Friday, February 4, 2011

Various Cat Breeds

By Jane Claire


The association between cats and man goes back for many thousands of years, though in modern times, cats are the number two most favored type of pet in the world today. The beauty of keeping a cat for a pet is that you can leave it in the home and go out for work, study or do other tasks and the cat will not require much supervision in your absence. All they need is to be fed and paid attention to and unlike dogs, don't require being walked about or anything like that.

Not Pedigreed Cats

Studies have shown that most pet cats are actually not purebred. Majority of them are mixed with various breeds wherein as little as three percent are those that are pedigreed. However, owning a non-purebred cat as a pet does not really make any difference when compared to the pedigreed pet cats.

When placing cat breeds on various genres, they are usually based according to their physical aspects. Such features that are considered are the shapes of their body, the size, the color of their eyes and the length of their coats. Some even categorize them according to their traits and personalities. But when it comes down to the most common categories, they are the long-haired breeds and the short-haired cats which is the most widespread.

Most cat owners may not prefer to own long hair cats because they are more difficult to care for since they need to be groomed on a daily basis and they also are more at risk of having hairballs from which fleas may be very difficult to get rid of, and in case such cats get them cut or are grazed, it will be quite difficult to properly care for them.

Ever since cats have existed in this world, their various breeds have continuously progressed that as many as seventy distinctive cat breeds are remarked in many nations. Not only have they skyrocketed their breeds, their functions have also proliferated to many types from hunting to eradicating those irksome vermin particularly mice and rats. Not only are they used for killing the pests, they could also provide friendship which is another factor that a man needs.

Among the numerous distinguished cat breeds, you may be acquainted to as many as forty among them with some having their own distinctions. With regards to those primitive cat breeds, it has been said that these types of breeds are just congruent to other ancient stories.




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