Non-UK animal lovers

[wolf63]

I have two cats that are pure moggie. All the cats that I know are moggies. I knew somebody once who had a Burmese cat.

But all all moggies across the road the same animal? Cows seem to differ in certain countries (and probably other animals too) but are our little furry moggie friends the same animal? Totally exclude pedigrees.

I really hope that the above makes sense. It is silly o'clock in the morning and my furry alarm went off way too soon.

[swedeheart]

Hello wolf, question makes sense. I don't know the answer. One would first have to know what a typically British moggie looks like. I can only imagine. Seems reasonable that there would be some genetic variation though. Common moggies are called bondkatt here; it means farmer's cat and there are many different kinds even of those, of course. Here's one of a kind...! that I found on YouTube for you by googling in Swedish.

[wolf63]

The clip appears to be a Swedish nutty water cat. ;-)

The photograph is of an English moggie I think - Scottish moggies are tougher and wear tartan hats with ginger hair attached. Scottish cats would also kill you for thinking that they are English! ;-)

As the experts are not really sure what species of feline our little furry monsters derive from how are we supposed to know the answer to questions such as this.

tack sj�lv till deras svar. God natt.

[swedeheart]

Ye hae a guid Scots tung in yir heid wolf. So Frankiecat and Princess Merlin are Scottish? Something like this? (Now she's gonna tell me it's the wrong colour tartan;-)

[wolf63]

I think our family tartan is grey ish - but it is near enough.

Are you Swedish? I am amazed that Swedish people speak English with barely any accent. I attempted to learn French at school - and failed.

[swedeheart]

<< Username clue to whether or not I'm Swedish ha ha! <Does that question mean she has so far thought I was a turnip??>

Seriously though I'm all Swedish in every way and I live in Sweden, always have. I use online dictionaries a lot for reading and writing on the AnswerBank; my spoken is broken ;-) and it's a terrible mix of American English and UK English. Swedish television airs a lot of American films and British drama, they did when I was a child too (ah the Forsyte Saga, and UpstairsDownstairs - loved it). I don't think I would have learned just through school. I'm guessing it's the same for most of my fellow... er... turnips;-)

[wolf63]

In this part of the world turnips are neeps and not Swedes but vegetables did come to mind when I typed the last message.

You could have been from England and living in Sweden. My brother lives in England - silly boy!

My brother used to work with some guys from India and their version of English was antiquated and they used words that, though correct, are not in general use these days.

In Scotland we write English but our spoken English can be pretty hard to understand - especially towards the north.

Some moron even studied cats and decided that each has a vocabulary of about 30 'words' some of which were verbs and that they spoke with different dialects. :-)

I am off to see when CSI is on - the cats like watching it for some reason.

[swedeheart]

I didn't think I could be mistaken for an Englishwoman, wolf, but thanks. <besides, I wanted to make the turnip joke>

Yes many cats are addicted to watching crime series. They're in it for the red herring you know :-)

'Night!

[happy_face]

In Denmark it's called a "G�rdkat" = barnyard cat and yes they're exactly the same as the UK Moggy.

Blimey is it only Scandies who will answer a Non-UK question :-)

[swedeheart]

We must be trying to atone for the Viking... er... incidents...

(So you from Denmark, happy_face?)

[IWillRule]

Well in New York there's not many cats. In North Yorkshire there's not many either because the dogs rule! ;)

[wolf63]

So far this thread has a Swede, a Dane and a Scot - there has to be a joke there somewhere.

;-)

[swedeheart]

:-d

[swedeheart]

Oh no, it's the tongue again! I write :-D but it comes out as :-d

[wolf63]

IWillRule - are you a Yorkshire person in New York?

My friend and I have been saving up to go shopping there for about 20 years.... New York that is and not Yorkshire.

I like dogs - they will always be your best friend. A cat will bite the hand that feeds it!

[IWillRule]

Well I'm originally from New York but my Dad's job means we had to go to North Yorkshire. It rains a lot.... :(

[coccinelle]

Just for the record, moggies in France are called gutter cats, but when you take them along to the vets to get injections etc they write European cat next to breed! I think they can then vote...

[wolf63]

Maybe if cats could vote we would have a better standard of politician.

My cat has his own mewspaper.

http://frankiemerlin.livejournal.com/

[coccinelle]

Geniale wolf - a mewspaper... can't get better than that!!!

[swedeheart]

...only thing wrong with it is that it's updated far too seldom :-( Still, no mews is good mews, I suppose!

[swedeheart]

Tried to post a letter to the Editor the other day Frankie but comments are disabled unless you're a registered LiveJournal user, now what's up with that, Mr Editor, how are we supposed to worship at your paws unless you unlock the cat flap, eh.

Well anyway, Mr Editor, what I wanted to say is that I can see that you are a fine art connoisseur - as well as one handsome son of a gun - as you have chosen to have your picture taken with the same painting in the background that I used to have on my wall many many moons ago. Unless my eyes deceive me, on the photo where you pose in a cardboard box, there's a painting of a white teddy bear all alone in a crowd of people's feet scurrying past, and he holds a pencil in his paw, right? I eventually gave mine away but I did love that picture:-)

Well anyway Mr Editor, keep up the good work and be nice to your sister and Mum!