What affects us affects cats
This cute cat who looks like a pedigree British Shorthair and she has a spiral tabby coat when curled up resting. When standing the coat would be deep, and high contrast straight lines along the torso which is unusual. The coat has been described as a cinnamon bun. The picture caught my eye for …
There is an cat interesting story from sciencemag.org. It concerns Madagascar’s mysterious, small wild cat, which looks very much like a large, domestic tabby cat. This is unsurprising because the experts believe that around 1000 years ago (900 C.E.) or earlier Arabian ships may have transported domestic cats to Madagascar. There appears to be …
I am a fan of firefighter-cat pictures! And this is a very nice one. One of the best. The guys are happy to have rescued a couple of tabby cats from a smoke filled apartment in Perth’s Central Business District. Smoke was seen at the apartment on Milligan Street in morning at about half …
Striped tabby cats are also called mackerel tabbies in reference to the skin of the fish by the same name. This is the ancient type of tabby pattern close to the one we see in the ancestral wild cat species. The word ‘tabby’ is thought to be derived from ‘Atabi’, type of silk manufactured …
The answer to this question is straightforward and has been answered before. It needs to be re-addressed because people still ask the question. The picture below answers it. It has been decided by experts that almost 10,000 years ago a North African wildcat decided to befriend a farmer, perhaps in an area which we …
Tabby cats are called tabby cats because of the description of their coat which is derived from the name of watered silk called ‘Atabi’ from the Attabiah district of Baghdad, Iraq. The silk has a similar appearance to the mackerel tabby coat.
The leopard is known for his spots. In fact they are “rosettes” (hollowed out, irregular shaped spots). Therefore a domestic cat that looks like a leopard must have spots. When a domestic cat has spots which are similar to the spots of a leopard then they more or less have to be a spotted …
Leanne has sent me the photos of these gorgeous tabby cats and has included her own cat Lenny. I told her as he is so beautiful I would make him the centrefold cat of the poster. She replied: ‘yes my Lenny is beautiful, he’s very shy though and doesn’t really like people, he’d be …
