British Shorthair
☙ History ❧
The British Shorthair has a starring role in the great-cats-of-culture genre as the famous Cheshire Cat in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. But this chubby-cheeked beauty has a pedigree that goes beyond literature: He’s one of the oldest English cats and dates back to Roman times, with stints as a barn cat hunting mice before retiring to the household in modern times to beguile us by the fireside.
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