Cats with tails can teach as well, but they are not nearly as good as telling tales as a Manx is. It is over compensation for not having a tail.
Another famous Manx is Bob the Pre-school Cat. A urban stray this knew that no toddler or adult could not love his Manx personality. Bob knew that small children drop lots of goodies on the floor at snack time.
Being a round fellow he knew he could teach any child shapes much better than a bouncing ball. Bob adopted the preschool and was loved by the staff, parents, and children. Being an equal opportunity moocher Manx, oh I mean feline devoted to early education for children, Bob the preschool cat did not play favorites or ignore anyone who wanted his attention. Bob unconditionally interacted with the children and was a greatly loved by his students.
The life of Bob was documented in a book Bob the Preschool Cat: A Biography of an Urban Manx Cat by E. Romayne Hertweck, 2009. This book is a great read for kids, and it is apparent Bob was a very proper and polite Manx ( what Manx is’nt ). He never tried to eat the classroom guinea pig or promised the children a A plus in finger painting by bribing them for tuna.. Sable .like Bob appreciates small children too., but only because the usally have something tasty stuck on their faces and often smell like milk. This book contains photographs and is a wonderful book for a child starting preschool or any Manx admirer.
Sable my wise immortal Manx cat has pushed for years for me
to petition congress to have the Manx cat, specifically him replace our
national symbol of the American bald eagle. He points out Manx are much more
appealing then old baldy.
The image of the Manx cat can be found of the coinage of the
Isle of Mann. Three coins bear the Manx cat image on the reverse side. There
are special commemorative crown coins. The first two were issued in the 1970s.
They were stand alone collector coins that came in copper-nickel and silver proofs.
The third coin is part of a series of cat breed coins in
which an hidden Manx is in the background in the coin. These coins are issued
annually in gold and various sizes. The Manx was on official currency for the
Isle of Mann , as the breed appeared on a penny issued between 1980 and 1983.
The Manx cat appears on a number of postage stamps for the
Isle of Man. The latest is a series of collector stamps based on Victorian post
card featuring Manx cats in 2011. Another notable collection featured Manx from
around the world was issued in 1996. Other editions of collector stamps
featuring the Manx have been issued over the years.
Sable would like to be on a coin. He stresses that the coins
should be issued for tuna purposes only and well tune specifically for him.
Sable is also all for Manx stamps that can be used to mail tuna , again
specifically to him.
English: Heavily stylized depiction of a Manx cat and an Turkish Angora (mis-called an "Angola cat" in this old source), from a hand-coloured antique engraving. Original is 5.25 x 4 inches. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Manx can suffer from a serious urinary disorder known as FLUTD. Diet is most frequently cited as a cause for this problem. Foods that are too low in protein and two high in magnesium and carbohydrates are usually the cause. A lot of owners who have had Manx cats diagnosis with FLUTD try the very expensive prescription cat foods. I have a multiple cat house so even with Manx cat that have had these problems I cannot afford the expense of prescription Manx cat food.
There are things you should look for when trying to find a food that discourages feline UTD in commercial canned and dry Manx cat food. You are trying to have your Manx cat maintain a ph of 6.6. Given there is no easy way to monitor your Manx cat's urine ph (and would you really want to) the best you can do is looking for the right diet.
The first ingredient, you are looking for is the protein. The main ingredient in both dry and canned Manx cat food should be fish or meat. Ingredients that we would normally not expect to find in Manx cat food are good for Manx cats urinary tract are cranberries and blueberries. I have seen cranberry as an ingredient in some Fancy Feast formulas but never blueberry. I am sure these are beneficial things but my Manx cats have never been inclined to eat a fruit.
The next things you want to look for on the label are by products. By products such as gluten and other starches are ideally down near the end of the list of ingredients. These are the sources of the excess crabs and magnesium that you want less of in your Manx cat's diet.
Meat and fish by products are the gross things that we as humans would not eat but are ok for your Manx cat because they are sources of protein. Fish by products may be of some concern because of mercury content so I would only feed wet food with fish by products occasionally. The problems is that many times the fish by products are from the fatty part of the fish and these are the part of the fish that may contain the excess mercury.
Other ingredients to pay attention to are the magnesium. Most Manx cat foods will list the amount in percentages and the less the better as magnesium encourages unwanted urinary crystals. Also make sure that the Manx cat food has a significant amount of DL-Methionine which is a sulfur derivative that maintains urinary ph.
The wet verses dry food argument is ongoing. I feed occasionally wet food but feeding it for moisture content to me seems silly if your Manx cats have, access to clean water. I have noticed Manx cats that have been feed exclusively wet diets have more issues with their teeth and weight than Manx cats that have eaten mostly a dry diet. I feed wet food as a treat or, when a Manx cat is old and keeping on the weight is a bigger issue.
My Manx cats eat Alley Manx cat and it solved a lot of the hair ball issues and vomiting issues I had before the more expensive Manx cat food. I mix it with the nine lives urinary tract formula in hopes it makes up for feeding a Manx cat food that has so many by products. So far no one has had a UTD while on this diet.
I have a Manx cat who isand he because of the status of age helps himself to whatever we are eating for dinner. He really likes pasta and French fries. I know it is not good for him, but he is mostly toothless and despite the crabs he is healthy and pretty happy. I would not suggest you feed your Manx cat spaghetti but it seems to be keeping my older Manx cat alive and relatively healthy. I have not tried feeding him cranberries or blue berries I would imagine if I cooked them he would eat them. Off to make the silly round headed old Manx a blueberry pie.
