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An early example of the "English type" Blue Shorthair, from Frances Simpson's Book of the Cat, 1903. Selective breeding of the best examples of the type began in the nineteenth century, with emphasis on developing the unusual blue-grey variant called the "British Blue" or "English type" (to distinguish it from the more fine-boned "Russian type").
The Devon Rex is a very short haired breed with a medium build and a unique head type which gives the breed a 'pixie-like' appearance. The head is short with a broad wedge and the brow curving to a flat skull. The eyes are large, set wide, and oval-shaped. Devon Rexes may have any eye colour. The ears are large and set wide apart with rounded tips.
The domestic short-haired and domestic long-haired cat types are not breeds, but terms used (with various spellings) in the cat fancy to describe "mongrel" or "bicolor" cats by coat length, ones that do not belong to a particular breed.
A moggy is any cat which has not been intentionally bred. Moggies lack a standard appearance unlike pedigree cats which have a standard.In contexts where cats need to be registered—such as in veterinary practices or shelters—they are called a 'domestic short-hair' or 'domestic long-hair' depending on coat length.
Both the American Shorthair breed and the random-bred cats from which the breed is derived are sometimes called working cats because they were used for controlling rodent populations, on ships and farms. The American shorthair (then referred as Domestic shorthair) was among the first five breeds that were considered as registered cat breeds by ...
In the clip Norman's owner shared, it shows the Oriental Shorthair having a really hard time accepting that morning had finally come. The cat owner pulled back the covers that Norman was snuggled ...
After all, most cats come with hair (and the ones who don’t, like Sphynx breeds, have their own cleanliness complexities). But we haven’t dealt with a cat like Atchoum, a beautiful Persian cat ...
The British Shorthair, however, was crossed with the Persian and selectively bred to become a cobbier cat with a slightly shortened muzzle and thicker coat. [6] It was confusing for Scandinavian breeders that the British Shorthair was also called European Shorthair at that time, even though it looked different.