Maine Coon

American farm cats and wild raccoons—or so the legend goes. (Cats and raccoons do not mate.) Probably the Maine Coon resulted from the br...

Unpredictable heat

people find attractive but others find maddening. One thing that is unpredictable is the female’s estrus, or heat. Dogs predictably go into h...

Selkirk Rex

Devon Rex or the Cornish Rex . Like their shorthaired cousins, the Selkirks have a playful personality. The kittens go through a rather ...

Turkish Angora

This lovely breed was named after Angora, the old name for Ankara, now the capital city of Turkey. Like Persians, Angoras are prized for the...

Nurse Nightingale

love for their fellow humans can also be very fond of cats. One of the great humanitarians of history was Florence Nightingale (1820–1910),...

Javanese

Siamese ), and like the Balinese, was named for an Indonesian island (even though both breeds originated in the United States). The Javane...

Heat, phase II

maintain for up to three minutes without stopping. Bothersome as it is to us, it serves the obvious purpose of letting the tomcats know s...