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“Cat on its brain”

Here’s an old British weather tidbit: “Cat on its brain, it’s going to rain.” This expression refers to a cat’s nap pose: curled up so the t...

cat , who ever since has had the M—for Mary, or Madonna — on the forehead.

Cats are generally well thought of in eastern Asia, yet there is an old story that casts the cat in a badlight. According to the story, when...

people who don’t want an animal entering (or leaving) a room with no sound at all. For us cat lovers, sneakiness is part of the total appea...

American girl who saved the life of the English settler John Smith, who was about to be executed by the girl’s father, a chief named Powhat...

silk , and the Chinese eagerly brought the elegant rodent hunters back home. Among the Chinese of centuries ago, the cat became a symbol of...

people of Europe began to think of cats as “those things that the wicked Muslims are so fond of.”

tradition goes back centuries, recalling that dogs in the ancient Middle East were loathsome street scavengers, despised by humans. (You se...

fire while they screamed in agony. The ancient ritual persisted for centuries in some parts of Europe and was conducted by two very differe...

between the Muslims and the Christians, resulted in Christians learning about Muslim culture, including becoming aware of the Muslims’ lov...

We are fortunate to possess copies of laws mandated in the tenth century by Howel the Good, the ruler of Wales. Howel’s law code stated that...

people , associated cats with fertility, and so a mass sacriﬁce of cats to the gods of fertility had a certain odd logic to it. We still hav...

island was invaded by the Angles, the Germanic tribe that gradually turned Britannia into Angle-land, or England.

rodents and rabbits by burrowing into their prey’s hiding places. People in the ancient world often used them as rodent exterminators, but ...

It’s always touching to look at the grave of a child, and certainly this is true of a very ancient grave-stone found in France. Dating from ...

Americans were not the ﬁrst people to have a Statue of Liberty. To the ancient Romans, Liberty was worshipped as a goddess. Appropriately, t...

Yes, the Roman armies that marched through and conquered much of Europe and northern Africa carried cats with them and kept them at their fo...

The early Romans used felis to refer to the domestic cat, but in time the word cattus replaced it. When did the change occur? We can’t be ce...

You might recall the adorable daughter nicknamed “Kitten” on the old TV sitcom Father Knows Best. Well, “Kitten” was around as a pet name fo...

Some things never change. If you have a birdbath in your yard, you’ve no doubt seen your cat hungrily eye the birds in it and probably try t...