I want to say they were featured on coinage and postal stamps, and Norton used the Manx cat on a lot of their badges, pins, and sew-ons.
Anyway, the cat itself is well known for its hunting skills and strength, the latter made it a preferred ship's cat, able to take the largest rats with impunity, which explains how the gene got here and elsewhere in the world.
I've never had one that could jump for a dam, not like a regular cat. However, I've never seen one bested for climbing. They run straight up that big cat tree I built here (The Trainasium) as fast as they run across the floor. Horizontal, vertical, makes no difference. Not graceful or lithe, just speed and power. They never cease to impress me.
And yet they are as a rule cheerful, lively, socialised, very attached to each other and their chosen humans but very shy of strangers. Poppet might have been the only exception I've had live with us; she was supremely confident in her abilities, brooked no fools, yet wasn't the typical shy Manx. She'd greet anyone and was very gracious about it, but would just as happily shred them if they didn't behave to her expectation.
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