Royal Clowder Society of Caithness
In the north of Scotland, where the Highlands jut out to touch the Shetland Islands, there is the County of Caithness, previous home of a tribe of Picts, the Catti, from which it takes its name.
On the border with the County of Sutherland, the last reliefs stand out, preceding the vast flat expanse that gently accompanies to the sea.
Here, Mount Morven and its neighbors form what, from above, appears just like the silhouette of a cat’s footprint. And it is precisely among these heights that an old and abandoned castle is said to be hidden, not shown on any map. Since it is known that all legends have a fund of truth, it will not surprise you to know that this castle does exist, and is the seat of the most renowned academy of historical-scientific studies in the feline world: the Royal Clowder Society of Caithness. The manor is a massive structure of gray stones, with four cylindrical towers to delimit the vertices, surrounded by a wide and deep moat, always full of water, and this make it seem almost floating on its surface, a characteristic that it has maintained to this day.
The history of the origins of this institution is ancient and quite adventurous, so let me tell you about it.
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