Marvelous Meezers What is extremely smart has a sleek silky body beautiful blue eyes and just loves to talk or meow with its owner The answer is a Siamese cat There are many different types or breeds of cats in the world A purebred cat has ancestors that all came from the same breed So its parents grandparents great grandparents and so on all looked similar Siamese cats are purebred cats They are one of the oldest cat breeds that people know about In fact these cats have been around for so long that no one can even say how or when the breed got started Perfect Purr Facts Siamese cats are often called Meezers by their owners This nickname comes from mese the last syllable in the word
A Siamese kitten
Cool Cat Legends The history of Siamese cats is lost in time We do know however that they came from Siam a country in Asia Today Siam is called Thailand When travelers to Siam brought back cats to countries such as Britain and the United States legends about the cats came too Some old stories said that Siamese cats lived in temples Others said that the cats were the favorites of royalty and important noble families One legend said that when a person from a noble family died his or her spirit would continue living inside the body of one of the family's Siamese cats The cat would then go to live in a temple Here the cat would live in luxury cared for by servants and the temple priests A Siamese cat
Perfect Purr Facts A white cat with a black face ears paws and tail appears in poems known as Tamra Maew or Cat Poems The poems are from Thailand and are hundreds of years old A temple in modern day Thailand
