What actually is a Cheshire cat?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_Ca… It’s just a fictional cat that Lewis Carroll made popular in his Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland book. Even before he wrote it, there were a few references in English literature to the “grinning Cheshire cat,” but there isn’t any particular explanation to why the region of Cheshire particularly should have smiling felines. It may be that the town of Chester (in the county of Cheshire) just had a lot of stray cats hanging around its cheese factory. But it’s not a specific breed. Jasper Fforde, in his Tuesday Next novels, points out that it should really be renamed the Unitary Authority of Waarington Cat, due to regional boundary changes since the publication of Carroll’s novel.
