August 13, 2009
Over the past 10 years we have had great satisfaction and rewards from re-homing older cats.
Harry Cat. He was our first ‘re-home’ …….. ‘we’ re-homed Harry from an older owner who was going blind, and could no longer cope with Harry under her feet.
He was stated as being 8 Years old, but once we got him home, it was obvious he was older (in his mid teens even).
We had never re homed a cat before. He took time to settle. He also had behavioral problems. That said, he had a fantastic personality, and was soon loved by all. Read more…
August 13, 2009
More Than 200 Years Of Evolution
This cat is a big cat lover’s cat. Although hugely popular outside of the state, these beautiful long-haired cats did actually originate in Maine. The seaports of the Colonies were breeding ground for rats, and thus attracted heavy bodied and powerful short haired cats, that had come from European countries such as France and England. Back than cats were used for rat control on any ship crossing the Atlantic, and than most of them simply let loose. It was during the formative years that our new country began to see ships from the Baltic and Scandinavian areas, bringing with them, their own breed of cats. Though smaller, these cats had something that let them adapt to the harsh climate of the central seaboard states, they had unbelievable long hair. The current residence had no problem crossbreeding with these cats, and so began the evolution of the uniquely American breed, known as the Maine Coon Cat. Read more…
August 13, 2009
Its Origin Clouded In Intrigue And Controversy
The fact that this breed of cat has beautiful blue eyes and highly recognizable color point coat is no accident or result of evolution.
If we believe the breeder, Ann Baker, the original Ragdoll cats were the consequence of a government experiment back in the 1960’s. It seems that one of her neighbor’s cats named Josephine, got into an accident involving a car, and for some reason was taken to a laboratory at the University of California. Read more…
August 03, 2009
Protecting our pets from roaming from our families and backyards is one of the umteen duties that we have to find as pet proprietors. As such, it is very strategic that we put up some standards in our houses to make sure that they will invariably be healthy. One of the affairs that we require to have to make secure that our pets halt within our prefaces is a wall. All The Same, if you don’t want to mar the clean landscape of your grounds and your garden with a fence, then you might like to regard arranging up an undetectable fencing like the PetSafe radio fencing.
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