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The weather has been all over the place the past 30 days. One day it is cold and snowing and the next day it is in the 50's and the snow all melts off.
Recently, I had a request to write about how I came up with our cattery name "Pelaqita." So, how I arrived at the weird name of Pelaqita is that.....
When I first got the paperwork from the Cat Fanciers' Association to register a cattery name, I had no idea of what name to use other than I wanted something unique and something short. Then I remembered my Nana's cat, Pelaqita, who I spent many hours with as a young child and teenager. I have no idea what the word means, but I do remember my Nana telling me at one time that it was a Hawaiian word. Of course, I had no idea how to spell it and tried to sound it out: pela (like bella with a "p") qi (like "Key"), ta (self-explanatory). At that time, I also had no idea that in the Hawaiian language there is no "q". :-) However, once I received approval for my cattery name from the CFA it would have been tough to change it and it would not be retroactive to any of my previous kittens or cats, so I never fixed the mistake.
Sometimes it 's hard when you have suffered from a severe closed head injury and its the little things that do not come back, couple that with the fact that I NEVER (even as a child in school) was able to sound out words and you can see why I mangled the name of my Nana's cat. :-)
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Mild Mannered Moochi
Starwood Magazine, March 2013
By: Barbara Fischler
In Starwood's Water's Edge is a Persian cat named Moochi who lives with his family, Cindy and Lloyd McHoes. Like all Persians, Moochi is an extremely laid back and sociable cat, but to make things interesting he keeps a few funny habits up his paw, odd-but-endearing habits that seem to come with the breed.
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Cats and High Places
By: Susan MacArthur
As a cat owner, you may have noticed that cats prefer high places whether they are looking to take a nap, play or just hang out. While we may never really know the real reasons(s) why cats prefer high places, here are a few theories:
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Cats Awake at Night - Reducing Nocturnal Activity
By: Susan MacArthur
Cats are nocturnal and prefer to be up at night and can sleep up to 16 hours a day. One of the most common complaints that veterinarians get is that their cat is keeping them up at night. There are several things you can do to help:
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Susan:
My mom looks like she was sleeping in this picture, but she was really trying to hold as still and quiet as possible, so Viola Rose, my 4-month-old calico Persian kitten, wouldn't stir from her position, having draped herself over her Grandma's neck.
Viola Rose is a 6 month old Calico Persian, born July 28th, 2012. I adopted her from Persians Plus Rescue in Oak, PA on December 26th. She is my dream cat, as I have wanted to adopt a Calico Persian for years. I was so happy to be able to adopt her from a rescue, as Persian kittens rarely end up in rescue. In the past year, I had lost two of my Persian cats: one to cancer, one to old age and degenerative myelopathy. There is no better tonic for a broken heart than a bouncy little fluffy kitten.
Viola Rose's beauty is breathtaking, but she is as pretty on the inside as on the outside. She is incredibly affectionate and LOVES it when I rub her face. When I sit down with her on the sofa, she drapes herself across my neck and shoulders and purrs her head off. She snuggles up with both my adult Himalayan cats. At first, they were apprehensive about her cuddling, but Viola Rose assured them that snuggling up for naps is how it's done in the kitten world. She is very persuasive and great at making friends with other cats!
Andrea P.
Rochester, NY
Cat's Name: Viola Rose
Date of Birth: July 28, 2012
Breed: Persian
Color: Calico
Send Us Those Cat Pictures
Does your cat do something that you think nobody would believe unless they saw a picture of it? Send us that picture. Is your cat having a love affair with another species? Send us the picture. Is your cat the life of any gathering? Send us the picture. You get the idea. We thought it would be fun to show a Cat of the Month photo every month which will be posted in our newsletter. If you submit a picture, please include your full name (this information is just for us and will not be shared), the name, age or date of birth, color, and breed of your cat. If there are other animals in the picture, please let us know who or what is appearing with your cat. You MUST be the owner of the picture in order to submit the picture to us. The cat does NOT need to be a Persian cat, nor does it have to be a purebred. We just want to make this fun.
Send the pictures to: susan@pelaqitapersians.com
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Featured Persian Color
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Chocolate Tortie Point Persian Himalayan Cat
The Cat Fanciers' Association Persian cat breed standard for the Chocolate Tortie Point:
Body: ivory.
Points: chocolate with
unbrindled patches of red and/or cream.
Nose leather and paw
pads: cinnamon pink and/or coral pink.
Eye color: deep vivid blue.
Disqualify: white toes, eye color other than blue
The Chocolate Tortie Point is in the CFA Himalayan Color division.
The photographer is the world renowned animal photographer, Richard Katris:
Chanan .
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Did You Know?
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Mincho went up a tree in Argentina and did not come down until she died 6 years later. While up the tree, she managed to have three litters of kittens with equally ambitious dads.
A cat's normal body temperature is approximately 101.5 degrees.
A litter of kittens can have more than one father.
Many cats do not have eyelashes.
"...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first." ~
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Litter Box
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Tempest is due any day. She was bred to Diggie.
Sophia is also due around March 9th and she was bred to ESPY.
It is still too early to know anything about Sugar and Gracie has not come into heat yet (although I may have missed it and she may be pregnant also).
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