Abyssinian

Abyssinia was the old name for Ethiopia in north-eastern Africa. Soldiers returning from there to Britain in the 1860s brought back some of ...

Cardinal Richelieu

Armand Jean du Plessis (1585–1642) is better known as Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister of France’s King Louis XIII and just as autocra...

Burmese

Think of velvet and you have the basic image of the Burmese. The coat is glossy, short and dense, and found in most solid colors. Though B...

Japanese Bobtail

Japanese Bobtail, a naturally occurring breed from (where else?) Japan, where they have long been considered good luck. True to their name,...

Why toms kill kittens

mating bite in the neck—the bite that an adult female cat in heat endures easily enough, but which is often fatal to a tiny kitten.

Singapura

As you might guess from the name, this breed originated in Singapore in Asia, where this cat is regarded as the “drain cat,” an unwanted str...

Cannibal toms?

tomcat has impregnated a female, he is pretty much out of the picture, and childrearing in cats is the work of the mother alone. In fact, t...