Wichian Mat (Moon Diamond) Auspicious Cat | PoC. This is a cross-post to promote a page (not a blog page) on the Wichian Mat which is the pointed good luck cat (auspicious cat). The cat brings good fortune provided the cat’s caretaker looks after him/her really well. If you’d like read about this cat …
Timeline of the Cat | PoC. Please click on the above link to see a cat timeline. This is a cross-post from a page on this site to blog post. “Pages” don’t come up as a blog so the page is not relayed to subscribers whereas this post will be. I wanted to cross-post …
Domineering Men Do Not like Cats | Blog About Cats. As long ago as the middle of the eighteenth century, almost 300 years ago, it was realised by the more observant people in society that domineering men do not like cats. If you click on the link above I expand on this theme in …
Domestic cats‘ pelts were used to line gloves with fur in 13th century Britain. Britain is the most civilised country in the world 😉 . This means that we have already been through a lot of the bad stuff that other countries are experienced today. We have passed through that phase in the development …
The jaguar, and perhaps more importantly the black jaguar (black panther), was seen as other-worldly and envied (I guess) by early civilizations who lived amongst this impressive wild cat in Mexico and Central, South America. It has the attributes that humans don’t possess but desire. It was worshipped. The jaguar symbolizes power, aggressiveness, courage, …
My motivation for creating the spreadsheet above, which shows the history of cat food in chronological order, was to see when dry cat food was first manufactured and also to see whether there had been any attempts by the manufacturers to improve its quality. By improving its quality I mean whether they have attempted …
Declawing does not exist! There is no way to remove a cat’s claws, because each claw is embedded in bone. We should call it what it is: deboning, detoeing or defingering. Any of those terms describe the amputation of each last phalanx of a cat’s paws. Yet we call it declawing! The person who …
The first bag of clay-based cat litter (labelled “Kitty Litter” in manuscript), was given away at a store which was local to where the inventor Mr Edward Lowe lived. Mr Lowe originally suggested that the store sell his bags of cat litter at 65c per bag. Apparently, the owner of the shop laughed in …
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