Think of your cat when you decide to turn the central heating thermostat down

Couple of Siamese cats need the central heating thermostat turned up in winter! Screenshot.

Just a little reminder that cats love heat. A lot of home and pet owners or renters might want to try and minimise their heating bill by turning down the thermostat as recommended. This will help in the battle against climate change too.

It is good idea in general as you can turn the thermostat down a degree or two and wear some warm clothes to make up the difference. Money saved at a stroke or the turn of a thermostat knob.

But what about the cats? Yes, they have coats to keep themselves warm but the Siamese has a very close-lying single coat. It is not hugely effective in keeping them cosy warm in winter as is the coat of the Siberian for instance.

The Siamese will like the thermostat turned up. As this video shows:

It is a compromise situation. You have to consider the cats when you turn down the heating. Or a least ensure that there is a warm little cubby hole somewhere in the home for them. The space next to the boiler is ideal. Or the 'airing cupboard'. This is the place where the hot water cylinder is located if you don't have a combi boiler. Cats love and need to have access to these places in winter.

An alternative might be a little igloo bed and an electric heating pad underneath! Or is the going too far. I don't think so.

The video is from Mae's TikTok channel: link.

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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.

@ChoupettesDiary Tweets

I had to look up Choupette Lagerfeld's tweets on Twitter. In case you have not noticed the story of Choupette in the press, Choupette is a Siamese kitten. I think it is interesting from the standpoint that the person doing the tweets might be Karl Lagerfeld. It is probably a mixture of people who make the tweets including the two maids who look after Choupette. Of course it could be Choupette because she can use an iPad which brings me nicely to the first tweet from Choupette (they are in blue):

Gucci may have gotten a horse but can the horse use an iPad? I THINK NOT!

I am kitty no.1 who wears #Chanel no.5 (cc. @UYS_Blog) . (does she really wear perfume!?)

Daddy may not dress me up but little does he know how good I look when he leaves & I try on in his black blazer. ME-OWWW! (comment: Mr Lagerfeld thankfully does not agree with dressing up cats. There might be a temptation in Karl's case because he is one of the world's most famous designers. He likes black for himself and probably has tons of black blazers).

Victoria Beckham’s dog knows nothing about how to model clothing. Leave it to the real catwalkers: the felines. (a nice pun on 'catwalkers').

Maid, I request a swarovski crystal encrusted laser pointer to chase. Fetch me one MEOW! Karl is going to buy his Siamese a laser pointer toy. Seems that way.

Please consider allowing cats front row during the next fashion week. I promise to wear my best collar. Seems that Choupette might be attending the next fashion show.

Don't be confused, Daddy gushes more over me than he does Kate Middleton. There's only room for ONE princess in the Lagerfeld chateau. Sensible. Mr Lagerfeld prefers his cat to Kate Middleton (Duchess of Cambridge - William's wife).

I have chosen 2 test wat humans call "ombré". Not sure what this means but the text is below a picture of Choupette wearing claw caps (soft paws):

Choupette's claws capped.

Well, for someone like Mr Lagerfeld who is very particular it seems that capping the claws is a nice solution. I guess he does not want any of his clothes snicked or some of his creations snagged if they are lying around the home. Good one to end on. Choupette has 4,800 followers on Twitter. She has been a member for about 3 days!

Choupette has the appearance of a traditional Siamese cat incidentally.

Albino Siamese cat

 

Albino Siamese cat -Fanny - photo by stephen522 

This is an experimental breed of cat, one that is not established or fully recognized. The picture is of a cat that is not as far as I am aware part of any breeding program - correct me if I am wrong, but an albino Modern Siamese cat who lives with a person who has allowed me to publish the photo under a creative commons license - thanks. 

The Albino Siamese cat should have pale blue almost pinkish eyes and Fanny has. I have subsequently come to understand that albino cats should have pink eyes as shown in the pictures below although you can see a faint blue content. The cats below are not Siamese but here to show the pink eye of the albino cat.

Pictures: PoC

Fanny has a classic Modern Siamese appearance - see Modern Siamese cats and Traditional Siamese cats and Thai cats (Thai cats, as far as I am concerned, are a modern version of the traditional or classic Siamese cat). Albinoism can of course occur in any type of cat, purebred or not. It is not the same as the white created by either the white spotting gene or the dominant white gene - see White cat coats. An Oriental Shorthair cat that was an albino cat would look the same as or similar to the cat above. Genes that produce white fur can also result in a deaf cat and an odd-eyed cat. If you've got a picture of an albino cat can we see it please? (upload it here).