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The Khao Manee is an ancient cat breed comparable to the Siamese, Thai, Korat, Suphalak, and other natural cat breeds from Thailand.The Khao Manee is mentioned in the Tamra Maew (Cat Book Poems) that also mention the Siamese cat breed and other different coat coloured cats endemic to Thailand, or Siam, as it was previously known.
The Turkish Angora was recognised as a distinct breed in Europe by the 17th century. [3] However, there is a strong connection between Angoras and Persians . Charles Catton , in the 1788 book Animals Drawn from Nature and Engraved in Aqua-tinta , gave “Persian cat” and “Angora cat” as alternative names for the same breed.
Called simply the Turkish cat at this point, [7] the name was changed in 1979 in the UK (1985 in the US) to Turkish Van [2] [8] to better distance the breed from the Turkish Angora cat (originally called simply Angora, [1]: 35 an old spelling of Ankara). The Turkish Van began to be imported into America in the 1970s.
Odd-eyed white Turkish Angora cat with a blue and an amber eye from Ankara Zoo. The Atatürk Forest Farm and Zoo in Ankara has a breeding program to preserve pure solid white Turkish Angora cats. [10] [11] The zoo specifically prized the odd-eyed Angoras, as the Turkish folklore suggests that "the eyes must be as green as the lake and as blue ...
These species include the cat, particularly breeds such as Turkish Van, Khao Manee and (rarely) Japanese Bobtail. These so-called odd-eyed cats are white, or mostly white, with one normal eye (copper, orange, yellow, green), and one blue eye.
Oriental Longhairs have the same wedge-shaped heads as modern Siamese cats. Oriental Longhairs feature a long, tubular, Oriental-style body with a longer silky coat.The range of possible coat colours includes everything from self-coloured (black, blue, chocolate, lilac, cinnamon, caramel, fawn, red, cream and apricot), tortoiseshell, smoke (silver undercoat), shaded or tipped, tabby or white.
The Exotic Shorthair is a medium to large sized breed just like the Persian. The head of the Exotic Shorthair is round and large. The ears are small with a well rounded tip that face low on the head.
The Ocicat is an all-domestic breed of cat which resembles a wild cat but has no recent wild DNA in its gene pool.It is named for its resemblance to the ocelot.The breed was established from the Siamese and Abyssinian and later on American Shorthair would be added.