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All about felines large and small, wild and tame.

Cat health, cat care, cat love in general. .

Essays, advice, and photographs of kittens and cats galore.



Our cat Kitty, a Somali tabby.

My brother Timothy is holding Tigger, who is about to pounce on a cricket, in this photograph taken in 1965.

I'm holding my fluffy purebred Persian Rex (1981-1998), in this photography taken in 1986.

Rex was docile and affectionate, tolerant of being held, and was incapable of biting. Yet, he had an amazing ability to jump, leaping on three feet high table without any trouble, and was an extremely fast sprinter. I did make the mistake of taking him to a cat show once. Rex didn't like that at all, although he came in third in the pet category.

Rex' parents were both champions and his grandparents were all grand champions. Both his parents had blue hair. His cream coloring came from his great-grandparents.

Rex was a remarkable cat, and to him I attribute my life, as one late winter night, he awoke me from sleep while a fire engulfed the apartment building I was living in at the time that killed a child in the apartment beneath me. On the day he died many years later, I wrote that "in life, Rex taught me so much, that the core of love is commitment, in sickness or in health, and that love that is given is returned one-hundred fold. He taught me to look sometimes at the cares and concerns of this world through his bright, playful eyes. These are lessons that have helped in my relationship to my wife and in raising my boys. I will hold on to these lessons-- these memories-- of our friend and pet for the rest of my life, for in teaching me about life, he taught me something also about death."





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