1. The Different
Kinds of Cats
By: Joaquin Aleck A.
Avila

2. Pixie-bob
The Pixie-bob is a breed
of domestic cat claimed by
breed founder Carol Ann
Brewer of Washington State to
be the progency of naturally
occurring bobcat hybrids.
DNA testing have failed to
detect bobcat marker
genes and Pixie-bobs are
considered wholly domestic for
the purposes of ownership, cat
fancy registration.

3. Abyssinian
The Abyssinian is
a breed of
domesticated cat
with a distinctive
ticked coat. The
Abyssinian has
become one of the
most popular breeds
of shorthair cat in
the USA.

4. Aegean Cat
The Aegean Cat
originates from
the Cycladic
Islands in the
Aegean Sea,
where they occur
naturally.

5. American
Shorthair
The breed is believed
to be descended from
English cats (the
forebears of today's
British Shorthairs)
brought to North
America by early
European settlers to
protect valuable
cargo from mice and
rats.

6. American
Longhair
The American
Longhair / Maine
Coon is a large-sized
cat. Its coat is can
come in a different
variety of colours.
Like the breed name
suggests, they have
long hairs.

7. American Keuda
The American Keuda has
some pronounced
similarities with the Egyptian
Mau breed, including body
type, habits, and a belly
flap, not seen in other
breeds. Since the belly flap
allows extra extension when
running, and thus more
speed, this would be a
successful adaptation for
any cat that needed speed

8. Applehead
Siamese
Appleheads came
about after years of
selective breeding
during which
Siamese breeders
strove to produce a
longer, thinner, more
extreme-wedge look
in their show cats.

9. African Serval
It is a strong yet
slender animal,
with long legs
and a fairly short
tail. Due to its leg
length, it is
relatively one of
the tallest cats.

10. Ashera Cat
The Ashera cat was a
type of hybrid cat
marketed by the
controversial
company Lifestyle
Pets. The hybrid cat
breed was allegedly a
cross between the
African serval, the
Asian leopard cat,
and a domestic
housecat.

11. POLYDACTYL
CAT
A polydactyl cat is a cat with
a congenital physical
called polydactyly (or
polydactylism, also known as
hyperdactyly), a type of cat body
type that causes the cat to be
born with more than the usual
number of toes on one or more
of its paws.

12. AMERICAN
CURL
The breed originated in
Lakewood, California as
the result of a
spontaneous mutation. In
June, 1981, two stray
kittens were found and
taken in by the Ruga
family.

13. AMERICAN
BOBTAIL
According to legend, bobtails
are the result of a
crossbreeding between a
domestic tabby cat and a
bobcat. Yodie, a short-tailed
brown tabby male, mated with
a seal point Siamese colored
(cat) female to create the
Bobtail's original bloodline.

14. AMERICAN
WIREHAIR
The first wirehair cat
appeared as a random
cat mutation among a
litter of six born to two
barn cats. This single
red and white male had
odd wiry fur.

15. BIRMAN
The Birman is said to
have originated in
western Burma, and
cats with similar
markings are recorded
in documents from
ancient Thailand.

16. BICOLOR
A bicolor cat has
white fur combined
with fur of some
other colour, for
example black or
tabby.

17. BENGAL
The first Bengal Cat was
registered with the
International Cat
Association (TICA) in
1983. The Bengal has
been welcomed as a
pedigreed breed by several
cat associations

18. BALINESE
The Balinese was originally
registered as a 'longhaired
Siamese', and examples were
known from the early 1920s.
The occasional long-haired
kittens in a Siamese litter
were seen as an oddity, and
sold as household pets rather
than as show cats.

19. AUSTRALIAN MIST
This breed was developed by
Truda Straede
in Australia commencing in 1976,
hence its name. The breed was
developed by crossing
the Burmese, Abyssinian, and
miscellaneous domestic short
hair cat to create a short-haired
cat with a spotted coat.

20. ASIAN SEMILONGHAIR
Like the Asian Shorthair, the
breed was developed in
Britain, and is not currently
recognised by any U.S.
Registries. It has full
recognition in the GCCF and
although it is a relatively rare
breed some fine examples
have become champions.

31. Chausie
is a domestic
breed of cat that
was developed by
breeding a few
individuals from a
nodomestic
species to a far
greater
number of
domestic cats.

32. Chartreux
There is a legend
that the
Chartreux are
descended from
cats brought to
France by
Carthusian
monks to live in
the order's head
monastery, the
Grande
Chartreuse,

33. Chantilly
Originally found
only in the color
of chocolate,
Tiffany/Chantilly
now occurs in a
range of colors
including
Chocolate, blue,
cinnamon, lilac,
and fawn.

34. Caracal
also known as
the desert lynx,
is a wild cat that
is widely
distributed
across Africa,
central asia and
southwest
asia into India.

35. California spangled
cat
Inspired by the
poaching death
of a leopard, the
anthropologist
Louis Leakey
motivated
Californian
scriptwriter Paul
Casey to breed a
domestic cat.

36. Calico
Calico cats are
domestic cats with
a spotted or particolored coat that is
predominantly
white, with patches
of two other colors
(often the two
other colors are
orange tabby and
black).

37. Egyptian Mau
The Egyptian Mau
is often said to
be descended
from African wild
cats, and a
descendant of
the cats seen in
wall paintings of
Ancient Egypt.

38. Don Sphynx
is a breed of
cat known for its lack
of a coat.
The contemporary
breed of Sphynx is
known also as
the Canadian
Sphynx, which is
distinct from the
Russian Sphynx
breeds like
Peterbald and Don
Sphynx.

39. Domestic
shorthaired cat
Domestic
shorthaired cats
are characterised
by a wide range
of colouring and
typically 'revert
to type' after a
few generations,
which means
they express
their coats as a
tabby.

40. Domestic
mediumhair
are of mixed
ancestry, their
temperaments
can be hard to
predict. Some
cats are quiet
and docile while
others are more
active and vocal.

41. Domestic
longhair
Domestic
longhairs come
in all the
standard cat
colours including
tabby, tortie, bicolored etc. If
their fur
combines several
shades of the
same color they
may be referred
to as a smoke.

42. Dilute calico
A dilute calico
kitty could be
described as a
white cat that
decided to play
around in
watercolor
paints instead
of in bright oil
paints.

43. Devon Rex
The Devon
Rex is a
relatively new
breed of cat
with a sparse,
curly, very
soft coat
similar to
that of the
Cornish Rex.

44. Cymric
The name
comes from
Cymru
(pronounced
KUM-ree), the
indigenous
Welsh name of
Wales, though
the breed is not
associated with
Wales in any
fashion,

45. Javanese
The Javanese is a
recognized breed
of cat. Javanese
have a long, silky
coat, that comes
in a variety of
colors. These cats
are ranked
among the most
intelligent breeds
of cat, and
resemble the
Balinese.

46. Japanese Bobtail
The earliest
written
evidence of cats
in Japan
indicates that
they arrived
from China or
Korea at least
1,000 years
ago.

47. Himalayan
is a breed or subbreed of longhaired cat identical
in type to the
Persian, with the
exception of its
blue eyes and its
point colouration,
which were derived
from crossing the
Persian with the
Siamese.

48. Havana Brown
The Havana
Brown, also
known as the
Swiss Mountain
cat, is a breed of
cat well known
and shown in
England in the
1890s.

49. German Rex
is a breed of
domestic cat.
They are a
medium sized
breed with
slender legs of a
medium length.
The head is
round with
well-developed
cheeks and
large, open
ears.

50. Farm Cat
also known
as barn cats,
are cats kept
primarily for
the purpose
of catching
the smaller
vermin found
on farms and
ranches