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When Cats Sold Gin in the Streets of London: Puss and Mew Shops

25 January 2020 Margo Lestz

In eighteenth-century London, illegal gin was sold from a strange precursor of the vending machine which bore the image of a cat.

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Cat Cafés and Why Cats Purr

10 November 2016 Margo Lestz

Have you heard of cat cafés? No, they are not where cats go to have their morning coffee and read the newspaper…

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Marie Antoinette’s Cats and an American Rescue Attempt

6 November 2015 Margo Lestz

Marie Antoinette almost escaped to the USA. Of course, she didn’t make it – but maybe her cats did. Could that be the origin of the Maine Coon?

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The Cats of La Romieu

15 April 2015 Margo Lestz

One of the main tourist attractions in the small medieval village of La Romieu, in southwest France, is the abundance of cats to be found

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