In an earlier post, I featured a charming chicken-stealing kitty: Little tiny Brazilian cat steals chicken I said in the comments that I thought it was a Siamese kitten. Nope. If a purebred, most likely a Ragdoll kitten, as Michael pointed out in added comments. So, I did some research on YouTube. This is a Siamese kitten, tho I can't refine the call to say whether it is of "traditional" or "modern" type. Direct link is here Human says: "While my older siamese cat (Autumn) is enjoying some catnip, my five month old siamese kitten (Phoebe) challenges her for a whiff of it. View to see who wins!" And this is a Ragdoll kitten. Direct link is here

A lilac point Siamese cat is caught on video stealing kitty treats from the cabinet. And, he knows he is guilty as all get-out! Looking over his shoulder and checking repeatedly for the human, once he opens the cabinet door. Siamese are among the smartest cats apparently. I don't know if they have a moral conscience, but this cat KNOWS that what he is doing is not on the "approved list". ;) Direct link is here I read through the YT comments, and found that the human says: "He is a lilac point traditional (apple head) Siamese". I don't know Siamese, and I don't know about the color pointing thing- so I was at first trying to guess what type of Siamese he was, and then his color. But, the human cleared this up. Here's a sweet flickr photo of two lilac point kittens from seemster . (CC license allows sharing.) Michael over at "Pictures of Cats" has many many pages discussing the Siamese cat- including the "cat fights" over t...

This is my favorite scene from "That Darn Cat". I have to confess that it took me a bit of watching to figure out how "DC" got up there on the drive-in movie screen, trying to catch the surfers! ;) Direct link is here I was able to watch the whole movie, thanks to a YouTuber who posted it in 12 parts here . Note that the second part isn't labeled by "part #"- just "That Darn Cat" but the rest are. Part 1 is here on You Tube , part 2 is here on You Tube . I trust y'all can figure out the rest. p.s. click on the label below "cats in movies" for, um... more cats in movies.

As a result of discovering Bell Book and Candle, featuring Siamese cat Pyewacket (and some minor humans) I set off on a google adventure. I found a site with these two pictures: Captions: (left)Gorgeously draped over the shoulder of the stunning Kim Novak is Pyewacket, of Bell Book and Candle 1958 (right)"DC", That Darn Cat Walt Disney 1965 played by Syn Cat, with Haley Mills. Oh, btw, the original post about "Bell Book and Candle" is here , and has a great video of Kim Novak and the cat. This statement from the photo above intrigued me: "These are what a Traditional Siamese Should look like-- Nice formed bodies and gorgeous expressive heads. Another popular style of the Siamese is the Modern (Americanized) also known as Show Style Siamese". Aha!, I said to myself, I know (something) about this, because I'd previously read Michael's articles at POC. I learned that the "Siamese cat" has a long and complicated history. The original Siam...

"Hasn't this cat got anything better to do? Couldn't you give him something to read?" As I noted in an earlier post here, LIFE magazine has recently published an online archive of photos here, so of course I had to check it out for kitteh pix. LIFE caption of the above photo is: Actor James Stewart about to be pounced upon by a cat in a scene from the motion picture "Bell, Book And Candle". This started me off, because I love classic movies, and, of course, cats. I have to confess that "Bell, Book and Candle" is a (perhaps minor) classic movie that I've never seen. But, my favorite "major classics" starring Jimmy Stewart include Mr. Smith Goes to Washington , The Philadelphia Story , Harvey , and Vertigo ... OMG, it's hard to know where to stop with this list... But, as poked around the Toobz to find more about "Bell, Book and Candle" , my cat whiskers started quivering... Above is a snippet from the film tra...