Singapura cat’s history was an elaborate deception by the founders of the breed

A real Singapura

The Singapura is quite a rare cat breed and arguably the smallest of all the breeds. It looks like a small, elegant product of a cross between Burmese and Abyssinian cats. Critics of the history of the breed as stated by the founders, Mrs Tommy Meadow and her husband Hal Meadow, felt that the …

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How Small Are Singapura Cats?

Singapura Cat

Singapura cats are the smallest cat breed in the cat fancy. On my estimation, they vary in weight from between 4 to 9 pounds or 2 to 4 kg. Clearly not all Singapura’s are very small. But as the lower end of their weight scale is 4 pounds, this is about half or even …

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Singapura Cat

Introduction This is the smallest of the cat breeds with a ticked tabby coat of sepia and a peaceful, retiring temperament1. They are also described as extrovert, curious and playful2. This breed is rare – there were 2,000 cats worldwide as at 19971. The retiring temperament and small size is said to originate in …

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Smallest Breed Of Cat

Singapura – photo copyright Helmi Flick – please respect copyright thank you. The Singapura is commonly regarded as the smallest breed of cat. This cat is said to come from Singapore, hence the name. But a well known cat person1 who went there could not see any on the streets. They are also called …

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Singapura Breed Standard

Singapura Standard Singapura Breed Standard Start again: Home Page or search (recommended):   For this exercise I must thank Sakura Ishihara who kindly granted me permission to add text to her photograph and to lighten it a bit. You can see the original photograph on her Flickr photostream. The inserted photographs are from originals …

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