A Michael Broad Blog
To fill out the question, it is asking if tortoiseshell cats can have some white fur in addition to the usual black plus orange tabby and the answer is yes but in the United States they refer to tortoiseshell cats with some white fur as ‘calico cats’. In the UK the cat fancy has …
This is the tweet (plus my comment) accompanying a photo of a Philippine veterinarian proudly showing off a male calico cat’s private parts. Not so private. A bit undignified but I guess he felt it necessary to prove that he had come across a rare male calico cat. They are as rare as tortoiseshell …
This is very much a tongue in cheek feline story as far as I am concerned but others will have a different opinion. In the first video below, with the tiny screen size, we see a predominantly black cat, Boo, pushing another cat (a tortie-and-white), Peach, into a swimming pool. This has been called …
This calico (tortie-and-white) mother cat, watched by her owner (a bit irritating), tries to rescue her kitten from a tree but fails. She failed because she decided that she was unable to get a sufficiently good bite on the scruff of the neck of her kitten. I think she decided that her kitten was …
By Suzy Hi….I have acquired a very beautiful and delightful-temperamented 8 year old female cat in October 2012 called TigerLily. She was probably pre-owned by two or more owners before me. She is an indoor cat with excellent house manners, who after nine months has managed to explore her new big garden but still …
By Elisa Black-Taylor Today I’d like to tell all of my friends here about my sweetest cat. MandyLane, or Mandy came to us as part of our first rescue the Friday before Thanksgiving in 2010. I still remember seeing that ugly little face on the Greenville County Pet Rescue euthaniasia list, where she was …
by Michael (London, UK) Meet the cat: MAYA – a calico cat – photo by fofurasfelinas (Flickr) Calico cat behavior has been described by a well known cat commentator as, “sassy, spunky, and very independent. On the other hand, calicoes are sweet, loving, and loyal cats….” But is this really true? And what does …
