La St Mandrienne

What’s big news here?

Biggest news is something little. I was midwife to a cat variously known as Pamponette, Vampirette and Chat, on the arrival of this little fella, aged 1 hour in the picture below;

Mother and littl’un doing fine.

In other news from our “run away the south of France is on fire” desk, there was a fire in a forest near Toulon today that literally turned the sky black. I didn’t take a photo but believe you me, black it was and the sun disappeared which is a rare occassion here, except at night obviously, when it isn’t.

So in the spirit of all things cat, I was explaining to my nephew aged 4 and niece aged 9 today that the biggest cat in the world ever is a Liger, a rare hybrid of Lion and Tiger, hence the name. Ligers are the name of the product of a Lion father and a Tiger mother. When the mum’s a Lion, they become Tigons because the world is sexist like that and they are less big than Ligers and less good looking.

Have a look at some Ligers;

(Liger is the hairy fella on left with worried looking tiger on right for scale purposes)

Big ain’t they? In a jaw dropping, oh-mi-god-is-that-real kind of way.

So I shared with my nephew and niece the rhyme I made about Ligers and Tigons which helps you remember which way round the sizes go.

Ready?

Ligers are bigger than Tigons,
And Tigons are bigger than Cats,
And if Ligers and Tigons lived in your house,
You’d never have trouble with rats.

Thankyou. X

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