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The Somali is the long-haired Abyssinian, a breed that arose within Abyssinian breeding programs when the recessive gene for long coat, present in the Abyssinian gene pool but typically unexpressed, occasionally produced long-haired kittens in otherwise short-haired litters. For years, these kitten
The Oriental Shorthair is, in genetic terms, a Siamese in any color, the same breed, the same body, the same voice, the same personality, simply freed from the colorpoint restriction that limits the Siamese to dark points on a pale body. Where the Siamese standard permits only four point colors, t
The Egyptian Mau is the only naturally spotted domestic cat breed in the world, and the distinction is meaningful. The Bengal's spotted appearance is a coat-level pattern; the spots are in the fur. The Egyptian Mau's spots are in the skin itself, visible on the hairless areas of the belly and ident
The Devon Rex is one of the most visually distinctive domestic cat breeds in existence, a small cat with enormous ears, huge luminous eyes, a triangular pixie face, and a coat of soft, wavy curls that feels like warm suede against the skin. It was developed in Devon, England, in 1960 from a curly-h
The Cornish Rex is the original rex cat, the breed that established the principle of selectively breeding from a spontaneous curly-coat mutation to create a new pedigree type. It originated in Cornwall, England, in 1950 when a curly-coated kitten named Kallibunker was born in a litter of otherwise
The Bengal is one of the most visually dramatic domestic cat breeds in the world, carrying a coat that closely mimics the spotted and marbled patterns of wild jungle cats. It is also one of the most misunderstood, widely believed to be a wild or semi-wild animal when, in reality, a modern Bengal se
