A Michael Broad Blog
People search using Google and other search engines to find an answer to the question, “Why are domestic cats so small?”. This article provides an answer. Domestic cats are not small in the grand scheme of things, by which I mean that when you compare their size to all other animals and not solely …
Here is a thumpingly large Maine Coon. You won’t see a larger domestic cat unless someone calls a tamed puma a domestic cat. The Maine Coon is the largest domestic cat breed (excluding F1 wild cat hybrids). Not only is he impressively large, I have never seen lynx typed ears with such long hair. …
This page, written for children, shows the sizes of cats of the world, wild & domestic. I show the weights of some domestic cat breeds and typical domestic cats together with the sizes of all the wild cat species. The size is based on weight but I also show lengths for all the wild …
By Tonya Price Jezebel is a formerly feral 20 week old kitten we live-trapped at the age of about 7 weeks. We obviously have no clue about her parentage, but she appears to be a garden variety American shorthair type. She has had no health issues other than a minor eye/upper respiratory infection at …
The Maine Coon is the largest cat breed recognized by the Cat Fanciers Association (CFA). Contents This page has been broken up into several pages to meet with Google Core Vital demands. Please click on the pagination links at the base of each section. The contents section does not work entirely but remains to …
by Laurentiu Paulet (Bucharest, Romania) Two British SH males Hi….I just read your article about cat weight comparison and I found that you consider the British SH’s to be heavy/big at a weight about 5.8 kilos. This is quite inaccurate. British SH’s are much much larger. I saw BSH males about 10 kilos and …
by Alla Zinatullina (Scranton, PA, USA) I got my cat, Shmoo, from a friend. The mamma cat refused to feed Shmoo; maybe because he was the runt of the litter or maybe because she simply did not like him. Shmoo was 4 weeks old and fit in my palm. Shmoo was the first pet …
by Joyce Sammons (Hodges, SC, USA) Spot Spot was the largest cat my mother and I ever cared for. He just showed up one day in late July 1981. We were preparing for our yearly trip to Myrtle Beach, SC and mama just wasn’t in the mood for a new cat at this time. …
