Only a Turkish Van owner has ever closed the bathroom door to protect the toilet from a cat. You know the routine. The water bowl is not for drinking. It is for stirring, tapping, and flicking onto the floor while you watch. A white cat with a coloured head and tail The Turkish Van is

Peggy does not sit. Peggy does not loaf. Peggy rises onto her hind legs, plants her front paws against her chest, and stands there like a small, round bird waiting for a bus. It is a very specific posture, and her owners say it has never changed. She started penguining the first day they brought

Pick up a Manx and the first thing you notice is not the missing tail. It is the rump: round, high and rocking above the shoulders, because the hind legs are longer than the front ones. Anyone who has lived with one knows the rest. The bunny-hop gait. The cobby, heavier-than-it-looks body, usually 10 to

Your cat is sitting on the arm of the couch, looking right at you, and slowly closing both eyes. Then she opens them again. Then she does it again. This is the slow blink. Most owners file it under “sleepy” or “staring.” It is neither. Why owners misread it Cats do not wag, grin or

The glass in front of Vitamin C’s enclosure got a paw print every time someone walked past. He was a ginger-and-white cat in a shelter in Melbourne, Australia, and he had worked out the one thing that might get him out. So he patted the glass. Every single time. A stray with one move Vitamin