We know that cats are great survivors. It seems that they have the ability to avoid death when other animals might succumb under similar lif...

Of course, in cat and dog ownership the caregivers often do their best to keep their pets happy. And that sentence appears to contradict the...

Scientists hope to be able to found out which variant of the Black Death bacterium caused one of the deadliest pandemics in human history. T...

This article is going to be short and it is an extension of another article I wrote a few moments ago. It's a nice theory (a suggestion ...

At the moment the news media is discussing the domestication of the cat. A good moment to present the story in a different light as indicate...

'Boar-cat' was an early name for a male cat. An alternative name was 'ram-cat'. Both were replaced by 'tom-cat' in t...

The French adage "plus ça change" comes to my mind immediately.  It is a phrase which means that things don't change because b...

This is a new study that may interest some people. It basically confirms earlier studies and/or hardens up the theory that wildcat domestica...

  This is I believe a representation of the Kilkenny hurling team, who are called the Kilkenny cats in recognition of the fighting spirit of...

It is said, with confidence nowadays, that the first domestic cats on the planet existed about 9500 years ago. It all started in an area tha...

A pictorial comparison between a Persian cat of 1901 in Britain and a Persian show cat of about 2009 in the United States. The difference sh...

Mrs Vyvyan of Dover, England, UK was the person who first brought the Siamese cat to the Western world from the Orient. The year: 1886. I am...

This is rather strange but some authors online are connecting this year's Respect Your Cat Day with Richard II and an edict that he made...

Most cat breeds originate in America. Here is a list of 80 breeds of pedigree domestic cat and the countries where they originated. The top ...

The question in the title is asking about the origin of the cat breed called the Cornish Rex, one of the Rex cats. The first Cornish Rex cat...

This is a short note to remind us that today's domestic cat is smaller and more varied in coat colour and pattern compared to the domest...

This contraption looks more like a baby's pram than a cat stroller, which I am sure it is. I do not think that they had invented cat str...

Common sense dictates that feral cats have been in the United States since domestic cats have been in the country. And domestic cats have be...

A bronze key handle unearthed in Leicester, not far from where the remains of Richard III were found in a car park, has provided the first e...

There may be others, currently unknown, but the oldest recorded pet cemetery in the world is in the Egyptian port of Berenice. The map shows...