The Van pattern is named after Lake Van in eastern Turkey. It is close to Mount Ararat, the site of Noah’s Ark. Local legend says that when the Ark came to rest on the mountain after the flood receded and … please continue reading
Domestic dogs vary in size much more that cats because they have been selectively breed for a much longer time. With a head start of thousands of years the relentless selective breeding of dogs has forced their sizes to new … please continue reading
Comparing purebred and hybrid could apply to many species but I’ll use cats as an example. Purebred cats have a pedigree which means that the cat’s father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, great grandfather and great grandmother and so on … please continue reading
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 … please continue reading
There are two purebred domestic cats that look like a bobcat: American bobtail and Pixie-bob. In addition to these two purebred cats which are designed through selective breeding to have a domesticated but slightly similar appearance to the American bobcat, … please continue reading
We are talking about the Ragdoll cat. People want to know where it comes from. The majority of cat breeds have been ‘Made in America’ and the story is no different for this popular cat breed. The Ragdoll comes from … please continue reading
Burmese cats should have eyes which are brilliant and from yellow to gold in color. please continue reading
It’s arrived at last; a crackdown on breeders who knowingly create kittens (and puppies) with cute appearances because they carry a genetic mutation but which also causes health problems in the cat or dog. There was a trend in the … please continue reading
Moggy cats are random breed, cross-bred non-pedigree cats and the opposite to moggy is the purebred, selectively breed, sometimes inbred pedigree cat. please continue reading
For me “responsible breeder” is an oxymoron. To PETA it is also an oxymoron. To many other people it is not. An oxymoron, as you might know, is when two words are used together which are contradictory. The point that … please continue reading
