Cats
She also implicated the Korat "a
blue variant of the Siamese, to which our 'blue-pointed' freaks are due."
Jean Bungartz described several bobtailed cats in his 1896 book "Die Hauskatze, ihre Rassen
und Varietäten" (Housecats, Their Races and Varieties) in " Illustriertes Katzenbuch" (An
Illustrated Book of Cats). He noted that according to Brehm Martens, on the Sunda Isles and
in Japan there were cats with different lengths of tail. Kessel had told Weinland that there
were short-tailed cats on Sumatra. Bungartz added that the cats of Cochinchina had only a
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
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