It continues to be difficult to get information out of Tashirojima — Cat Island — in Japan. Although I don’t have any “official” reports from the mainstream press, we have been able to cobble together bits of anecdotal information from readers in touch with friends and relatives on the island. Betty, a Cat’s Meow reader, …
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ORLEANS — The latest rare wildcat kittens at a New Orleans conservation center were born from embryos frozen before Hurricane Katrina. The two male African black-footed cats are among the worlds smallest felines. Theyll grow to about one-third the size of the average housecat. Scientists in Omaha, Neb., collected and froze the fathers sperm in …
U.K. college student Nathan Cooper suffers from epilepsy, but is lucky enough to have a lifesaving tabby keeping him out of harm’s way. The cat, Lilly, is only 14-months old, but already she has saved Cooper’s life on at least one occasion. After suffering an unusually severe epileptic fit, the 19-year-old Cooper stopped breathing. According …
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In a ground-breaking — and heart-meltingly cute — genetic achievement, scientists at a Louisiana research facility have announced the birth of a pair of rare African black-footed cats. The two male kittens are the first of their species born as a result of vitro fertilization. Their father, Ramses, came from the Henry Doorly Zoo Center …
