Tag: tuxedo cats

Black and white cats.

Black and white cats or tuxedo cats? it’s all a matter of location, come and meet Sadie a British black and white cat and hear some of her stories.

(Tuxedo cats)

Sadie being a bag cat again.

I have only recently discovered that Sadie is indeed a tuxedo cat

(being British I have always called black and white cats, black and white cats) clearly we as a nation are not as inventive as our American friends, who it would appear call their black and white cats tuxedo cats because that is how they look.

(such a lovely visualization to imagine those little furry people wearing tux’s)

Did you know? I didn’t.

I wondered where this term had originated, so I did a little research and found that it is in fact credited to The Cat Fanciers Association (of America) who are a non profit organisation that started in 1906 concerned with the welfare of all cats and also about protecting the registry of cat breeds, helping in making the world of breeding and showing pure bred cats a better place (for the cats)

The CFA is also now the worlds largest registry of pedigreed cats.

Cat quote of the day.

“A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.” – Mason Cooley

Why I started writing Sadie’s cat blog…

The birth of Sadie’s cat blog was a quiet affair witnessed only by thirty or so eight year olds.

I have for many years been teaching computing lessons to primary aged children, one of the themes that we cover is online presence. Where they learn not only about e safety (obviously important) but also among other things about what a blog is and how to write one.

To help the children with ideas I made an example blog to show them, this was the start of Sadie’s cat blog. (as the children in this lesson were only eight years old we were not actually putting our blogs online, just on a word document and sharing only with the rest of the class)

At the time I hadn’t considered putting her properly online, I just mocked up her blog as a teaching prompt.

It was only many years later after coming across some of the cute and funny photos that I had taken of her and thinking what an amusing little cat she really was, that I finally decided to actually have a go at a real online cat blog to share her story with others.

Here is an image and a little excerpt from her original blog

My cat Sadie

She likes to follow me everywhere when I am at home,

her hobbies are eating, sleeping and sitting in strange places.

Why not subscribe to Sadie’s cat blog then you will never miss any of her stories or cute cat pictures of her and her friends.

Cat quote of the day.

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.” —Sigmund Freud