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The Turkish Van is an ancient breed from one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited regions, the Van Lake area of eastern Turkey, and it carries one of the most immediately distinctive descriptions in all of domestic cat breeding: the Swimming Cat. Unlike virtually all other domestic cat bre
The Turkish Angora is one of the oldest naturally occurring cat breeds in documented history, originating in the Ankara region of Turkey, known in earlier centuries as Angora, from which both the cat breed and the angora fiber (from Angora rabbits and goats from the same region) take their names. L
The Tonkinese is a deliberately created hybrid breed developed in Canada in the 1960s by crossing Siamese and Burmese cats with the intention of producing a cat that balanced the best qualities of both parent breeds. The result is a medium-sized, muscular cat with an aqua-eyed mink coat pattern that
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 Selkirk Rex is the largest and most robust of the four rex breeds, Devon, Cornish, LaPerm, and Selkirk, and the only one to carry a dominant curl gene rather than a recessive one. This genetic distinction has practical consequences: a single copy of the Selkirk curl gene produces a curly coat,
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 Himalayan is a deliberate hybrid of the Persian and the Siamese, a cat with the Persian's long, flowing coat and cobby body structure combined with the Siamese's colorpoint coloring and vivid blue eyes. It was the product of a systematic breeding experiment begun in the 1930s by Virginia Cobb a
The Exotic Shorthair is often described as the "lazy man's Persian" a description that is simultaneously reductive and entirely accurate. It was created by crossing Persian cats with American Shorthairs and other shorthaired breeds specifically to produce a cat with the Persian's distinctive round
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 Birman, known as the Sacred Cat of Burma, is one of the most visually striking pedigree cat breeds in existence, a colorpoint semi-longhaired cat with the distinctive feature that separates it from every other colorpoint breed: pure white paws, called gloves, on all four feet. The white gloves
The Balinese is the long-haired Siamese, a breed that carries the same genetics, body type, and personality as the Siamese, with the single addition of a recessive gene that produces a semi-long, silky coat. The two breeds are genetically identical except at the coat-length locus, and understanding
The American Shorthair is one of the few pedigree cat breeds native to the United States, developed through selective breeding from domestic shorthaired cats brought to North America by European settlers. It is not simply a random-bred domestic shorthair with a registry number; it is a distinct bre
