This morning, I got an email reminding me to enter another virtual cat show. This one is kind of special:“Egypt’s newest cat club, the Pharaonic Cat Fanciers, had its first in-person show planned for November 2020. However, in the indomitable tradition of Egypt’s Pharoahs, the club r...
Cat breeders are not born, cat lovers are. Suffice to say, I spent my young life in search of any cat that just might want to come and live with us. They followed me home, they turned up on our door step, they walked through the snow. Any excuse I could find, I tried. Only to...
CategoriesCat Show Sunday,Daily Abyssinian,Swedish Sunday•Tagsaby-a-day,bjorn,burmilla,cat show,cfa,jacoby,me,memory,outside,snow,sweden,tessie,winter Aby-a-Day – 9 Januari: Scenes from a Swedish CFA show (Swedish Cat Show Saturday) Published on9 January 20213 Comments I never did post t...
The other day, Björn and I watched a movie I bought ages ago to have enough to get free shipping and then completely forgot about:Une Vie de Chat – A Cat in Paris. It’s a French film about a cat named Nico who leads a double life: Cat burglar’s partner by night, little gir...
From “Journey from the Blue Nile – A History of the Abyssinian Cat” by Aida Bartleman Zanetti: “During the Second World War English breeders were compelled by food shortages and the constant threat of being “bombed-out”, to drastically cut their stock in Abyssinian cats. Some were expor...
Aby-a-Day – 15 Augusti: A quick visit to the cat show Published on15 August 20193 Comments On Sunday, we spent some time at thecat show in Lempäälä(near Tampere) that Russell and Carol, along with my friend Pam, were judging. Because we had to catch the ferry back to Swede...