I’m sorry, guys, but you’d hate me if you found out too late that I hadn’t shown you this:
Scene setting: there is a project in Siberia, near Lake Bajkal (the worlds deepest, coldest lake), to create a “biosphere” (no idea what that might be, if not a revisiting of the one US scientists and engineers couldn’t quite make work in Arizona yonks ago), At the site was a derelict railway car and other debris.
To a young female Pallas’s Cat, that railway car seemed a very good choice for a safe home for her as-yet-unborn children, so she set up a nest and in due course produced at least one child.
While Mama was away shopping for food one day, a group of the humans working on the biosphere project came to begin clearing the site. They began by moving the defunct rail car. Whether because she didn’t survive to do it, or couldn’t find the new location of the rail car, or for some other reason, the kitten’s mamashka never returned for her. Eventually the kitten, desperately hungry, started crying and was found.
The project’s principal investigator, Dr Vadim Kirilchuk, agreed that they had to save the life of the infant, now named “Dasha”. They approached the problem with trepidation, since the Pallas’s Cat, though small, has fangs 3x longer than those of the moggies who warm our feet on winter nights, and a face whose expression nearly always seems to be trying to decide whether to kill and eat us, or just kill us.
Go to www.siberiantimes.com, and the page “Rescuing cobalt-eyed baby of the world’s fluffiest cat”. It tells the first part of Dasha’s story
Now go to youtube and the page Спасение детеныша манула: история и продолжением to get as much more of Dashenka’s story as we now have. Voiceover is in Russian, but the photos are good. I’ll translate the voiceover as soon as I can. As my Russian is rusty, anyone else can have a go if they like, I won’t mind.
RAGs almost 2 years ago
Five gallons of cat in a ten gallon hat.
derdave969 almost 2 years ago
New meaning to all hat and no cat-tle.
loridobson Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Big Hoss.
grocks almost 2 years ago
cat in a hat in a hat
Zebrastripes almost 2 years ago
Awwww! He’s waiting for Yellowstone to start……giddy-up pardner!
Puuuurfect size for comfort!
pheets almost 2 years ago
Cat in the hat… in the hat.
WaitingMan almost 2 years ago
Ten Gallon Cat.
kauri44 almost 2 years ago
Like many creative kitties he wears more than one hat.
NaturLvr almost 2 years ago
Giddy-up!
4892624 almost 2 years ago
All hats, no cattle?
stillfickled Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Ten-gallon fat cat in the hat. (if someone has said this, I apologize.)
Red Bird almost 2 years ago
Aww, he is really cute!
edeloriea14 almost 2 years ago
The cat with a hat in a hat!
Màiri almost 2 years ago
I’m sorry, guys, but you’d hate me if you found out too late that I hadn’t shown you this:
Scene setting: there is a project in Siberia, near Lake Bajkal (the worlds deepest, coldest lake), to create a “biosphere” (no idea what that might be, if not a revisiting of the one US scientists and engineers couldn’t quite make work in Arizona yonks ago), At the site was a derelict railway car and other debris.
To a young female Pallas’s Cat, that railway car seemed a very good choice for a safe home for her as-yet-unborn children, so she set up a nest and in due course produced at least one child.
While Mama was away shopping for food one day, a group of the humans working on the biosphere project came to begin clearing the site. They began by moving the defunct rail car. Whether because she didn’t survive to do it, or couldn’t find the new location of the rail car, or for some other reason, the kitten’s mamashka never returned for her. Eventually the kitten, desperately hungry, started crying and was found.
The project’s principal investigator, Dr Vadim Kirilchuk, agreed that they had to save the life of the infant, now named “Dasha”. They approached the problem with trepidation, since the Pallas’s Cat, though small, has fangs 3x longer than those of the moggies who warm our feet on winter nights, and a face whose expression nearly always seems to be trying to decide whether to kill and eat us, or just kill us.
Go to www.siberiantimes.com, and the page “Rescuing cobalt-eyed baby of the world’s fluffiest cat”. It tells the first part of Dasha’s story
Now go to youtube and the page Спасение детеныша манула: история и продолжением to get as much more of Dashenka’s story as we now have. Voiceover is in Russian, but the photos are good. I’ll translate the voiceover as soon as I can. As my Russian is rusty, anyone else can have a go if they like, I won’t mind.
MVMartinek almost 2 years ago
Cat in a hat, in a hat!