Portuguese Cats

Here are my two babies this weekend ...

Chere Khan (Munchkin) a Tabby and Hoover Van Dyson (Van) a Siamese Cross Snowshoe ... they are both ten years old ...

 

they look like mine.

 

Warning: photo heavy! These are my departed babies ...

Mr Red appeared with us in 2009 and died a month later curled up on a lounge chair in our outdoor living room.



Rasputin came to us out of the orchard in 2010. He had a raspy voice hence his name. He was with us for nine months and got to enjoy a Christmas. We had him euthanised as his lungs were full of fluid. He was so sweet and photogenic. He had a twin who used to come visit.



In 2007 we found Calvos and Candi in a plastic carrier bag in front of a rubbish bin at birth, still wet with umbilical cords. Candi got hit by a car 200 metres away across the orchard aged 11 months and Calvos 'disappeared' in the orchard in 2014. He had mental issues but so loving.









They are all buried here. Munchkin was found in a plastic bag with her four siblings and Van came to us out of the orchard.

I will put up my English moggies as they lived most of their lives here and are buried here too.

 

English cats who loved Portugal.

Puschka and Skwij were born in Tring in 1990. Skwij, the boy, died in 2003, aged 13. Puschka, the girl, died in 2006, aged 15. Magic Sam (Boo) was born in Buckingham in 1995 and died aged 20 in 2015.

Puschka




Skwij




Boo

 

Looks like a domestic short haired cat to me.

 

They all are except Van who is a cross Siamese/domestic shorthair. Munchkin, the Tabby, has two Siamese brothers plus two Tabby brothers. Strangely, there are a lot of Siamese and Persian crosses here. Boo, the English black one, had a white Persian mother and four white siblings ... he was the black 'sheep' of the family, with a Tabby father.

Munchkin's brothers ...

 

Van relaxing on the stone wall on the kitchen patio ...



A rarity, Van and Munch having a snooze next to each other, and it really shows their size difference ...

 

Only a cat would 'relax' on a stone wall.