Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
If you aren’t familiar with pedigreed cats, you may be under the impression that the American Shorthair is a fancy name for an alley cat. However, the American Shorthair, which was called the Domestic Shorthair until the nineteen sixties, is a pedigreed cat that meets a specific standard.
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Saturday, September 15th, 2007
9,500 year old feline skeleton in Cyprus April 08, 2004 Natl Geographic
The carefully interred remains of a human and a cat were found buried with seashells, polished stones, and other decorative artifacts in a 9,500-year-old grave site on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. This new find, from the Neolithic village of Shillourokambos, predates early Egyptian art depicting cats by 4,000 years or more.
Cats: Plans For Perfection creating the purrfect predator NGS
Join the Project Cat design team as they hone the blueprints for the ‘perfect predator’
a mammal that can thrive in almost any habitat on earth.
Egyptian Pet Mummies
Mummified Pet Lion Jan 2004
Feline Evolution NGS Jan 2004
Researchers say they have solved an 11-million-year-old puzzle: how a single feline-like ancestor in Asia spread throughout the world and developed into all modern cat species.
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