CATS & CAT CARE THROUGH THE AGES

These articles show how cats were considered, and cared for, and how attitudes changed, during the last 100+ years.

BIRTH OF THE CAT FANCY

Cat Clubs & Cat Fanciers (1880s - 1900)
British Catteries in the Nineteenth & Early Twentieth Century (pictorial list)
The Cat Fancy in Australia - In The Beginning . . .
The Cat Fancy in Australia - 50 Years of Cats (Beryl Chandler)
The Cat Fancy in Australia - The Early Breeds
The Cat Fancy in Australia - (News Cuttings) (1880s - 1900s)
The Cat Fancy in New Zealand
The Cat Fancy in South Africa
The Early British Cat Fancy (News Cuttings) (1880s - 1900
The Early British Cat Fancy (News Cuttings) (1901 - 1950s)

History of Cat Shows

Cat Clubs & Early Cat Shows (Britain)
Cat Clubs & Early Cat Shows (North America)
Vetting In, Travelling to Shows, Cheating and Judging Systems
Show Management & Judging (Frances Simpson)

Prominent Early Cat Fanciers

Cat Fanciers: Lady Claud Alexander
Cat Fanciers: Lady Marcus Beresford
Cat Fanciers: Mr H C Brooke
Cat Fanciers: Mrs Campbell Fraser
Cat Fanciers: Mrs Carew Cox
Cat Fanciers: Miss Jane R Cathcart
Cat Fanciers: Gertrude Willoughby, Lady Decies
Cat Fanciers: Mrs Fosbery
Cat Fanciers: Mrs Louisa Herring
Cat Fanciers: Miss Jay
Cat Fanciers: Mrs McLaren Morrison
Cat Fanciers: Prncess Victoria of Schleswig Holstein
Cat Fanciers: Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford
Cat Fanciers: Mrs. Stennard Robinson (show organiser)
Cat Fanciers: Frances Simpson
Cat Fanciers: Major E.S. Woodiwiss & Mr. Samuel Woodiwiss
Cat Fanciers: Other Early British Cat Fanciers (1880s - early 1900s)
Cat Fanciers: Other Early North American Cat Fanciers (1880s - early 1900s)
Post WW2 Cat Fanciers
Post WW2 Cat Fanciers: Nikki Horner
Post WW2 Cat Fanciers: Kit Wilson

Prominent Geneticist: Phineas Whiting (1887 - 1978)
Prominent Geneticist: Roy Robinson (1922 - 1996)

Cats & the Cat Fancy in North America

1880s-1900s: Regions & Catteries
1880s-1900s: Mrs Clinton Locke, Helen Winslow
1880s-1900s: California (Overland Monthly)
Fanciers & Clubs in News Articles: 1880s-1896   1897-1901   1902-1904   1905-1909
1906: Mabel Cornish-Bond (Mrs S Hazen Bond) and the US Register
Cats & the Cat Fancy in North America 1910 - 1929
Cats & the Cat Fancy in North America 1930s - 1959
Cats & the Cat Fancy in North America 1960s - 1970s

 

EARLY CAT SHOWS - REPORTS & NEWS CUTTINGS

Early Cat Show in Australia
Early Cat Show in New Zealand
Early Cat Shows in Britain Up to 1871       1872       1873
Early Cat Shows in Britain 1874    1875     1876       1877     1878      1879      1880       1881       1882       1883
Early Cat Shows in Britain 1884    1885     1886       1887     1888      1889      1890       1891       1892       1893
Early Cat Shows in Britain Crufts Cat Shows 1894 & 1895
Early Cat Shows in Britain 1894      1895      1896     1897       1898       1899
Early Cat Shows in Britain 1900      1901      1902      1903      1904       1905       1906       1907       1908       1909
Early Cat Shows in Britain 1910      1911      1912      1913      1914       1915       1916 - 1919 (wartime)
Early Cat Shows in Britain 1920      1921      1922      1923      1924       1925       1926       1927        1928       1929
Early Cat Shows in Britain 1930      1931      1932      1933      1934       1935       1936       1937        1938
Early Cat Shows in Britain 1939 - 1945         1946      1947      1948      1949
Early Cat Shows in Britain 1950     1951       1952      1953      1954      1955 - 1970s   final page, contains scattered cuttings only

Early Cat Shows in Europe (French shows are on a separate page)
Early Cat Shows in France
Early Cat Show in Hungary (Budapest, 1902)
Early Cat Shows in Netherlands

Early Cat Shows in Canada
Early Cat Shows in Boston
Early Cat Shows in California: Los Angeles
Early Cat Shows in California: San Francisco
Early Cat Shows in California: 1915 San Francisco Show Catalogue
Early Cat Shows in California (exc. Los Angeles & San Francisco)
Early Cat Shows in Chicago
Early Cat Shows in Cincinnati
Early Cat Shows in Maine
Early Cat Shows in New York City   1877 - 1895      1896 - 1900      1901 onwards
Early Cat Shows in New York State: Buffalo
Early Cat Shows in New York State: Rochester (Lockehaven Cat Club)
Early Cat Shows in New York State (excluding Buffalo, NY City & Rochester)
Early Cat Shows in New York   Nicodemus - New York's Fake Champion Cat of the 1890s
Early Cat Shows in Michigan: Detroit
Early Cat Shows in Milwaukee
Early Cat Shows in Minneapolis & St. Paul (Twin Cities)
Early Cat Shows in Ohio
Early Cat Shows in Philadelphia
Early Cat Shows in Pittsburgh
Early Cat Shows in Texas
Early Cat Shows in Washington
Early Cat Shows in the USA (other towns & cities)
1950s - 1970s Misc. Cat Shows In North America

Early Cat Shows Around the World (e.g. India)
Show Reports From More Recently Emerging Cat Fancies (worldwide)

 

BRIEF HISTORIES (MISC)

An ABC Of Cat Care 1961 & 2003
Brief History of Cats & the Law
Caring For Cats During the World Wars
Cats, Fits and Megrims in the Nineteenth Century
Cat Photography & Cat Artists (1903)
Early Genetics papers on Coat Colours in Cats (Genetics)
History of Cat Rescue - SPCAs, Bands of Mercy, Temporary Shelters (in general)
History - Cats Protection League Cutting 1930 - 1950s
History of Cat Rescue in Britain - Animals' Rescue League
History of Cat Rescue in Britain - London Institution for Lost and Starving Cats
History of Cat Rescue in Britain - Our Dumb Friends League
History of Cat Rescue in Britain - Regional Cats' Homes
History of Cat Rescue in Britain- Society for the Protection of Cats
History of Cat Rescue in Britain - Some Other Organisations
History of Cat Rescue in Britain - Some Benefactors
History of Cat Rescue in the USA
History of Chelmsford Cats Protection 1963-2003
History of Chelmsford Cats Protection - Reports from 1969 - 1974
Scientific Breeding of Cats (Genetics)

 

1700s - MID 1800s & NATURALISTS' TEXTS

1600s Naturalists' Texts Referring to Cats
1700s Naturalists' Texts Referring to Cats
1800 - 1850 Naturalists' Texts Referring to Cats
1851 - 1899 Naturalists' Texts Referring to Cats
1900s Naturalists' Texts Referring to Cats
1800s Cat Lover's Texts
1844(ish) - The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity With its Organization - Felinae
1850s - The Tortoise-shell Tom-Cat and Auction of a Tortie Tomcat
1880s - Studies of Cat Behaviour
1851 - Henry Mayhew on "The Cats' and Dogs' Meat Carrier"

MID-1800s - EARLY 1900s

1872 - 1873 - The Domestic Cat - Its History and Varieties
1880s-1900s - The Cat's Place in Nature
1880s-1900s - Care, Welfare, Feeding & Breeding
1880s-1900s - Medical Care of Cats
1880s-1900s - Cat Funerals in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
1880s-1900s - Catteries, Breeders & Their Notable Cats in the UK
1880s-1900s - Longhairs: General Observations
1880s-1900s - Black, Blue and White Persians
1880s-1900s - Silver, Chinchilla, Silver Tabby and Smoke Persians
1880s-1900s - Orange,/Red, Cream/Fawn and Tortoiseshell Persians
1880s-1900s - Brown Tabby, Sable Tabby and Any Other Colour Persians
1880s-1900s - Maine Cat (Maine Coon)
1880s-1900s - Russian Longhair, Angora, Siberian and Norwegian
1880s-1900s - Miscellaneous Shorthairs - General Comments
1880s-1900s - Shorthairs (Harrison Weir, with annotations)
1880s-1900s - British Shorthairs (Frances Simpson, with annotations)
1880s-1900s - Shorthairs (Helen Winslow, with annotations)
1880s-1900s - Abyssinian
1880s-1920s - Australian
1880s-1900s - Black Chinese, White Japanese, Black Siamese, Syrian & Thibet Cat
1880s-1900s - Maltese or American Blue
1880s-1900s - Manx
1880s-1900s - Mexican Hairless and Mombassa Cat
1880s-1900s - Russian Blue
1880s-1900s - Siamese and Blue Siamese
1880s-1900s - Swiss Mountain Cat and Chocolate Siamese
1896 - Races and Varieties of Domestic Cats (translated from German)
1899 - Friends and Helpers - Humane Education
1898 - Show Cats (GB Burgin)
1880s-1930s - Cats and Diptheria

1900s - 1930s

1900s - Early Scientific Papers About Cat Genetics.
1900s-1930s - Cat Culture in Europe
1900 - Some Splendid Cats (Harmsworth London Magazine)
1900 - Outfitting Her Majesty the Cat Not An Easy Task Now
1903 - Miss Willard's Cat (Toots Willard)
1905 - Irish Cats for Pleasure and Profit
1907 - Cat Show Judge Sued by Exhibitor (Wilson vs. Mason, King's Bench Division)
1908 Cat Show Season in Retrospect (The Ladies Field)
1908 - Domesticated Cats (British Museum)
1908 - The Aristocratic Persian (Country Life in America)
1909 - Pussies, Plebian and Royal (Grace Aspinwall)
1912 - Fashions For Mr. And Mrs. Mew. Colour In Cats (The Sketch)
1913 - Priceless Cats Housed in a $15,000 Palace
1913 - The Cat Fancy (Ida D Bennett)
1925 - Care of Persian Show Cats(Miss Lilla Brown, New York Breeder)
1900s-1930s - Feeding, Health & General Care (Page 1)
1900s-1930s - Feeding, Health & General Care (Page 2)
1900s-1930s - Behaviour and Intelligence
1900s-1930s - Breeds & Varieties: Longhairs, British Shorthairs, Manx, Diverse Breeds in Brief
1900s-1930s - Breeds & Varieties: Siamese, Burmese, Abyssinian, Japanese and Hairless
1900s-1930s - Breeds & Varieties: Russian Blue
1900s-1930s - Breeding & Showing
1928-1947 - Red Self Shorthair Cats
1932 - The Cat and Its Nine Lives
1934 - Cats and Their Care
1935 - Some French Catteries

1940s - 1960s

1940s linechasing
1947 - How to Revive the Less Popular Breeds (post-WWII).
1940s - General Care and Breeding.
1940s-1960s - Feeding.
1940s-1960s - Neutering and Population Control.
1950s-1960s - Breeds & breeding.
1940s-1960s - Longhaired Breeds.
1940s-1960s - Shorthaired Breeds.
1940s-1960s- Health & medical care.
1940s-1960s- Kitten care.
1950s - General Care.
1950s-1960s - General Welfare and Adoption.
1950s-1960s- Cat Behavioural Information.
1950s Feeding (transcribed from 1950s handwritten notes).

1960s - 1970s
1960s-1970s - Breeds & Breeding & Feeding.
1960s-1970s - Kitten care, health & medical care.
1960s-1970s - Behaviour & Welfare.
1970 - Multi-Colour Russians and the Breed Purity Debate
1970 - The "Silver Fox" Kittens
1973 - Himalayans (& Khmers) on the European Continent (Prose-Imbert)
1977 - Chocolate and Lilac Persians (Horan & Prose)

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