What affects us affects cats
by Finn Frode (Copenhagen, Denmark) Picture from ‘Illustreret Tidende’ c. 1860 (WikiMedia Commons) Now is the season of Fastelavn in Denmark and traditionally a very sad time for the black cats. In Roman Catholic countries the days leading up to Ash Wednesday and Lent is usually the time for carnival. Denmark went protestant in …
THE FIRST HOUSE CATS – Photo montage: copyright Ruth The first time people had cats was about 9,000 years ago. People know this because when a cat died 9,000 years ago it was buried with its owner. This happened in Cyprus, which is in the Mediterranean Sea. The people of Egypt about 4,000 years …
by Michael Simon the cat was a ships cat on HMS Amethyst during the Yangtze incident 1949. I discuss this gorgeous little black and white cat more below but would like to clear up a Google confusion. Today, there is an extremely well known cat that features in cartoons created by an Englishman. This …
Here are some stories of tiger hunting from the past; from a time when it was considered “normal” to hunt tigers for the fun of it. They are extracts from books in the public domain and courtesy of Google – thanks Google. I find these stories both fascinating and very disturbing. When looking back …
Siamese cat history, in detail, is set out on this page using many sources and some patience. You’ll need patience to read it all too as it is quite long! But then it is meant to be as definitive as I can make it. But please note that these are my carefully considered views. I …
Lion History Lion history.. This is going to be short! This is because the history of the lion is not that well known according to a book that I am using as a reference source: The Big Cats and their fossil relatives ISBN 978-0-231-10229-2. I’ll quote, “The earliest record of the lion is at …
The so called first Abyssinian cat, Zula Zula is shown below. The picture was created in 1874. I don’t know who created it. The timing of its creation fits quite nicely into the history of the Abyssinian cat. Zula is meant to be the cat that was brought back to England by an officer …
Credits This is an article about domestic cat history written in simple language that is designed to be used, primarily, by students. It is meant to be an overview. For that reason, any part of this page may be reproduced “as is” (faithfully) under a creative commons license provided a link back is provided, …
