Pet Cat Breeds

About 4,000 years ago there was only one type of pet cat - the North African Wild Cat, tamed by the Egyptians. Over the next 4,000 years, cat owners have worked hard at breeding their cats to promote certain traits. The results are that in modern times we have 41 recognized individual breeds of cats - all developed from those initial one-type pets. Pretty neat!

Long Haired Cats
American curl
Balinese
Birman
Cymric
Himalayan
Javanese
Kashmir
Maine coon cat
Norwegian forest cat
Oriental longhair
Persian
Ragdoll
Somali
Turkish Angora
Turkish Van

Short Haired Cats
Abyssinian
American curl shorthair
American shorthair
American wirehair
Bombay
British shorthair
Burmese
Chartreux
Colorpoint shorthair
Cornish rex
Devon rex
Egyptian mau
Exotic shorthair
Havana brown
Japanese bobtail
Korat
Manx
Ocicat
Oriental shorthair
Russian blue
Scottish fold
Siamese
Singapura
Snowshoe
Sphynx
Tonkinese

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