Snowshoe

American Shorthair and you get this lovely creature with light blue eyes and white paws, from which the name is derived. Snowshoes are stoc...

Could we have some privacy?

mother cat as she gives birth, but the mother cat doesn’t want or need supervision, and too much intrusion can disturb her to the point whe...

European Shorthair

American Shorthair is the “generic cat” of the United States, the European Shorthair is what most Europeans think of as the typical househo...

It’s called “queening”

female cat—technically, a queen cat—is quite capable of giving birth all by herself, as is true of most animals. Normally she seeks out a ...

Munchkin

general idea, but not the whole story, of this cat: short, but not a real dwarf, for the only thing dwarf about the Munchkin is the leg bon...

American Bobtail

Japanese Bobtail has been around for ages, the American Bobtail is a fairly new breed. The parent cat for the breed was a mutation, a bobta...

Dual pregnancy?

Yes, really: a female cat can carry more than one litter. It doesn’t happen in humans, but it sure happens in cats. Here’s the sequence: in ...