Two true Ukrainian Warrior Cats (video)

I believe this is Shaybyk one of many warrior cats fighting with the Ukrainian soldiers and making their lives a little better. Image is a screenshot from the video below.

The first Ukrainian warrior cat I'd like to mention is "Syrsky the Cat" and he is named after the Ukrainian Army Land Forces Commander Oleksandr Syrsky who's known as one of Ukraine's most effective combat leaders. The naming was a coincidence! 😇

Syrsky the Cat's human caregiver or fighting human companion is Roman Sinicyn, a Ukrainian army officer.

Roman Sinicyn says this about his adorable cat:

Most of the locals evacuated, so the cats took over. We caught Syrsky and food-persuaded him to stay with us. He helped to solve our mouse problem. The mice run over you while you sleep, they get into your stuff. They chew everything. We had to throw out two boxes of our packed rations because of mice. I took him home when we left that position. Now he lives with my family in Kyiv, but he continues to help the army. We used his social media popularity to collect €147,000 for Mini Shark UAV complexes for adjusting artillery.

Shaybyk the lover

Here is a cute video of another true Warrior Cat. Not from the Erin Hunter Warrior Cats series of books and role play games on the internet but the real thing working with Ukrainian fighters to make their lives more bearable in the trenches on the front in defending their country against the invading Russian army.

Shaybyk is another fighting Ukrainian trench cat killing hundreds of mice. I understand that Oleksandr Liashuk is his human companion. He says this about his cat:

Shaybyk had the biggest charisma. It was getting cold, so I took him with me one night into my sleeping bag. And that’s when I fell in love with that cat. He’s not just my best friend, he’s my son. Once we were at the position in the forest and he caught 11 mice in one day. Sometimes [he] brings mice to my sleeping bag.

There are others. The two mentioned are examples of how Ukrainian fighters are making friends with stray cats who are proving to be invaluable in trench warfare.

Here is a video of, I believe, Shaybyk:

Let's praise these cats and all others serving their country. They are in danger.

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P.S. please forgive the occasional typo. These articles are written at breakneck speed using Dragon Dictate. I have to prepare them in around 20 mins.

How many cats are there in warriors?

It seems that there are over 700 cats in the warrior cats series of books. I am a bit vague on the exact number but one brave website has listed all the cat characters. There appears to be 737 but you can decide for yourself by going to this page of the Wikia website.

Obviously the book series is growing so the number of cat characters are also growing. Until the authors stop writing there will not be a definitive number of cats in the warrior cat series.

If you like the warrior cat books you might like to meet some other fans on this page: Warrior Cats.

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Norwegian Forest Cat as warrior cat

Norwegian Forest Cats. This cat breed likes water so they might belong to the RiverClan - photo: copyright gari.baldi under Creative commons license.

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I had a cat who was a warrior cat. She was also a forest cat - half Norwegian Forest Cat. She died at the hands of mankind by a car whilst crossing the road to go in the woods and fields that were so attractive to her just as is was for Rusty in the Warrior Cats book. Her name was Missy and I miss her terribly. She is with Starclan. She would have been well received as a true warrior cat of great and athletic skill.

If she was (and she may have been when she went into the forest) a true Warrior Cat in the fashion described in the book, she would probably have been a member of Windclan as she was loyal and a bit nervous but a fantastic runner and climber. She was made to climb.

We took her to the Cotswolds (a very nice area in England with old fashioned yellow stone and quaint houses) with us on holiday and within moments of arriving she was on the roof of the house having climbed out of an upstairs window. She calmly walked along the crest of the roof, not a care in the world.

A feral cat is essentially a warrior cat and in truth has a very tough and a short life of about 3 years, a tiny fraction of the life of a domestic cat living with a person (about 15 + years). A feral cat is neither a wild cat nor domesticated. She has to live in that in between land, between mankind's world and the wildcat's world. The in between world is a hostile world. Humans put them there but don't like them and kill them. Yes, many hundreds of thousands and indeed millions are killed by lethal injection each year because the rescue centers are too full.


A very Warrior Cats looking scene, the forest, the moonlight - photo coyright Guacamole-Goalie

The Warrior Cats book series describes cats that have genuine domestic cat characteristics, of course. Rusty is a ginger cat. Ginger is solid red in cat fancy language. Ginger is diluted red. See Faolan a ginger Persian of great distinction. Bluestar is a blue/grey cat. This is diluted black. A classic cat breed that is blue/grey is the Russian Blue or the Chartreux. These cats have to be this color and no other color. The British Shorthair classic color is also blue/grey but you'll see her in a wide range of other colors too.

Graypaw is also called Graystripe. A gray stripe indicates a tabby cat. Tabbies come in a wide range of colors. The classic brown is the most useful for camouflage and the most common therefore as it aids survival. The Amerian Bobcat has a brown tabby coat as does the Scottish Wildcat.

Sandpaw is a ginger and white cat and a great hunter. As mentioned ginger is diluted red (solid) and the white (solid and white) is introduced by the Piebald gene which masks the diluted solid color.

Tigerclaw is a classic brown tabby. If you look at his face he has an "M" on his forehead, the mark of a tabby cat and he has stripes. Tabby cats are used in the creation of a toy Tiger cat the Toyger.

The three writers (now four) who are "Erin Hunter" are cat lovers and it shows, although one Victoria Holmes prefers horses and dogs (but still of course likes cats). She is the ideas person and Cherith Baldry and Kate Cary do the writing. Cherith currently lives with Sorrel a tortoiseshell and Bramble a dark brown medium haired tabby (if the picture is accurate he looks a bit like a Maine Coon but I know Bramble isn't).

When Kate was a child her father gave her a black kitten and she has lived with cats ever since. Here are some pictures of black Persian cats. The cats described by the authors are mixed breed cats.

If you're part of a WC forum try visiting the Warrior Cats page and vote for it (only the top 30 or so are listed for voting and the top 10 are listed based on votes received). It is a kind of meeting place for Warrior Cats to vote and promote their favorite RPG website.

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