eyes stay shut for several days, and they also appear to be basically deaf at first, so newborns are as helpless as can be. If you’ve ever...
Blind, deaf and helpless
The oldest U.S. cat club
American Cat Association (ACA), formed in 1904 as the offspring of a cat club in Chicago. Typical of any human organization, disputes aro...
Alphabet soup time
Most cat owners have no interest in entering their pets in cat shows, but for those who do, seven different organizations in the United Stat...
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...
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