Round Faced, Big Eyed Cats are super cute but can you really tell how they’re feeling?

Rachael Uriarte
4 min readFeb 5, 2021

Cats bred with exaggerated facial features like round, flat faces, and big eyes, might be harder to understand emotionally.

Potato, a British shorthair with a brachycephalic face. Image courtesy of Grant Conboy

It takes Potato, an eight-year-old British Shorthair cat, forever to eat. Her owner, artist Grant Conboy, says that this isn’t because of her couch-potato temperament as her given name implies…

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Rachael Uriarte

British. Writer and Conservationist. Child of the Commonwealth.