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All cats are tabbies deep down. Yoda is a Himalayan as witness his blue eyes. He was the only short hair in a litter of five so he's not pure Himlayan. We lost his medium haired brother Ghengis last year. That little picture of Ghengis was taken on a cell-phone about a month before he disappeared.
Yoda's head isn't really as big as it appears. We hand reared a litter of five fluffy white kittens from the age of about ten days after their mother was killed either by coyotes or a large raptor. Ghenis was the most ruthless at feeding time when he was a kitten. Yoda had large ears which twitched as he fed. All kittens' eyes are blue when they first open at about ten days. When these kittens' eyes remained blue I began to wonder what breed they might be or if the males might be deaf as many white male cats are. Then at about a year old their coats began showing faint tabby markings beginning on the rear quarters. Yoda is now about eight years old.
Leo adopted us about five years ago after wandering about the neighbourhood not finding anyone else to take him in. He and Yoda abide by the adage keep your friends close and your enemies even closer. Where one is the other isn't very far away. I know many people absolutely detest cats for various reasons. Woody Guthrie described a brutal treatment of kittens in Bound for Gory. And just recently a boy in the USA decided that wrapping a cat with duct tape would be rather fun. The opening scenes of Whistle Down The Wind shows a sack full of kittens being tossed in to a pond. The farmers children rescue the kittens and keep them in a barn where a fugitive from the law has sought refuge.
I think most people are kind to cats judging from the fuss that is made of Lionel in the bookshop. But then surely book lovers and lovers of reading are lovers period . . .
