Cat Fact Files

You can contact a breeder through professional registers of your local veterinary surgery. You will need to discuss breed standards to ensure that any resulting kittens measure up and will therefore find good homes. You will also need to talk about the fee structure, and then arrange to have your queen mated. An alternative for [...]

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Are you looking for a beautiful and docile breed? Are you seeking a family pet that is sweet, calm and affectionate? Have you spent hours searching information on living with kittens, but find yourself back to square one every time you log off the Internet? Just relax; here is an end to your search.
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There is a long-haired Oriental breed, named after the Far Eastern island of Java. It looks like a cross between a Siamese and a broad-tailed Maine Coon type. In Britain, the name Javanese is attributed to kittens that aimed at recovering the Angora breed. In North America the name tends to be associated with Balinese [...]

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Named after the Welsh word or Wales (Cymru), this is a rare long-haired type of Manx cat. It is therefore characterized by its tail slump plus longer coat. There are some lovely color forms, including orange-eyed white and reds, with three different tail-forms – ‘rumpy’ (almost no tail), ‘stumpy’ (very short tail) and ‘longy’ (extended [...]

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The earliest record of the ragdoll is open to some speculation, because it was said to have originated from a mis-mated Californian Persian queen. The supposed charm of the blue-eyed Ragdoll is that it naturally becomes limp when handled. This characterstic has mythically been attributed to the litter mother giving birth after suffering a broken [...]

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The Persian cat we know today in all its various collour forms is one of the oldest pedigree breeds around. It also has one of the longest and bushiest coats among the long-haired group of cats. The incredible density of the Persian coat is due to the combination of a large amount of ‘down’ or [...]

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This breed originated from long-haired kittens from Abyssiinian cat litters. It has a vibrant coat that shimmers due to each individual hair having multiple bands of colour. Named after the Somali African state adjacent to Ethiopia (formerly known as Abyssinia), the name indicates with the Abyssinian cat: the Somali cat is characterized as a medium- [...]

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The first Scottsh Fold, recorded in 1951, was a short-haired cat, as was one of her kittens. owever, the breeding programme that resulted from this produced long-haired kittens. This breed is characterized by its thick coat and a deformity that causes the distinctive folded or flap-backed ears. The kittens are actually born with straight ears [...]

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This distinctively white-footed cat was developed in the USA in the 1960s. It arose from a series of crosses between Siamese cats and American short-hairs and is rarely found outside North America. There are two different patterns of Snowshoe cat: the mitted, which has little white, and the bi-colour which has more white on the [...]

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