unless you call our house a zoo with 2 dogs and 3 cats!
This is Inca our Somali who was backlit on our garden fence.
The first Somali cats appeared in the litters of Abyssinians as long-haired kittens. In the 1940s a British breeder named Janet Robertson exported some Abyssinian kittens to Australia, New Zealand and North America. Descendants of these cats occasionally produced kittens with long or fuzzy coats. In 1963, Mary Mailing, a breeder from Canada, entered one into a local pet show. Ken McGill, the show's judge, asked for one for breeding purposes.
An American Abyssinian breeder Evelyn Mague, also received longhairs from her cats, which she named "Somalis". Don Richings, another Canadian breeder, used kittens from McGill, and began to work with Mague. The first Somali recognized as such by a fancier organization was Mayling Tutsuta, one of McGill's cats. As of the late 1970s, the Somali was fully accepted in North America. The new breed was accepted in Europe in the 1980s. By 1991, the breed was broadly (though not universally) accepted internationally.
Info from wikipedia.
a cat I do like - they are striking
not a zoo though Chantal we have 1 dog, 3 snakes, a blue tongue, five spiders and a snail as permanent residents - and at the moment another blue tongue a King parrot and a kookaburra as guests hahahahaha
not a zoo though Chantal we have 1 dog, 3 snakes, a blue tongue, five spiders and a snail as permanent residents - and at the moment another blue tongue a King parrot and a kookaburra as guests hahahahaha