Armenian Van cat

This is for smart assholes, solving their stupid geo/political ambitions with trying to prove there's no breed called VAN CAT or CAT VAN or VAN, or ALAS officially Turkish Cat Van and arguing this with the "FACT" the cats of this breed do not swim on their own, while hunting fishes or jut having any interest to go inside the water.. They say VAN CAT is just a kind of version of angora /ankara/ cat.. and what is remarkable, they have had started to destroy the breed inside Turkey and mix it with albino angoras, to prove the shit they say. They have even built a "scientific institution" near the city of VAN, on VAN lake shore.. The mistake started at the very beginning of the recognition of breed, when Lady Laura Lashington made a vital mistake declaring this is a Turkish cat . Turkey is a name of a country which JUST appeared on the world map in 1918, and this cat lives and had lived on this territories for centuries, I BELIEVE for Millenniums !!! Smart it would be to call the breed Ura ... Կարդալ շարունակությունը »

As you all know, today, the Turks call our pets ''Turks''.Now briefly about who are these beautiful animals and what their story. 
I think it's logical - before calling animal ''ethnicity'', we should learn about a place where they were found first of all and by whom . They are called Van cats and it means that now, we need to talk about the city of Van, about who built it and who lived there (until 1915).
Van (Armenian: Վան), is a city in eastern Turkey's (TODAY) Van Province, and is located on the eastern shore of Lake Van. It is the cultural center of the area's Kurdish majority (TODAY).

The city was   ... Կարդալ շարունակությունը »