Pelushka Persians
Bred With Love & Care
Cartoon/Comic Cats
Garfield is a 12 kg fictional lazy, fat, selfish, orange Tabby cat with human characteristics, he struggles with diets, Mondays, apathy and boredom! He enjoys eating (especially lasagna), sleeping, and tormenting his owner Jon and Odie the dog. He considers himself to be more intelligent than humans and other animals and delights in poking fun at pet owners and their relationships with their pets. He was created by Jim Davis, and as of 2007, the
THE CHESHIRE CAT 
The Cheshire Cat is a cat that can slowly disappear, leaving only its grin behind, as described in ‘
PINK PANTHER 
Silent, rose-pink coloured, animated feline who made his debut in the 1964 movie 'The Pink Panther'. The panther often matched wits with humans and always managed to escape unharmed but not before leaving turmoil in his wake.
TOM (FROM TOM & JERRY) 
Tom is a career cat whose line of work happens to be napping, eating, and chasing housemate Jerry. Head and shoulders above other felines. Tom remains a cat of few words content to scheme and strategize about nabbing his elusive mouse nemesis.
Tom and Jerry were an animated cat (Tom) and mouse (Jerry) team who formed the basis of a massively successful series of theatrical short animated films created, written and directed by animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (later of Hanna-Barbera fame). The series was produced by
SYLVESTER 
Sylvester the Cat was created by Friz Freleng in 1945 for the cartoon 'Life with Feathers' where he first uttered those immortal words: "Thufferin' Thuccotash!". Mel Blanc supplied Sylvester's voice. In 1947 Sylvester was teamed for the first of many times with Tweety in a cartoon called 'Tweety Pie'.... the rest is history, as they say.
FELIX
Created by Pat Sullivan, Otto Messer, and John King in 1919, Felix the Cat began as a method of enhancing the
It was not long before Felix adapted to the world of sound in a series of cartoons produced in Technicolor by Van Buren studios in 1936, and a 1958 series produced by
War Time Cats
OSCAR (UNSINKABLE SAM)
There was a very famous cat named Oscar who saw service with the German and the British Navy. He started out as a mascot on the German battleship
BOMBER
During the blitz in
MOURKA
A cat named Mourka was used to carry messages across a street during the siege of
Cats and Famous Owners
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON & 'HODGE'
Number
Dr Johnson lived in the house for eleven years and it was here that he produced the dictionary for which he is famous. Like many writers, he had a fondness for cats. Hodge would have kept him company as he laboured on his mammoth task for years on end.
Dr Johnson would go out himself to purchase oysters for the cat. Apparently he did so, in case the servants became resentful of doing so and took "a dislike to the poor creature".
History does not tell exactly when Hodge passed away, but it is known that Dr Johnson went out to find some valerian (a plant very similar to catnip) when his cat was dying to make his last hours as pleasant as possible as it was recorded by James Boswell, whose book, The Life of Samuel Johnson was published in 1799.
HORACE WALPOLE & 'SELIMA'
Horace Walpole owned a tortoiseshell cat called Selima who accidentally drowned in a goldfish bowl! Walpole's friend, the poet Thomas Gray, realising just how distraught his friend was at the loss of his pet, wrote Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes to commemorate the sad event.
CHARLES DICKENS & ‘WILLAMENA’
EDGAR ALLEN POE & ‘CATARINA’
Edgar Ellen Poe used his tortoiseshell cat 'Catarina' as the inspiration for his story 'The Black Cat'. Catarina was a house cat and during the winter of 1846 when Poe was destitute and his wife dying of tuberculosis, Catarina would curl up on the bed with the dying woman and provide warmth.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON (1643-1727) philosopher
Sir Isaac Newton, famous for his laws of motion and gravity, was a confirmed cat lover who was deeply concerned about the welfare of his feline friends and is said to have invented the Cat Flap so that his research would go uninterrupted, and his cats would not feel restricted and be at liberty to wander freely in and out when the doors were closed.
SIR WALTER SCOTT & ‘HINSE’
Sir Walter Scott's affection for his dogs is well known but he also owned a tyrannical tomcat called Hinse who terrorised the author's large dogs. Unfortunately Hinse misjudged his ability to instil fear in all dogs and was eventually killed by one!
ERNEST HEMINGWAY & ‘PLEASURE PUSS’
Ernest Hemingway was an amazing man, with many talents and interests. He was also an inveterate cat-lover, because he admired the spirit and independence of cats. Hemingway acquired his first cat from a ship's captain in Key West, Florida, where he made his home for a number of years. This cat, Mr Pleasure Puss, which may have been a
EDWARD LEAR & 'FOSS'
Foss was owned by artist and humorist Edward Lear. The kitten was introduced to the Lear household in 1873 when a misguided servant cut the poor kitten's tail off because he thought this would stop it from straying. The unfortunate tom-cat was not at all handsome; nonetheless, he became famous through the cartoons drawn by his master.
Mr. Lear loved the cat so much that when he moved to a
Foss died in 1887, and was given a full burial with a large tombstone in Lear's Italian garden. Why the age of Foss is recorded on the tombstone as 31 years instead of reading 14 years remains a mystery. But it was only two months later when he himself died at the age of 76.
Lear's drawings of his stripped tabby cat are well known, especially those which accompany his rhyme, The Owl and the Pussycat
MUESSA
The cat so loved by the prophet Mohammed that, according to tradition, he cut off his robe rather than disturb the cat, which was sleeping on it.
HUMPHRY
There is a history of cats in the British prime minister's residence and the Treasury dating as far back as the time of Henry VIII. But it was Humphrey who brought the position of resident mouser at
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL (1874-1965) British politician and
Sir Winston Churchill was a renowned cat lover and a special chair was kept both in the Cabinet Room and at Churchill’s dining table for his favourite cat. For many years his favourite cat was the aptly named Nelson who also shared his bed. In later years the favoured cat was a marmalade one named Jock. Jock slept with his master, shared his dining table, and attended numerous war-time Cabinet meetings. If Jock was late for meals, Churchill would send someone to find him, waiting to eat until the cat was present. Jock was said to have been with Churchill when he died and was among the named beneficiaries in his will.
Miscellaneous Cats
SUGAR
In 1951 Mr and Mrs Woods moved to
Amazed that the cat could have travelled so far (1,500 miles) he was given a very close examination, as Sugar was a part-Persian with a deformed hip. But it was unmistakably him! How he had managed to navigate his way over such a distance remains a mystery.
ORANGEY
Ginger cat that starred in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" with Audrey Hepburn in 1961. His cinematic debut was in 1952 in the title role of “Rhubarb,” and won the Patsy Award in 1952 and again in 1962. He also played in "Gigot", and in the television series "Our Miss Brookes".
KASPAR
The Savoy Hotel in
The superstition must have some significance, as a gentleman who had been forced to host a party of thirteen, because one of his guests had cancelled at the last moment, was later found shot dead in his office. After this incident, the Hotel always provided a staff member if a party had thirteen guests. However, as some of the conversations were often of a confidential nature, wooden-eared Kaspar was conceived to become a convenient fourteenth guest.
The black wooden cat, carved by Basil Ionides in 1926, has been used by many famous guests over the years, including on many occasions, cat lover Sir Winston Churchill.
OSCAR
Oscar was adopted as a kitten and grew up in a section of a Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in America that treats people with Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s, and other illnesses, most of whom are towards the end stage of their illnesses and death is imminent.
After about six months, staff at the centre noticed that Oscar would do the rounds just like the doctors and nurses. He would sniff and observe patients, then curl up to sleep with certain ones. What surprised the staff was that the patients Oscar chose to sleep with would generally die within two to four hours after his arrival. One of the first cases involved a patient who had a blood clot in her leg that was ice cold at the time. Oscar wrapped his body around her leg and stayed until the woman died. In another instance, the doctor had made a determination of impending death based on the patient's condition, while Oscar simply walked away, causing the doctor to believe that Oscar's streak (12 at the time) had ended. However, it would be later discovered that the doctor's prognosis was simply 10 hours too early – Oscar later visited the patient, who died two hours later.
When Oscar's accuracy reached 25, it led the staff to institute a new and unusual protocol – once he is discovered sleeping with a patient, staff will call family members to notify them of the patient's (expected) impending death.
SOLOMON
Solomon was a white Chinchilla longhair who became a movie star in such films as Diamonds are Forever and Clockwork Orange.
CAT MANDU
"Cat Mandu" was a British ginger tabby cat, and pet of Howling Laud Hope. He was jointly elected leader of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party with Hope after the death of Screaming Lord Such in 1999, and served until his death as a result of a traffic accident in July 2002.
SMUDGE
Smudge was a cat that became a minor celebrity in Glasgow. She was employed by the People's Palace museum in Glasgow Green to deal with a rodent problem in 1979, and became a fixture of the museum, which sold Smudge merchandise including ceramic replicas designed by potter Margery Clinton. In the 1980s, Smudge became a member of the General, Municipal and Boilermakers Trade Union, after NALGO refused her admission as a blue collar worker. Smudge was used as a mascot by a number of campaigns including 'Save the Glasgow Vet School' (1989), 'Paws Off Glasgow Green' (1990). In 1987, Smudge disappeared for a number of weeks, but after a number of appeals including one by the Lord Provost of Glasgow, she was recovered.
Smudge left the People's Palace in 1990 with the departure of Elspeth King, the museum's curator. When Elspeth became director of Stirling's Smith Art Gallery & Museum, Smudge was called on again to deal with a rodent problem. She died at her home in 2000 after a long illness.
