Cannibal moms

mother cat eats the afterbirth. She also eats any stillborn kittens. This offends our human sensibilities, but there is some logic to it: t...

California Spangled

house cat, specifically a spotted wild look. California Spangleds have been available only since 1986, though they are already acquiring a r...

The clean-up

People who have witnessed the birth of kittens admit that it isn’t pretty. For one thing, there are no midwives or nurses available, so the ...

Chartreux

You might guess from the name that this is a French breed. The Chartreux does have a long history in that country, including being known as ...

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...