American Bobtail

Diet

I quote a breeder here (Aloeway Cattery). They feed raw meat to reflect what a wild Bobcat (possible ancestor) would eat. They go one step further and feed the whole animal, such as rabbit, chicken and quail. This is interesting bearing in mind what I say above about the origin of this breed. They make the point that when cats are feed dry food they do not drink enough to compensate. They have a point there, I believe. I feed my Moggie fish to compensate (there is a lot of water in the fish I buy). Click here to read about various aspects of cat food or about a raw food diet.

Above: Orange tabby – Photo by geekygirlnyc (Flickr)

Breeders, Clubs and standard

Clubs: American Bobtail Breeders Club Cat Fanciers Association Breed Standard

Some breeders: These are the top ranked breeders websites in Google at 2008 – things change. Why is this a reasonable way of selecting breeders? To be top ranked you need to have been around a while (a good sign) and be organized. These are free standing sites not part of a directory. They are all listed in the top 3 pages on a search for this breed. I cannot vouch for these breeders. Please check them out carefully and please don’t travel long distances on the presumption that you will buy without doing further research first. Also they will all stop breeding due course. If a website is shut down you might be taken to a website selling domains or with advertising.

• I’d like to make a special mention of this breeder: Beloved American Bobtails,
  Cherry Hill, NJ, USA. This cattery is run by Ellen R. Brenner.
• Aloeway Breeding Bobtails since 1995. You can see some nice photographs of a Bobtail playing with a dog on this website. This site is Alexa ranked about 4m with no Google PageRank (little or no inbound links). It is the first to come up as a breeder on its own though (i.e. not as part of a directory)
• Catalons American Bobtail Google listed on 1st page. Located about 20 km outside Los Angeles.
• Attitude Acres This is a small, family run, cattery, specializing in chocolates and chocolate silver American Bobtails. Attitudeacres is pleased to announce they are home and breeder of TICA first IW and LIFETIME achievement winner, Attitudeacres Murony.
• Buckeyebobbis American Bobtails This cattery is located in Ohio. Their website has a Pagerank and is traffic ranked (Alexa) about 7.5m worldwide (the ranking for all websites, there are 57m websites).
• Nachrel American Bobtails This site has a PageRank and a traffic ranking of about 5m.

See: TICA American bobtail standard

1. http://animal.discovery.com

Source:

• breeder sites especially the ones above
• www.americanbobtail.com
• www.cfainc.org
• http://www.catalons.com

Source other than the above:

1. Legacy of the Cat by Gloria Stephens and Tetsu

2. CFA Breed Standard

3. http://animal.discovery.com/breedselector/catprofile.do?id=5010