The blue eyes of Atlas and Trico crackle and sparkle. There is almost a texture in them. I am not sure why these eyes have this ‘texture’ as I have described it. A lack of pigmentation in the iris of eyes makes them blue because of white light refraction. This is why the eyes …
The Angora cat is the Turkish Angora, just for the sake of clarity. Secondly, we should take cat breed personality with a pinch of salt. Perhaps this is being too cynical but we should be cautious in branding an entire group of cats with the same identical personality for the obvious reason that each …
There is nothing in the books that I have read or online which suggest that Turkish Angora cats as a breed are hypoallergenic. However some individual cats might be. The truth of the matter is that there are no cat breeds which are hypoallergenic. The only one that gets some sort of recognition as …
by Bill (Canada) Damiel Intro: This is wonderful story from a visitor. It is not often I receive such a complete, moving and intense story about the life of a cat written by a visitor. My thanks to Bill. Damiel came to live with me on January the 10th 2000 from the local SPCA. …
This lady wants to modify her cat’s behaviour. He is a 7-month-old Turkish Angora (TA). She didn’t realise it until recently that he is deaf. Turkish Angoras are not uncommonly born deaf and sometimes have odd-eye color (blue and yellow) both for the same reason: the presence of the while spotting (piebald gene) or …
This is a real Turkish Angora from the streets of Turkey and it comes from the The Angora Cat Association – Ankara Kedisi Derneği website. There is a page about the real Turkish Angora on PoC. This is an interesting cat breed because the real Turkish Angora is a street cat coming in many …
The distinguished and important cat breed, the Turkish Angora, has been hijacked not once but twice. While the real Turkish Angora resides in Turkey the American cat fancy has created a new cat and given it the name “Turkish Angora”. It is not even a good replica of the original. It neither looks like …
The origins and history of the Turkish Angora are interesting and perhaps a paradigm case of how all ‘discovered’ breeds started out and how many of the cat breeds still have their non-pedigree, non-purebred counterparts. The street cats that were the foundation cats of the discovered breeds are still there on the streets. They …
