Now into our ninth year, Purr 'n' Fur continues to grow, with a wide selection of different sections and articles for the enjoyment of cat lovers.
The site is added to three times a year in spring, summer and winter with new material, updates and amendments.
The Winter 2011/12 batch is now complete.

Most recent additions at Purr 'n' Fur
(for links to all main sections, see Contents list further down the page)

Winter 2011/12
(we'll be back with more in the spring)

Church Cats: Inigo and Jones of the Actors' Church (St Paul's), Covent Garden in London
Library Cats: new entries for Europe -- New Zealand/Australia -- America 01 (Camden) 02 (Los Robles) 03 (Valley Center)
Cats in Wartime: several new entries for felines serving on land and in the air
Church Cats: meet Louis of Wells Cathedral, Somerset
Fragments: Bob the Big Issue cat – Angel tube station, London
Fun: a few new additions to our gallery of felines in amusing situations
Church Cats: Reverend Red was at Clapham, West Sussex, until 2011
(on the same page, St Mary's at Fairford is sadly now without a church cat)
Fragments: Bernice from Wisconsin - on a slow road to recovery after being found severely burned
Philately: our latest review of cat stamps from around the world
Church Cats: Tiggie at the First United Methodist Church, Victoria, Texas + her predecessors
More entries added to MiniFragments
Fun: another find for our galleries of pub signs picturing cats

Working Cats: updated article for Tama the feline Japanese stationmaster
Working Cats: further details and images added for Railway Cats from Britain who resided in signal boxes
Famous: page for Antarctic Cats updated/expanded
Hotel Cats: update for Matilda of the Algonquin Hotel, New York + addition of Fa-Raon of Paris
Famous: Larry's section updated on the page for Downing Street Cats
Adventures: Chibley of the sail-training barque Picton Castle sadly lost her life in November, a few months
after completing her 5th round-the-world voyage



A selection from the Summer 2011 batch

Working Felines: Railway Cats from Britain
Fragments: Amsterdam cats - De Poezenboot cat sanctuary on a houseboat, and De Kattenkabinet museum of feline art
Adventures: mountain-climber Tomba from the Swiss Alps
Famous: Mike & Black Jack of the British Museum, London
Adventures: in 1957 Mayflower II re-created the voyage of the Pilgrim Fathers - Felix the kitten was aboard
Fragments: two unusual cats - Dante the vegetarian, and Smokey with the record-breaking purr

Purr 'n' Fur Contents

Click on any of the titles below for the index page for that section
with a full list of contents

Famous Felines
Cats who became better known than the average feline

Featuring Felines
Real-life stories and adventures of cats, under the headings
Cats' Adventures  ::  Cats in Wartime  ::  Church Cats  ::  Library Cats  ::  Museum Cats  ::  Practice Cats
and a subsection for other Working Cats

Fabled Felines
Cats in fables, fairytales and festivals

Feline Fun
Light-hearted stuff about cats, including jigsaws, quotations, amusing photos,
a crossword puzzle and pairs game, links to other fun stuff, and our gallery of British pub signs picturing cats

Feline Folios
Summaries and details of cat books which have given us pleasure

Fans of Felines
Well-known or famous people noted for their liking of cats

Feline Fragments
A miscellany of 'cat stuff' that doesn't really fit into other categories,
with a sub-set we've called Mini Fragments for a miscellany of short news items past and present

Feline Philately: Cats on Stamps
Fully illustrated reviews of cat stamps from around the world
from 2000 to the present, pages of 'cat postmarks' from various countries,
and an article about thematic collecting

Feline Flotsam
A small collection of original desktop wallpapers for free download, and some cat-related fonts

About Purr 'n' Fur

Links to other sites
Please be aware that in general it is not Purr 'n' Fur's policy to exchange links with other sites,
and we prefer to limit our links to those that are relevant to the topics we write about.
By all means ask if you think you have a suitable link to suggest,
but please don't be offended if we decline.

Our featured feline: the beautiful marmalade character taking pride of place here on our home page was a Dutch kitten called Dabbe, belonging to colleagues who worked at the same college as I was in eastern Holland. Trust a cat to find the sunniest spot! — and his stripes contrasted beautifully with the duvet he was sitting on (Dec 1989).