A Michael Broad Blog
There is a lot going on genetically with this cat. His name is Squirt. I don’t know who the owner is. But he is a flame pointed (red pointed) Siamese cat as well as being a dwarf cat. That makes him pretty unusual. The cross-eyed characteristic is typical of Siamese cats and I have …
Mission, Texas, on the US-Mexico border: In a disturbing photograph on the Yaqui Animal Rescue Facebook webpage, it seems as if someone is selling unwanted cats to customers for food at a flea market. ‘Food’ appears to mean snake food. There are 13 cats stuffed into a cage. They can barely move. Some of …
A small-scale study conducted in Norway came to the conclusion that one in ten Siamese cats were regularly aggressive towards people, compared to one in twenty random bred cats and one in sixty Persian cats. In this study the cats’ personalities were recorded by their owners rather than objectively observed by a third party. …
This is a first in the history of animal shelter adoption. The RSPCA, at various facilities in the southeast of England, were holding 55 Siamese cats for adoption. They were rescued from a single home in Croydon. Breeding by an individual had got out of control. Indeed around 55 Siamese cats were rescued but …
by Michael (London) Traditional Siamese cat – photo by fofurasfelinas (Flickr) see base of page for link This short story is about a Siamese cat who lived with a scientist, J.H. Hetherington, a professor at Michigan State University. I am not sure of the year but it was before the personal computer, so …
The Siamese is the most exotic looking domestic cat other than wild cat hybrids. For decades this cat breed has been the natural choice for celebrities and film stars. Here is a list of celebrities and film stars who have kept a Siamese cat: Paul Newman – his cat was called Louis XIV Cary …
Are you as surprised as me at this photo from a 1952 cat show? Is it cat cruelty? It is close to it. The person carrying the cats would probably say that he does it all the time and nothing ever happens. He’d probably say his cats like it. It is still wrong. Is …
In 1903, the cat fancy in England – probably the only cat fancy of the time – considered that the purebred, pedigree cat had a standard set of anatomical features that applied across the board. It made no difference if the cat was short or long haired or whatever cat breed. They all had …
