What affects us affects cats
It is nice to know that one of the world’s most celebrated novelists, Charlotte Brontë, was a cat lover. She lived between 1816 and 1855. She loved her cat whose name was Tiger. He played at her feet while she wrote Weathering Heights. When Charlotte Brontë was in Brussels in 1843, she wrote to …
It appears that Abraham Lincoln adopted his fourth son’s cat ‘Tabby’ and the cat became America’s First Cat. It is also reported that he adopted three lost kittens who had made a home in a tent in General Grant’s camp during the Civil War.
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 is reproduced below. You can see that she is portrayed ridding a donkey. The …
The truth is we don’t know where the Abyssinian cat is from but I have presented a theory and the starting point for it is Charles Darwin. We can trace this cat breed to India under the British Raj.
The cat was first domesticated in the Fertile Crescent which is a large crescent shaped area encompassing modern day countries such as Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Kuwait. The earliest domestic cat is believed to date from around 7,500 BC, found in Cyprus which is an island adjacent to the eastern sector of the Fertile Crescent.
Another similar question is: “When did cats come to Australia?” Because the continent of Australia was cut off from mainland Asia by water there was no migration of wild cats from Asia and hence no domestication of small wild cats on that continent. Australia was entirely free of any species of wild cat or …
The question does not specify ‘domestic cats’ therefore I must refer to all cat both wild and domestic. That said, on the internet, people habitually refer to domestic cats as ‘cats’. On my website I have a brilliant page on the Timeline of the Cat even though I say it myself! It is very …
Google’s top search result for the above search term is incorrect. The author on cattime.com says that Persian cats come from Persia (modern day Iran). The truth is twofold: We don’t know the ancient history of the Persian cat. Its name is possibly misleading and if Persian cats did ultimately come from Persia they …
