Purebred Pets - Cat Breeds

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Cat breeds vary from registry to registry, and from country to country. Sometimes the same cat will be considered a different breed in different places. Some cat breeds are well established, while others are experimental and new, or have nearly disappeared from lack of breeders. Most cats are what are called domestic longhairs, domestic shorthairs, or moggies ? all terms that simply describe a cat that is of no distinct breed or pure bloodline.

Cat breeds vary from the petite Munchkin to the big Norweigan Forest Cat, from the hairless Sphynx to the long, thick coat of a Persian. Perhaps because cats are so independent, and tend to choose their own people and places to stay and are quite ready to simply take themselves elsewhere they are one of the few domesticated animals that we have not tinkered with to extremes. Unlike dogs, which we have bred down to the diminutive chihuahua, and up to the massive Great Dane or horses that vary from draft horses like the Clydesdale to the dainty Miniature Horses, cats have proven quite resistant to selective breeding.

I?ve also heard it said that every trace of a pure cat breed will disappear in only three generations of breeding with non-purebred cats. However, I have seen distinctly Siamese colored and type kittens show up in a litter that did not have a Siamese parent. Manx cats are purposely bred to cats who have normal tails in order to avoid physical problems created by breeding a tailess cat to another tailess cat. And did you know that litters of kittens can have more than one father?

Here is a list of cat breeds that I will be using to write articles about purebred cats for this blog. If you have a favorite breed that you don?t see here, feel free to contact me and tell me about them! You can always email me at sffoovayATgmail.com.

Abyssinian
Aegean cat
Australian Mist
American Polydactyl
American Bobtail
American Curl
American Longhair
American Shorthair
American Wirehair
Asian
Asian Semi-longhair
Balinese
Bambino
Bengal
Birman
Bombay
Brazilian Shorthair
British Shorthair
British Longhair
Burmese
Burmilla
California Spangled Cat
Chantilly/Tiffany
Chartreux
Chausie
Cheetoh
Colorpoint Shorthair
Cornish Rex
Cymric
Cyprus Shorthair
Devon Rex
Domestic Shorthair Cat
Donskoy
Dragon Li
Egyptian Mau
European Shorthair
Exotic Shorthair
Foreign White
German Rex
Havana Brown
Himalayan (also called Colorpoint Persian)
Japanese Bobtail
Javanese
Korat
Kurilian Bobtail
LaPerm
Maine Coon
Manx
Mekong bobtail
Minskin
Munchkin
Nebelung
Napolean
Norweigan Forest Cat
Ocicat
Ojos Azules
Oregon Rex
Oriental Bicolor
Oriental Shorthair
Oriental Longhair
Persian
Peterbald
Pixie-bob
Ragamuffin
Ragdoll
Russian Blue
Russian White, Black, and Tabby
Savannah
Scottish Fold
Selkirk Rex
Serengeti Cat
Siamese
Siberian
Singapura
Snowshoe
Sokoke
Somali
Sphynx
Thai (Old style Siamese)
Tonkinese
Toyger
Turkish Angora
Turkish Van
Ukrainian Levkoy
Ussuri
York Chocolate Cat

Thank you to Wikipedia for the basis of this list.

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