Cats biography

Interestingly enough, the cat family split from the other mammals at least 40,, years ago, making them one of the oldest mammalian families. Adult cats average about 8 to 10 inches 20 to 25 centimetres tall at the shoulder. Most cats weigh from 6 to 15 pounds 2. Some cats weigh more than 20 pounds 9 kilograms. Cats are natural hunting animals and have strong predatory instincts.

Cats are built as a perfect hunting animal, they have powerful jaws, long sharp teeth and claws that retract back into their paws when not in use. Cats have acute hearing more sensitive than a dogs or humans and excellent eyesight that is adapted for dim vision, which enables them to hunt mainly after dusk and before dawn. Most of a cats muscles are long, thin and flexible.

They enable a cat to move with great ease and speed. Cats can run about 30 miles 48 kilometres per hour. Unlike many animals, a cat walks by moving the front and rear legs on one side of its body at the same time and then the legs on the other side. As a result, a cat seems to glide. You can tell a cats mood just by looking into its eyes.

A frightened or excited cat will have large pupils, whereas an angry cat will have narrowed pupils. Both humans and cats have identical regions in the brain responsible for emotion. Cats tend not to eat fruit and vegetables as they do not have an adequate digestive system to cope with that kind of food, although they occassionally chew grass to help with digestion.

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Bantam Books. Further reading [ change change source ]. Rochlitz, Irene Applied Animal Behaviour Science. Domestic cats. In he sold his first drawing and the following year gave up his teaching position at the West London School of Art to become a full-time illustrator. He married in but was widowed three years later. In he moved to the Kent coast with his mother and five sisters, and, except for three years spent in New York, remained there until the family returned to London in In , he suffered a severe head injury in a horse-drawn omnibus accident and ten years later was certified insane.

He spent the remaining fifteen years of his life in mental hospitals , where he continued to draw and paint. Some of his later abstract paintings have been seen as precursors of psychedelic art. Wain produced hundreds of drawings and paintings a year for periodicals and books, including Louis Wain's Annual which ran from to His work also appeared on postcards and advertising, and he made brief ventures into ceramics and animated cartoons.

In spite of his popularity and prolific output, Wain did not become wealthy, possibly because he sold his work cheaply and relinquished copyright, and also because he supported his mother and five sisters. Wain was born on 5 August in Clerkenwell in London. His father, William Matthew Wain — , was a textile trader, living in London but originally from Leek, Staffordshire ; his mother, Julie Felicie Boiteux — , was a church embroiderer from a family of French origin.

Wain's maternal grandfather, Louis Boiteux, was an artist. Wain was the first child and only boy in the family. Wain was born with a cleft lip and as a child was not in good health; he did not attend school until he was ten. He was sent first to Orchard Street Foundation School in South Hackney but spent much of his time playing truant and wandering around London, attending lectures at the Royal Polytechnic Institution or going on insect-hunting expeditions into the countryside.

He then did a course at the West London School of Art and was taken on as an assistant master at the school. In December , Wain's first drawing to be published appeared in the Christmas issue of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. It was a picture of bullfinches on laurel bushes, given the wrong title of "Robins Breakfast". The following year he was offered a position on the magazine and was able to give up his teaching position at the West London School of Art.

The couple lived in Hampstead and were joined by Peter, a black-and-white kitten. Emily developed breast cancer soon after the marriage; Peter was a comfort to her and also, as Wain would later say, laid the foundation of his career as a cat artist. At this time he was also reporting on agricultural shows and pet shows, and taking commissions for animal portraits.

By his cat pictures had been more widely noticed and he was commissioned by Macmillan to illustrate a children's book, Mrs Tabby's Establishment. Wain had little time to share his success with his wife; Emily died in January after just three years of marriage. At musical evenings, he would improvise on the piano. By he was a household name, and, in acknowledgment of his expertise on cats, was elected president of the National Cat Club.

Two illustrations of cats' Christmas parties in marked a new development in his style of drawing cats, as they took on more human features with Wain often doing preliminary sketches of people in public places. Wain's father had died in