The domestic cats of ancient Egypt were all brown, mackerel tabbies whereas the bronze statues of cats from that era had plain coats. The statues look like modern day Abyssinian cats both in terms of their coat and body confirmation … Continue reading →
Yes, there are clear indications from a video on YouTube and a still photo online, both of which are shown here, that Lenin liked cats. In the photograph below Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) leader of the Communist Party and founder of … Continue reading →
St Nicholas of the Cats is a Byzantine convent in Cyprus which in 1996 housed only five nuns and a feline population of over 200 cats. This convent has a long and interesting history. The convent is situated near the … Continue reading →
Well, Persian cats should come from Persia which is now Iran. Of course we are referring to the original Persian cats because nowadays you can say that Persians mainly come from America where they are extensively bred. For decades Persians … Continue reading →
Aelwaer’s Cat is a fictional cat associated with or ‘owned’ by Saint Aelwaer who was a demonic anti-saint and mother of all vices. She was a ‘Virgin Mary in reverse’. She is portrayed in a Dutch woodcut of 1550. It … Continue reading →
This painting, La Toilette by François Boucher (1703–1770), has a cat in it – of course! The appearance of the cat is interesting to me. But first a bit about the painting. Boucher La Toilette François Boucher was French (born … Continue reading →
We can thank a teaching and research assistant at the University of Sarajevo, Emir O. Filipović, for this photo of what must be domestic cat paw prints made in ink across a 15th century manuscript from Croatia. They are around … Continue reading →
This is a comment from the Flickr website by the photographer who took the photograph above of the gravestone of “The Church Cat” at St Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol, UK: “I’d looked for it a few times and then given … Continue reading →
A 16th century artillery master who worked for German princes and fought against the armies of the Ottoman Empire, Franz Helm, advised readers of a Heidelberg University manuscript who wanted to capture an enemy’s castle to “obtain a cat from … Continue reading →
The black and white cat has been around for ever. These pictures show us almost identical looking cats from 1603 and 2008. A time span of 405 years. That is about the entire time the domestic cat has been in … Continue reading →
