Baby Snow Leopard

The week, a zoo in Tokyo allowed for the first public viewing of a baby snow leopard. His caretaker points out that the young cub still has blue eyes, which start to turn yellow at 4 months old, making the viewing extra special.

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Cat Brushes His Teeth

There's A Cat In There Somewhere

Kitty Loves the Sun and the Sun Loves Him

The Great Satan's Cat

Is there no end to the madness? Those terrorists have gone too far. They have now spoken ill of Bush's cat.

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Islamic militants posted sarcastic comments on an extremist Web site Tuesday ridiculing a recent announcement by First Lady Laura Bush that the family's cat had died.

But on Tuesday, one commentator, called Dark-Side, sarcastically urged followers to offer condolences for the cat.

"For God's sake, could someone tell us where the wake is to be held?" the online commentator wrote.

The first lady's office said Monday that the family's 18-year-old cat, named India, died Sunday at the White House.

'They'll Fight to the Death For Their Freedom"

Pound for pound the Scottish wildcat is one of the most impressive predators in the world; intelligent, fearless, resourceful, patient, agile and powerful they are genuine superpredators and until as recently as the 1950's were believed to be man killers.

http://www.scottishwildcats.co.uk/wildcat.html

Kitty

Our cat. ==^..^==




Kitty and my boy. The TV is showing a commercial for "Evan Almighty."

Kitty was abandoned at a shelter in very poor health. (They called him "Gate", because he was left at the gate.) Today, he is a lively and loving cat who loves attention. I think he may be part Somali.

Kitty loves the sun and the sun loves him. Here is Kitty sun-bathing.

Mean Kitty

Hey, little Sparta, what is with all the fight?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qit3ALTelOo

Origin of Domestic Cats

So along comes these smarty-pants scientists to tell us using DNA that the ancestors of our felines that entertain or supervise our homes came from the Middle Eastern wildcat "lybica" 10,000 years or more ago. As humans began to cultivate grain and establish grain bins in the Fertile Crescent, so the theory goes, wildcats ingratiated themselves into human communities to keep down the pest problem.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-sci-cats29jun29,1,2077971.story?track=rss

I toured Longwood Gardens outside of Philadelphia last week, a beautiful botanical garden established by the DuPont fortune. I was charmed to see that they have on their payroll a number of cat employees, who are there to keep pests in check. They seemed unusually content, friendly, and well-fed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwood_Gardens

Of course Kipling nailed the real reason why cats decided to make humans their pets in "The Cat Who Walked By Himself".

http://www.boop.org/jan/justso/cat.htm

"But the Cat keeps his side of the bargain too. He will kill mice and he will be kind to Babies when he is in the house, just as long as they do not pull his tail too hard. But when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild Trees or on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone."

How to Give a Pill to a Cat

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