A Michael Broad Blog
You have probably heard that the moneymaking machine called ‘Hello Kitty’ is not a cat as many people had believed but in fact a little girl five apples tall and weighing three apples. A teeny, tiny human. But the truth is – for me – that Hello Kitty is somewhere between cat and human. …
Conclusion: the latest incarnation of Puss in Boots is a male orange tabby-and-white random bred cat (moggy). The question in the title is wide open to interpretation as there are very many Puss in Boots characters. Old and recent history is littered with them. The original Puss in Boots appears to have been a …
Here are 14 facts about cartoon cats across the world and across history. The 20th century saw a plethora of cartoon cats being created for animated films which have been highly popular and which still are and can be seen on social media. During the 20th century a host of cartoon cats entertained us. …
Pusheen is a female, gray tabby, cartoon cat. There is no indication that she is a purebred cat. I will take it, therefore, that she is a random-bred cat or moggy, which is apt because she is meant to represent cats in general. She does things that, in general, young people like to do …
Hello Kitty is a female, anthropomorphised (humanised), Japanese Bobtail cat. She is all-white and her full name is Kitty White (‘Kiti Howaito’). In terms of the cat fancy, traditionally the Japanese bobtail is normally seen in a tortoiseshell-and-white coat. This is a coat of three colours (particolor) and not all-white. Although the Japanese Bobtail …
Tony the tiger was (and still is, I believe) a very well-known and often seen mascot for Frosted Flakes Cereal. Firstly, a bit about the cereal. The Cereal As we might know, it is a product created by the Kellogg Company called ‘Kelloggs Frosties’. It is a standard breakfast cereal made of corn flakes …
What cat breed is Garfield? Garfield is a ginger, tabby tomcat and he is not a pedigree, purebred cat and therefore is not a member of a cat breed. He is probably based on a tabby cat because of the markings (black lines) drawn on his back which resemble the mackerel tabby pattern and …
Bagpuss was a striped tabby moggy. In other words, a mackerel tabby random bred or mixed breed cat. He was not a purebred cat. It is rare for the creators of fictional cats to think of specific cat breeds. Bagpuss was meant to be a marmalade cat (red tabby) but the business that manufactured …
