Scenic Maine harbour

About 250 years ago when New England and particularely Maine was less thickly settled our ancestors came as shipcats to the land. We cats had our special place in the ship crew. Our job was to minimize the riffraff of rats and mice to avoid the outbreak of deseases and to preserve the store of food. A shipcat had to be very sturdy to cope with the circumstances at a sailing vessel. Sometimes a seacat missed the departure of its ship and was left behind in the harbour. Sometimes sailors brought in longhaired cats like Persians and Turkish from foreign countries and sold them or gave them away to friends and relatives in the villages along the coast. For many decades the way on sea was the only connection to the isolated harbours of Maine. In this isolation the left shipcats mixed with the existing landcats until they had finally developed a distinct original type.

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