From whole foot to tiptoes

Roughly 20 millions years ago, the carnivore Pseudaelurus lived, and like modern cats, it walked on its toes instead of flat-footed. It posse...

Harrison Weir’s legacy

English artist and, as it happened, also a lover of cats. He is credited with organizing an 1871 cat show in London’s Crystal Palace that i...

The carnivore clan

You probably know that carnivores are animals that primarily eat a diet of meat. In scientific terms, the order Carnivora includes several fa...

Oriental Shorthair

original Siamese cats of centuries ago were not always the familiar cream color with points. Many of them were solid colors, and there were...

A word about “points”

legs and tail. Siamese kittens are born “pointless”; the points develop as they age. Over the years, several varieties of points have been ...

Passing on protection

Cats, like all mammals, produce milk for their young. What gets passed on to newborn kittens is not only nourishment, but protection as well...

Siamese

If there’s one breed of cat that the average person on the street recognizes, it has to be the Siamese (though Persian owners might not agre...