What affects us affects cats
Burmese and Birman cats have the longest life expectancy of purebred cat according to a recently published study conducted between 2019 and 2021 in the UK. The researchers don’t tell us specifically or in detail why they have the longest life expectancy of the purebred cats and even to the extent where their lifespan …
A list of 23 facts about the Birman cat for a quick overview of this popular purebred cat including history, appearance, temperament and health.
Owner goes into nursing home and no one can take her elderly Birmans so they were relinquished with great heartache at a shelter. Euthanasia was discussed. We don’t know the cats’ now former owner but I would gently suggest that she is an elderly lady who had to go into a nursing home and …
The world has learned that Karl Lagerfeld died yesterday aged 85. He died of pancreatic cancer and was taken to hospital in Paris on Monday night and died in the morning. He was unmarried and childless. His partner Jacques de Bascher died in 1989 aged 38. Update, the next day, It is rumoured that …
I have written about Tom and Jerry Syndrome before after a visitor shared her experiences with her cat who is sensitive to sharp, high pitched sounds which causes a seizure or fit. The sounds vary quite a lot from rustling packaging to jangling keys. You can even make sharp sounds to cause a fit …
Fashion’s top cat is Karl Lagerfeld’s Birman cat, Choupette. She is three years of age. Lagerfeld describes his cat as the most famous cat in the world and the richest. He says that she’s like a human. He is besotted and that’s fine. Lagerfeld claims that his pet made 3 million from two modelling …
This is a page on the Birman cat written for kids and people who like plain English and good pictures. General Info The Birman is a breed of cat that is meant to have been brought from Burma to France in 1919. Burma is now called Myanmar. It is a country that is in …
In analysing the differences between the cat breeds using DNA testing, I am compelled to come to the conclusion that it’s all a mashup. Nothing is what it seems. Everything is blurred and grey without clean distinctions. The breeds, themselves, have a different and distinct appearance – they have to, to be a cat …
