Tigerlilly - Lobsang Rampa

CHAPTER NINETEEN
Cats, like people and automobiles, come in many different
shapes, sizes, colors and types. Cats have a leg at each corner,
just the same as the automobile has a wheel at each corner, and
most cats have a tail, although the Manx cat does not and it
definitely handicaps the poor creature when turning a corner
at a dead run.
First, there is the ordinary, good old phlegmatic house-
cat—most people call it the ordinary cat. Now, they have a
peculiarity in that they are attached to their home, to the house
in which they live, and when the family moves away, then very
frequently the ordinary house-cat says some four-letter words
and sets out on a travel back to his original home.
The ordinary house-cat has legs of approximately the same
length, but when you come to a Siamese cat that is a different
thing altogether. The Siamese cat has longer legs at the back
so when you see one for the first time you think the poor
creature is walking downhill, but the Siamese cat is highly in-
telligent, highly sensitive, and unlike the ordinary house-cat
the Siamese cat is attached to the family and not to the home,
and when the home is broken up so that the people move
away, the Siamese cat says the feline equivalent of ‘Phooey—
glad to get shot of that dump’ and off he goes happily with his
so-called owner to a new domain.
Burmese cats are much the same as Siamese cats and you
can say that they are the Rolls-Royce and the Cadillac of the
cat world, but they have to be treated gently. They are ex-
tremely sensitive and they demand love in large quantities. If
a person is going out to work, then it is a definitely cruel thing
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