Mille Fleurs

Meet my little Princess. She is called Myla Secunda Richly-Angorsky. I call her Mille, which is ‘thousand’ in French, sounding like the English ‘mill’, which in Russian is ‘he is nice’.

She is after the summer shedding of hair now, sorry…

2 essays on her
http://ohlala007.blog.co.uk/2007/10/11/miscellanea~3118263
http://ohlala007.blog.co.uk/2008/01/29/icebound_minstrel_potpourri~3648875
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*my late tomcat*

This is my cute little boy tabby Barrwick. The photo is not so good. He did not trust the photographer, and I had to hold him tight, and another moment, after the picture had been taken, he broke away from my hands.
When he lived with me, I used to talk with him in this way: “Q: Who had thick impressive side-whiskers and a white dickey? A: Writer Pushkin! And now Barrwick has all this.” Hearing that, Barrwick puffed up yet more. He inclined to musing and contemplation indeed, like an intellectual or at least like a young student. And he had so thick belly that several times, when I took him out for a walk (which was my big mistake, because he disappeared eventually), seeing him in my arms people asked: “Your kitty is impregnate?”
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*the ancient deity*
For the ancient Egypt lovers, their pet cat is a living true souvenir from ancient Egypt.
“…Due to the severe disaster to the food supply that could be caused by simple vermin such as mice and rats, and their ability to fight and kill snakes, especially cobras, cats in ancient Egypt were revered highly, sometimes being given golden jewelry to wear and being allowed to eat from the same plates as their owners. Consequently, later as the main cat rather than lioness deity, Bastet was strongly revered as the patron of cats, and thus it was in the temple at Per-Bast (Bubastis in Greek) that dead and mummified cats were brought for burial. More than 300,000 mummified cats were discovered when Bast's temple at Per-Bast was excavated.
…By the Middle Kingdom Bastet came to be regarded as a domestic cat rather than a lioness. Occasionally, however, she was depicted holding a lioness mask, which hinted at suppressed ferocity. Because domestic cats tend to be tender and protective toward their offspring, Bast was also regarded as a good mother, and she was sometimes depicted with numerous kittens. Consequently, a woman who wanted children sometimes wore an amulet showing the goddess with kittens, the number of which indicated her own desired number of children.
…The merging of identities of similar goddesses has led to considerable confusion, leading to some associating things such as the title Mistress of the Sistrum, and the Greek idea of her as a lunar goddess rather the solar deity she was. Indeed, much of this confusion occurred in subsequent generations, as the identities slowly merged, as with the Greeks during their occupation of Egypt, who sometimes named her Ailuros (Greek for cat), thinking of Bastet as a version of Artemis, their own moon goddess. And thus, to fit their own cosmology, to the Greeks, Bastet was thought of as the sister of Horus, who they identified as Apollo (Artemis' brother), and consequently, the daughter of the later emerging deities, Isis and Osiris.” (from Wikipedia)

In my childhood and youth, as long as I can remember, I was about to be a biologist to work with animals when grow up. I won’t say why I changed my mind, but I still love animals, and it’s my firm belief that the people who work with animals are more careful and considerate to human beings than some physicians or artists.
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