What affects us affects cats
Yes, the Toyger is a real cat breed and a fairly modern one. The underlying goal of the breeders was to create a purebred cat that looks like a miniature or toy tiger. I think it’s in line with some early ideas about some cat breeds when breeders first introduced the wild cat hybrids …
Here is a compact Toyger infographic. The word ‘Toyger’ can only mean the artificially bred and created ‘toy tiger’ purebred domestic cat from America. The creation of Judy Sugden (the daughter of the founder of the Bengal cat, Jean Mill, incidentally). I think she thought that she could create a perfect miniature copy of …
This is a cat photo that was used in an advert for Newman’s Own Organic pet food. Apparently it’s been online since 2013. There is a discussion as to whether the photo is genuine and whether is depicts a Toyger kitten. A Toyger is a fancy breed of cat selectively bred to look like …
This is a neat photograph of a Toyger in a tree by Michelle Groskopf of the New York Times which I have taken the liberty of publishing on my website. I hope that she doesn’t mind. It is nice to write about the exotic cat breeds from time to time. The Toyger is quite …
To to more precise, the question means what domestic cat looks like a tiger and the answer to the question is the Toyger. This is a selectively bred, artificially created purebred cat with the intention of having the appearance of a tiger. The breed was developed by refining and clarifying the mackerel tabby pattern …
The title should read “domestic cat that looks like a tiger” because officially there is only one domestic cat that looks like a tiger (or is meant to look like a tiger) and it is a purebred cat called the Toyger, the “toy” “tiger”. I guess nowadays a lot of people have heard of …
The Toyger is a “Frankencat”, so said an American television presenter. He was being impolite. He was referring to hybrid cats. The Toyger is a hybrid cat. Hybrid cats are nearly always man or woman-made; a human creation. When hybrid cats are also domestic cats they are sometimes referred to as “exotic cats”. They …
These are the cat photos that stick in my mind for whatever reason from the 11,500 currently on PoC. They are in a slideshow. They are not all photos of purebred cats and I have deliberately excluded photographs of cats that live with PoC regulars and my cats. Please use the right and left …
