Mothers' Day

Mothers' Day

ACRYLIC ART

CALENDARS

CARDS

POETRY

PHOTOGRAPHY – ANIMALS

PHOTOGRAPHY -CANDID SHOTS

PHOTOGRAPHY – CATS AND DOGS
CATS
DOGS

PHOTOGRAPHY – CONTEMPORARY WORK

PHOTOGRAPHY – FLOWERS

PHOTOGRAPHY – INSECTS

PHOTOGRAPHY – TRADITIONALLY TURKISH

PHOTOGRAPHY – TREE AND TREE PARTS

T-SHİRTS

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CATS ARE US
CHLOE
DIBLEY
KAR
MINTY
LINFORD
“LISA“
“OLLIE“
“OTHERS“

DOGS ARE US
BELA
CLYDE -ROTTWEILER PUP
LUCKY
MOLLIE -ROTTWEILER PUP
ROTTWEILER PUPS – THE FIRST FOUR WEEKS
ROTTWEILER PUPS – FOUR WEEKS AND ON
ROTTWEILER PUPS – EIGHT WEEKS AND COUNTING
TROY
“OTHERS“

DIBLEY
Dibley tagged on to our cats when we lived on a site in Marmaris. She saw an opportunity for good free grub and took it …..what clever cat wouldn’t.
We affectionately called her Dibley as shemade the first ‘connection’ with us whilst we were watching ‘The Vicar of Dibley’: the dog collar suited the name and it stuck.
By the time we moved to a more rural setting the fat was part of the clan. More fool us the ‘fat’ cat we adopted, was infact pregnant and gave birth within days of moving to our new home. She took up “residence” in a part completed fireplace and gave birth to four – Liquorice, Minty, Linford and Chloe.
Ever felt that you’ve been ‘had’?

The tabby cat has a distinctive coat that features stripes, dots, or swirling patterns. Tabbies are sometimes erroneously assumed to be a breed of cat. In fact, the tabby pattern is a naturally occurring feature that may be the original coloration of the domestic cat’s distant ancestors. Tabby color is found in many breeds of cat, as well as among the general ‘moggy’ (mixed-breed or mongrel) population. When cats are allowed to breed randomly, the coloration of the population tends toward brown mackerel tabbies with green eyes[, leading geneticists to believe that this is the common wild phenotype of the domestic cat. The tabby usually has an “M” mark on its forehead.

The word, adapted from the name of a kind of textile, comes from French tabis, which was earlier atabis, and in medieval Latin attabi. The distant origin of the word seems to be from the Attabiyah section of Baghdad where a type of striped silk was made that was later used to describe cats.

Since the tabby pattern is a common wild type, it would be assumed that medieval cats were of tabby type. This was not the case in England at least. Some time after the mid-17th century, the curious antiquary John Aubrey noted in his disorganized memoranda, “W. Laud, A.B. Cant. was a great lover of Catts. He was presented with some Cyprus-catts, i.e. our Tabby-catts, which were sold, at first for 5 pounds a piece: this was about 1637 or 1638. I doe well remember that the common English Catt, was white with some blewish piednesse : sc, a gallipot³ blew. The race or breed of them are now almost lost.” William Salmon, in The Compleat English Physician, (London, 1693:326) notes of the domestic cat, “It is a neat and cleanly creature, often licking itself to keep it fair and clean, and washing its face with its fore feet; the best are such as of a fair and large kind and of an exquisite tabby color called Cyprus cats”. A study by the National Cancer Institute suggests that all current house cats (Felis catus) in the world are descendants from a group of self-domesticating wild cats 10,000 years ago, somewhere in the Near East. The closest relative of the Wild cat is the Sand Cat (Felis margarita).

DIBLEY

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