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Featuring Felines

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This section of our site includes real-life stories and adventures about cats that we'd like to pass on. In many cases the available information is quite limited and too short to make a 'Famous' page, as with various snippets we've come across about cats in wartime. Or it might be that the cat's (or cats') fame has been limited just to their local area — by including them here we'll hope to spread it a little wider. Any suggestions for inclusion are always welcome.

Cats' Adventures
Fleetwood, the pub-visiting cat
Maurice, Pixie and Elmo, who enjoy walking up to four miles a day
Mishka, the Kosovo Cat
Molly from the Deli-cat-essen; and Precious, a survivor of 9/11
Three tales: two lucky escapes and an astonishing journey
Two more lucky escapes: Ashley and Carlsberg
Two stories: Lucky and Emily

Cats in Wartime
On land and in the air
At sea
The Animals in War Memorial, London
The PDSA Animal Cemetery, Ilford
Two 19th century mascots, from the Crimean War and the American Civil War

Church Cats
Tom, of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol
Tiddles, of Fairford
Church of the Advent, Boston, Massachusetts
Miss Mac and Ko-Ko, of Dunsop Bridge
The Cats of Salisbury Cathedral
[you may also like to read about Faith, the London Church Cat, in our Famous Felines section]

Library Cats
Library cats: history, society, job description, and rules
Libraries at Umatilla (Florida), Cazenovia (NY), and Auburn (NY)
Haskell Township Library, Kansas; and Dori, the bookstore cat
and, in our Famous Felines section, you'll find
Dewey Readmore Books, of Spencer Library, Iowa

Museum Cats
Warbird Bob supervised restoration of vintage aircraft, the B-17 bomber his favourite
Rodent Control Officers at a Canadian maritime museum (including Flash movie)
Guarding treasures at the Hermitage, St Petersburg
'Trolley Cats' at Fort Smith, Arkansas
A virtual museum . . . but Max and Maxine are real
Recalling Blackie, of the Koshare Indian Museum, La Junta
Cats at the Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum, Key West

Practice Cats
Clinic cats at (a) Norman, Oklahoma, and (b) El Paso, Texas
Oscar, the cat that predicts death

Other sections:
Famous Felines
Fabled Felines
Feline Folios
Feline Fun
Feline Philately
Feline Fragments
Feline Flotsam

or visit the Purr 'n' Fur home page

Our featured feline at the head of the page is Socks, pictured in 2003 surveying his 'estate' in the early morning sunshine. Affectionately known as Soxy, he blossomed from a thin and hungry stray into a substantial and handsome cat who loved life and company, and his gentle ways endeared him to many friends. He is now no longer with us, but you can read more from his human companion here.

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