What affects us affects cats
There is some evidence to suggest that the original Abyssinian cat was a jungle cat hybrid that was imported from the west coast of India to Abyssinia in Africa and thence to England (possibly via Egypt) by an English army officer. The wild cat hybrid evidence comes from the distinguished scientist, Charles Darwin. In …
This is a nice little snippet of Turkish history that goes all the way back to the Ottoman Empire and concerns the cats of Constantinople (now Istanbul). The comments on PoC by The Turkish Angora Association have given me the impression that the Turkish people genuinely like their community cats, which, by the way, …
The world famous Persian cat, which is said to be the world’s most popular purebred, pedigree cat, has no connection with the original Persian cat. The connection has long since disappeared into the machinations of the cat fancy. Everything about the cat fancy’s version of the Persian is different to the original. Genetically it …
Syria is in the middle of the “fertile crescent”, the area where the wildcat was first domesticated about 9,500 years ago, it is believed. Syria is also the place where, at the date of this post, terribly cruel things are happening to people and to animals in a horrible civil war that the international …
Cat declawing started around the middle of the 20th century by dogfighters who appeared to have declawed cats themselves and then thrown the cats to their dogs as “live bait” to warm them up for an impending fight. Then veterinarians appeared to have cottoned on to it, renamed it “onychectomy” to make it sound …
Charlie is a 17 pound three-legged black cat. He has character, a Siamese-like face and his voice has a lot of the characteristics of the voice of Siamese cat. He is definitely not Siamese. He just has some Siamese in him. My vet agrees. Anyway, it is fairly obvious. He can be a bit …
This page sets out eight theories on the history and origins of the Maine Coon cat in America. Raccoon Hybrid A raccoon mated with a domestic cat to produce the Maine Coon. There was a time, not long ago, when this theory was still believed by some people: “In the Northeast, it is thought …
[slideshow_deploy id=’57305′] Can you tell the difference between the Maine Coons and Persians in these vintage pictures in the slide show above? I am sure you can but there ain’t much in the difference. There are five Persians and three Maine Coons. Persians were more common than the Maine Coon in 1903. A Maine …
