What affects us affects cats
Ancient Greece and Rome is called ‘Classical Antiquity’ The era covers the years: 500 B.C.E. (or BC) – 400 C.E. (or AD) That is a period spanning 900 years and up to 2,512 years ago. The ancient Greeks and Romans (‘the ancients’) dominated the Mediterranean. We know that people of the era kept ‘pets’ …
The origins and history of the Turkish Angora are interesting and perhaps a paradigm case of how all ‘discovered’ breeds started out and how many of the cat breeds still have their non-pedigree, non-purebred counterparts. The street cats that were the foundation cats of the discovered breeds are still there on the streets. They …
Is the hole in the door below the astronomical clock of Exeter Cathedral, Exeter, England, UK the earliest existing cat flap? The trouble is it is not exactly a cat flap because there is no flap. It is a cat entrance and exit if we are going to be boringly accurate. But this cat …
There are nine theories on why we have the phrase ‘a cat has nine lives’! Just joking. But there are several theories and I have mentioned a few in the past. I have another one today so I thought I would collate them on this page and try and formulate my own theory. I …
Cats’ meat men were in the pet food home delivery business during the 18th and 19th centuries and into the 20th century. We seem to have taken a backward step as even milkmen have all but died out in Britain. There were a lot more street vendors in London, England in times past than …
Here are some cat history pictures. Please click on them to see large versions. Thanks. A mixed bag of pictures showing the cat, wild or domestic, in a historical context. They were gathered together from various sources on the internet. They are either in the public domain, published under creative commons licenses or with …
I am concerned about the Barbary lion. It is said to be an extinct subspecies of the lion that lived in an area of Africa called the Barbary coast, which is that area of north Africa (Morocco to Egypt) that has its coastline on the Mediterranean1. MAP of Barbary Coast2 Genetic Analysis One immediate …
by Michael Let us cast our minds back to about ten thousands years ago, when we lived as hunter-gatherers. There were many wild cats of all species at that time. There were lions in Greece until AD 100 for example. There must have been the first domestic cat. At one point in time there …
