Cats
short, curled tail and the Madagascar cat had a turned, knotted tail.
R Shelford, former Curator of the Sarawak Museum wrote in his book "A Naturalist in
Borneo" "It may be mentioned here that the domestic cat of the Malays is quite a distinct
variety [...] it is a very small tabby with large ears and a body and hind-legs so long that it
lacks all grace. The tail is either an absurd twisted knot or else very short and terminating in a
knob; this knotting of the tail is caused by a natural dislocation of the vertebrae so that they
join onto each other at all sorts of angles." The length of hind-leg was a trait shared by the
Manx, leading some cat-fanciers to believe that the two were related.
Miss Lowndes, daughter of the novelist Mrs Belloc Lowndes described a Malay kitten that
she had acquired. It had recently arrived, along with its mother, from the Straits Settlements.
"It has a triple-kinked tail
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