This very recent breed was developed from a number of others. These are said to include a spotted Manx, silver-spotted tabby long-hair, seal-point Siamese, British and American Short-hairs, feral cats from Cairo, and Asian non-pedigrees. The new breed arrived in the USA to a fanfare. The Holy Grail of producing the strikingly spot-patterned, wild-looking cats – almost achieved with the development of the Ocicat – was finally located when the California Spangled cat was successfully produced and offered to Americans as one of the most expensive designer cats available. The extraordinary price for these naturally marked kittens was deliberately fixed at an artificially high level, because the breed was developed to help create funding for use in highlighting the plight of large wild cats in nature.
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