Egyptian Mau

As noted elsewhere in this book, mau was the ancient Egyptian word for cat. (And it’s no coincidence that mau sounds a lot like meow.) The M...

Mr. Lewis’s step-cats

C. S. Lewis (1898–1963), a quiet professor of English literature, penned a popular science fiction trilogy, the well-loved Narnia series for ...

Devon Rex

Devon is a county in southwest England, near Cornwall, and by an odd coincidence Devon was the locale of a genetic mutation that produced a ...

That embarrassing duduk perkara ...

Humans have gotten rather blunt about discussing problems like male impotence, infertility, and other reproduction issues, and pet owners so...

Cornish Rex

Sphynx breed. Unlike the Sphynx, the Rex does not appear hairless, but has a thin coat—that is also curly. As the name indicates, the breed...

Sphynx

kitten was born. The key word is almost: although the Sphynx appears to be hairless, there is in fact a thin coat of very short suedelike...

Sterile tom, false pregnancy

One curiosity about neutered tomcats is that some of them still seek out a female in heat and go through the motions of mating, even though ...