What affects us affects cats
Bagpuss was a striped tabby moggy. In other words, a mackerel tabby random bred or mixed breed cat. He was not a purebred cat. It is rare for the creators of fictional cats to think of specific cat breeds. Bagpuss was meant to be a marmalade cat (red tabby) but the business that manufactured …
She lives in Russia and her name is Liznya. She is a grey tabby cat. The photography of her on Instagram is appalling. My apologies to the owners but it truly is. It lacks definition and there is a huge tungsten colour cast (yellow) over almost every photograph. I have photo-edited the pages to …
Here is a brief note about Wilberforce one of 10 Downing Street’s resident mouser cats and companions. He was a large black-and-white cat. And he proved to have greater staying power than the prime ministers he served under. He outlasted several of them. He carried out his duties during the occupancies of Edward Heath, …
There must be a common reason why some people are obsessed with extreme appearance in animals and in humans. There must be something wrong with humankind if there are people who think it is clever to breed cats to an extreme appearance or change their appearance in an extreme way. The two objectives or …
This is a picture of the first stamp to feature a cat. It is a stamp issued in Spain in 1930 to commemorate the first, non-stop, transatlantic flight of Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974). Lindbergh’s cat companion, Patsy, accompanied him on some (many?) of his flights. Ironically, Patsy did not accompany him on the flight that …
Without detail, we are told that Grumpy Cat A.K.A. Tardar Sauce died of “complications from a urinary tract infection on May 14, 2019” at the age of seven. Her lifespan was similar to that of Lil Bub (8). She entertained millions and was perhaps the most celebrated of all celebrity cats in the history …
Lil Bub died in her sleep on December 1, 2019 after suffering from an aggressive bone infection according to her owner Mike Bridavsky, a writer and producer. Bone infections are most often bacterial and not viral. In the unlikely event that you have not heard of Lil Bub she was the cute, little tabby …
I list five possible reasons why your cat’s tongue sticking out. One concerns oral health, and other concerns cooling down. Two others concern extreme breeding and the fifth is called the blep!
