A Michael Broad Blog
Here are 18 facts about the Asian Shaded or Burmilla. This is not a well-known cat. I hope that you find the information useful. The Burmilla is part of what the Governing Council of the Cat Fancy (GCCF) call the “Asian Group”. Cats of the Asian group were the first to receive a breed …
Here are 19 succinct facts about the mysterious African golden cat. There’s more detailed information in other articles at the base of the page. Local people call the African golden cat the “boy of the leopard” or “the leopard’s brother” because they believe that it follows the leopard. Local people believe this cat species …
Here are 20 facts about the jaguarundi. The intention is to keep things short and concise for ease of reading and quickness of learning. As at 2002, little was known about the jaguarundi. There is still much to learn. The experts have had difficulty in classifying this small wild cat species taxonomically as it …
B. Tan in their work: The status of felids in China, dated 1984, state that two male Asiatic golden cats weighed 14.5 kg and 15.75 kg respectively.
‘Young tigers continue to put on muscle until they are about five years old’. Those are the words of Fiona Sunquist in Wild Cats of the World, an excellent and reliable book by her and her husband Mel. They strongly imply that tigers become adults at around five years of age. This is a …
This is a really excellent picture of a rusty-spotted cat, which is the world’s smallest cat either wild or domestic. They look really cute but we must remind ourselves that they are a wild cat and therefore do not behave like a cute domestic cat. Below the picture are 13 selected facts about this …
This is a great picture of this medium-sized wild cat species called the jungle cat (Latin, scientific name Felis chaus) together with 15 selected facts. The picture was taken by Lynn Griffiths and is published on the Flickr website. Below are 15 facts about this cat which is less often discussed than other cat …
The American Shorthair is described as “the beautiful working cat of the United States”. The experts say that cats of this breed should “feel like handling a sack of oats”. Make of that what you want but I take from that statement that the cat is solid and perhaps heavier than you might think. …
