Being a nineteen year old cat, who has travelled through Africa from England and settled - various times - in various locations in South Africa, I feel that I have a lot of advice to offer cat owners world wide.
Please treat the content of this page as a Free Educational Course into Feline Species life requirements.
I will also be publishing anecdotes by various persons.
Remember that us cats have an enormous amount of love, wisdom and understanding.
Treat us with the respect we give you and YOU will be the winner.
Odd things animals. All dogs look up at you. All cats look down at you. Only a pig looks at you as an equal. Winston Churchill
There are no ordinary cats. Colette.
A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it. Jerome K Jerome
17 July 2011 - No home should be without the Cat
Aspeshly where there's Mouses
It never goes away, the Cat,
But stays where ths house is. Anthony Henderson Euwer.
17 July 2011 - Two cats live as cheaply
as one, and their owner has
twice as much fun. Lloyd Alexander
3 July 2011 - I have found my love of cats most helpful in understanding women. - John Simon
3 July 2011 - Most judges are cat lovers. - Carl Van Vechten
19 June 2011 - Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. - Jean Burden.
20 June 2011 - A cat pent up becomes a lion. - Italian Proverb
5 May 2011 - But buds will be roses,
and kittens, cats,
- more's the pity. - Louisa May Alcott
5June 2011 - Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission to the impending visitation, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance. - Saki
29 May 2011 - "The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat" - Jules Reynard
23 May 2011 - "They cannot purr. Cat psychologists suggest that this gap in the human vocal repertoire is due to their lack of inner confidence and serenity." Secret thoughts cats have about humans. By Celia Haddon.
23 May 2011 - "Their disabilities - no tail, ears that won't move and a fixed upright position - mean that their body language vocabulary is small." Secret thoughts cats have about humans. By Celia Haddon.
19 May 2011 - "A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rush about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there." Agnes Repplier
19 may 2011 - "Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valva device for dealing with happiness overflow." Monica Edwards
20 May 2011 - We cats live to a ripe old age, look at me! And, as with you human types, parts of our body start closing shop.
I find that my hearing has gone. Like the ol fart, mummsy calls him - 'deaf ol fart'!
I wander around thinking that I had been deserted, when all of a sudden I would be picked up or somebody would approach me from the rear. Not good for the heart.
Mummsy and Ol Fart now gently ease into my field of vision. They might walk around to where I can see them or wave until they get my attention. Try it.
21 May 2011 - "Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow." Monica Edwards
21 May 2011 - I gave an order to a cat, and the cat gave it to its tail. Chinese proverb
21 May 2011 - "I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William." Josh Billings
