A Michael Broad Blog
Miss Frances Simpson was one of three major personalities in the early years of the cat fancy in England. She wrote a book called The Book of the Cat which was published in 1903. In that book she refers to the first American cat show held in the Madison Square Garden, New York, on …
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 …
It is instructional to remind ourselves what a badly bred purebred cat looks like. Here we have an Exotic Shorthair, the shorthaired version of the Persian. The facial anatomy has been distorted by poor selective breeding. The eyes bulge and appear to point in different directions. It is almost as if the eyes are …
Well, Persian cats should come from Persia which is now Iran. Of course we are referring to the original Persian cats because nowadays you can say that Persians mainly come from America where they are extensively bred. For decades Persians were and perhaps still are the world’s most popular breed. In counties with the …
In the early 1990s the CFA top ten breeds were as follows: Rank Breed Registrations % 1 Persian 79.4 2 Siamese 5.5 3 Abyssinian 3.6 4 Maine coon 2.8 5 Burmese 1.9 6 Oriental Shorthair 1.6 7 American Shorthair 1.6 8 Exotic Shorthair 1.3 9 Scottish Fold 1.2 10 Colorpoint Shorthair 1.1 The …
Why is the Maine Coon cat so much more popular than the Siberian cat? They are cat breeds of similar appearance. The Siberian, judging by the photographs on this page, which I hope represents fairly typical examples of these cat breeds, is more rounded in appearance with a stockier body, smaller ears and a …
