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First of course is the Famous Albert. Pic taken while on Photobooth.






This is a pic of my cat Blonde Boy or BB. He was a found on the side of the road when he was only 3 months old full of cat flu. He spent 6 weeks in the vets on death row for a lot of it... He is certainly fit and well now. He is siamese in colour, except he his ginger instead of dark points. He is just a moggy with a lucky coat I think!





Here is another of BB. Staring at the camera with his crystal blue eyes.




BB sneering, he had just recovered from slipping off the log on this pic!



This is Free Wheelin' Franklin. Or Frank being held by Beth. Frank is 14.



Another of Frank having a scratch on a log.



This is Flake. Another long haired ginger who looks a lot like Frank. Flake is my brothers cat, we are caring for Flake while my brov is in India on a works contract.



Frank sunbathing... he does this a lot!


Frank finding all the attention a tad too much for an elderly man....



Stripe. I know, original name or what, we were running out of names by this time..... Stripe is a Manx cat like Albert and Stump.


Finally Stumps. She too is a manx cat.




If you carefully count these, there are 6 cats. I didnt include Mouldy. Mouldy is Beths cat and Beth has all her pics! Mouldy is a blotched tabby, she isnt well due to old age, she has had her ear tips removed to to cancer, and she has cancer on her nose as well, so she isnt very pretty anymroe which is a shame. She is doing well though. She was given to us by the local butcher and she is a teenager but not sure of her age.


There... Lots of kitty pics to drool over.... Now, its not a good idea to ask to see cat pics from me. Cos Ive rather a lot! Apoligies to those who dont like kitties.


Mary
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well seein as were sharin pics...

these are my dads cats...this is jack! big and fluffy and georgeous




this is julia who we picked up as a stray from rehoming centre

mabel...my dads other cat

& sophie...knockin on 17 or 18years now ... and still going strong!!

ps i LOVE frank the cat!!!

Well not a cat lover esp when they mess in the garden digging up my plants, but did like the look of Frank.

Some wonderful footage of scottsih wild cats on springwatch, and the Ospreys are breathtaking.

Laurie, I love your cats! Is Julia a full ginge? Unusual for a girlie to be ginger. Love Jack and Mabel. They are fab fluffies. I am taking a guess that they are burman cats? Or is it Burmease??? Not good at pedigree cats.


They are beautiful arent they.


Glad you like Frank. He is certainly a cat with presence we think. Certainly he has us trained.


Mary

yeh full ginge...shame i aint got anymore pics!

shes like stripey with dark & light ginge
but not fluffly...unlike frank...loooookkkksss ssssooooo ccuuuddllllyyyy

yeh theyre burmans

im never sure which it is?!?! burmans or burmease
but theyre lovely
shes prob under 9months old...found as a stray in a nearby woods

I'd put a picture of ours (Polly) up but we don't have a wide angled lens

Pussance and her twittens.

Awwww.

Can BB come to stay with me please?
I love the cats pics, all of them.

Tigger is currently visiting my girlfriends for the week, I am going to see her this evening and of course she will get a lot of fuss from me 'cos she's my baby.
Yes, the girlfriend will also get a warm hug-n-kiss.
I'll post pictures of Tigger as soon as I can.

Alan, PURRRRRR

Alan D wrote:Tigger is currently visiting my girlfriends
Alan, PURRRRRR

Is tigger staying a night at each one?

Lovely, all of them.

however I have to admit I've fallen in love with the Scottish wildcat Simon King found on "Springwatch". Just soooo gorgeous! We had a bit of fun when he went through the differences between it and a common tabby as at the time our common tabby was happily asleep on the sofa. Certainly NOT a wildcat.....

Jan


PS Mary - are Manx cats common on the island (sorry if this is a stupid question) and are they regarded as "pedigree" ?

Hi Mary Loved the foto's of the cats Here is a few of my German Shepherd Dog she is Called Skye after the Isle of Skye she will be 7 in july. Cheers from Kevin.

I did'nt know that there was a breed of cat known as the German Shepherd? What's next, sniffer cats in all our ports?

To answer your question Auchmill.
There is only one Girlfriend, when I go for a weekend visit, Tigger comes with me, she loves exploring the garden (I don't have a garden, so she stays indoors at my home). The only problem is that she recognises the cues when it is time for me to go home and on several occasions she has 'done a runner'. No amount of calling will coax her out of her hiding place, so the weekend visit turns into a week's holiday and I have to go home without her Still no internet at home, so pikkies of Tigger will have to wait.
Alan

Kevin, I love your GSD.

We always had these dogs as pets when I was a child. I grew out of 3 of them.

Trudi, she died aged 10 from severe hip dysplacia when I was 14 years old. She was a lovely dog, but was disabled from an early age.

Then we had Heidi. She was brilliant and had 13 healthy pups in one sitting! Heidi died of lung cancer (she was a passive smoker unfortunatly) when she was 10. Finally, we had Kirsty. She was a fun gal and I walked the legs off her. She has walked every foot path I could find on the IOM. She retired to France with my parents, and managed to reach 11 years of age there. She had been a well travelled gal, she lived in Maine in USA for 2 years with my parents too.



Manx Cat.

THey are not strictly a pedigree cat. But real 'breeders' will make their kittens 'pedigree' if that is what is wanted. The parent cats need to pass the breed standard to become a breeding cat, then the kittens can have a pedigree and be registered.

Manx Cats are a freak of nature. They have a form of spinabifida. In some Manx cats this can be so severe that the cat has no hind end, but usually these are aborted. The best healthiest way to breed manx cats is to breed tailed to tailess.

If you breed Manx to Manx, you might get away with it, but then again you might not. Many manx cats have digestive disorders - luckily mine do not. Manx cats also carry what is known as a lethal gene. This is common when Manx to manx are bred. The kittens grow badly deformed and at some point die in utro, either being aborted or absorbed depending at what stage the gene kicked in.

Stumps is a Manx cat, but not a show Manx cat as she has a single tail vertebra - thus a stump. She is therefore known as a Rumpie Manx Cat. These tend to be the healthiest ones, in my opinon.

Stripe won best Opposite Breed at our Royal Agricultural Show, they will only admit pure Manx cats into their show. Albert and Stripe are pure Manx. Bred likely from tailed to tailess parents. NEither has any bone at their tail point at all. Luckily they are healthy, but Albert has problems with washing as he is a bit tubby right now! Manx cats are very chubby in the body department!

When you bred tailed wiht tailless, you end up with a mix in the litter.

If four kittens are born, you might have either 2 Manx, 1 Rumpie and 1 tailed. Or any other combination. Certainly they will not all be Manx.

I would be very careful buying from a breeder. Often cats born with a tail from a Manx kitten breeding litter are drowned. Sometimes because they still carry the Manx gene they are kept for a future pairing with another Manx cat. But there is no value in a tailed cat unless its used for breeding.

Here on the island a Manx cat will fetch anything from £10 up to £100 or more depending on the desparation of the new owner to have a Manx Cat.

So called pedigree manx as far as Im aware are not bred on the island, but they are in UK and in USA and cost a bomb!

In regard to them being common on the island. Yes and No.

THey are less common than tailed cats certainly, the best and healthiest cats are usually farm bred. There is a large interest in them from USA.

THey are of course more common here than anywhere else in the British Isles.

Manx cats come in all colours of the cat world.


There... All you ever thought you would need to know about Manx Cats!


Mary