What kind of cat do I have?
What kind of cat do I have?
Summary:
The common discussion about cat lovers always consists - the kind or breed of a cat.
Additionally, the under discussed topics by cat lover interestingly hold the caring of cat, its food and health and of course the training.
Content:
Whenever someone sees my pet cat or have discussion about it in a gathering, the first question always asked is.... WHAT KIND OF CAT DO I HAVE?
Well, I own my cat and I have all the knowledge about my pet cat so I can answer them as easy as telling a story But , I sometimes wish that if someone sees my cat and identify it by himself and says ,"Oh my God! You have the Persian Cat".
So the question is how will someone Identify ??
Here are some tips that could help someone to identify his/her or someone else's cat.
Identification by Appearance:
Cats vary by the following by appearance:
Coat lengths
Colors
Patterns
Face structure
Body (chubby and thin)
Judging features like face structure or body shape is work of professionals, but coat length, color and pattern, are usually easy to judge.
First, you need to determine whether your cat has long or short hair. Accordingly, he or she is either a Domestic Longhair or a Domestic Shorthair, also known as DLH and DSH respectively.
Secondly, you could match the patterns and colors of cat with some popular breeds and could guess your cats breed nearly and mostly and then confirm it by other means i.e. experts, forums, internet etc.
Domestic cats can be differentiated into longhairs and shorthairs, but some breeds are considered in both coat lengths. Often there can be seen and mention of medium length coat.
In case of health, both the pedigreed cats and random bred are healthy and properly cared provided. They got good care and received the proper care and attention. They born and raised up in a healthy, cared, clean and diseased free environment and surroundings. But, sometimes genetic ups and downs are caused by inbreeding or improper breeding experiments and these problems are often found and detected in pedigreed cats.
This is how you will be able to answer to yourself and then others, WHAT KIND OF CAT DO I HAVE?
Identification by Breed:
Then afterwards people think their cats kind by its breeding that, whether my cat is:
Purebred
pedigreed
The Purebred is like-to-like breeding (breeding within same kind of cat).
The pedigreed is the cat produced with selective breeding and its ancestry is recorded. The pedigreed cats have their papers always to identify.
• BE Aware of the quality differences between natural selection and genetic breeding by the engineers to create new kinds. Some of the kinds have been found for a long period, often special quality cats to a specific part of the world, such as the kind named Manx or the Korat. Most of the other cat breeds are the experimental results of engineers carefully and intelligently choosing characteristics in their experimental breeding cats to the shape of head, body, coat lengths and tail types, patterns, colors, coat lengths of the future born cats.