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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.
The American Wirehair is a spontaneous mutation of the American Shorthair. [2] It first occurred as a random mutation among a litter of five born to a pair of barn cats in 1966 in Vernon, in upstate New York.
The toyger is a breed of domestic cat, the result of breeding domestic shorthaired tabbies (beginning in the 1980s) to make them resemble a "toy tiger", as its striped coat is reminiscent of the tiger's. [1]
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.
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.
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.
In 2022, CFA recognized 42 breeds for its Championship Class and three in its non-competitive classes (the Khao Manee, Lykoi, and Toybob). The current president of the CFA is Richard Mastin. List of CFA-recognized pedigreed cats