A Michael Broad Blog
Perhaps the most significant two facts about this cat breed is that it is France’s only purebred cat and the breed standard has remained untouched throughout the breed’s existence in the cat fancy which started in the late 1800s. This is because the intention is to maintain the original appearance. You can see this …
Here are 28 succinct facts about the Chartreux cat in bullet fashion to make the reading of this post more convenient. The breed is relatively rare and hails from France. The Chartreux cat is a French cat breed. It is what distinguishes this breed from all others and there is a long history. It …
The owner’s story about the all-grey cat, Naul, is that “He is as mischievous as he looks”. He certainly does look mischievous but the strongest aspect of his expression is his smile. I don’t think I’ve seen a stronger smile on the face of a domestic cat and of course I’ve seen hundreds of …
This very nice French cat breed’s origins and history are confusing. The connection with the Carthusian monks appears to have been fabricated to add mystique to the breed. It was probably created by selectively breeding random bred cats and that is certainly the case after WWII.
I don’t think you can generalize and say that cat breeds are less healthy than the rest of the cats. There is, though, a feeling that inbreeding, a part of creating cat breeds, leads to less healthy animals because inbreeding brings forward recessive genes associated with deleterious health issues. Breeders inbreed (selectively breed) to …
This article is about the personality of the Chartreux cat. The reason why I am writing this is because Gloria visited the Chartreux Owner page and agreed with the author that the Chartreux has a particularly good personality (“They are simply the best”). I thought I would check that out. A brief background first …
The Chartreux is a breed of cat that is probably best know for three things: A long history going back many hundreds of years; Being almost unchanged over these years (this is what breeders want) and…. Being French. Background and History The Chartreux is France’s only purebred pedigree cat and it is a part …
There are four grey cat breeds. These are cats that the cat associations say must be grey. In North America “grey” is spelled “gray”. Grey cats have a blue tinge. For this reason cat breeders call them “blue”. Korat The name comes from an area in Thailand called “Korat”. These cats, which have a …
