Zoey the Cool Cat’s ancestry

Zoey the Cool Cat is a ginger tabby-colored American Shorthair, sometimes called a Domestic Shorthair.

I think back when I was growing up in Kingsville, Texas, they were called “alley cats.”

Zoey the Cool Cat has huge hind legs and haunches, leading us to believe that daddy might have been a jackrabbit.

A recent picture that Jim captured on his smartypants phone seems to indicate that mommy might have been a ring-tailed lemur.

To wit:

Zoey the Cool Cat and her huge tail

Ring-tailed lemur

My pictures of the ring-tailed lemurs at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park are poor — they never cooperate with me — so I had to borrow that picture from Wikipedia.

It was there that I found out that the scientific name for the ring-tailed lemur is Lemur catta.

Lemur CATta!

Ah-ha! The proof is in the pudding.

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