Tag: cat history
The Artistic Cat: It would be impossible to improve upon the artistic design of the cat
‘If an artist were to design an animal it would be impossible to improve upon the cat.’ That’s how ‘The Artistic Cat, Praise, Poems and Paintings,’a miniature book, published in China by Running Press in 1991, describes the beautiful reproductions of paintings and sayings throughout the book. Now you might wonder, why Paws is writing…
Wordless Wednesday: Abyssinian’s ancestry clouded
Does the Abyssinian dates back to the Blue Nile, being a descendent of the sacred cat of Ancient Egypt? It does indeed resemble the cats depicted in Egyptian art. Did it come back to England with soldiers at the end of the Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) War? The British soldiers did bring back a cat named…
