Cat

Cat, Felis silvestris catus, is similar carnivores. The word "cat" usually refers to the "cat" that had been tamed, but can also refer to the "big cats" like lions, tigers, and leopards.

Cats have mingled with human life at least since 6,000 years BC, cat skeleton on the island of Cyprus. The ancient Egyptians of 3500 BC has been using a cat to keep the mice or other rodents from barns that store the harvest.



At present, the cat is one of the most popular pet in the world. Cats that his line of officially recorded as cat breeds or strains of pure (pure breed), such as Persian, Siamese, Manx, sphinx. Cats like this are usually bred in captivity official animal. The number of purebred cat is only 1% of all cats in the world, the rest is a cat with a half-breed like stray cats or domestic cats.


The number of cats  around the world very much. Each  has a special feature, but because of the frequent occurrence of interbreeding between races, many cats are simply grouped into types of long hair and short hair, depending on the type of hair covering his body.

There are many kinds of cat breeds, some of which are:

Manx
Some people call it Rumpy. Its tail is short, brown fur color and lavender. Nature loyal, friendly and smart.

Maine Coon
Originally from Maine, USA, and the American Shorthair Angora ancestry. Nature funny, shy but willing, and easy to get along. Its fur is thin, soft, and color variety.

British Shorthair
Developed in the UK. This cat is calm, gentle, warm, and smart. There is a plain fur color (white, black, blue, red and beige), dichromatic, black, striped.

Burmese (Burma)
These cats were bred by Dr.. Thompson (U.S.) from the queen cat wong want (Burma) and Siamese. Brown weasels, other colors blue, champagne, Lifa, red, brown, and blue turtles. its jolly and funny.

Burmese cat race.
Chinchilla longhair
This is the most elegant Persian cat. His ancestors from England. The race is divided into two kinds, namely chinchilla bright colors (true) and a rather dark (silver gradation)

Cats have many kinds of colors and patterns . Physical characteristics are not dependent on race . Domestic cats are grouped into the following types based on physical appearance :

short hair
long hair
oriental ( not race specific , all cats are slender , almond-shaped eyes , large ears , and short fine body hair )
Genes that regulate the color and patterns on the fur cat determines the physical appearance of a cat that differentiate them into :

Telon or calico
basic white with black spots or orange ( or blue or beige ) . The Japanese often refer to this pattern as mi - to . Because genes controlling coat color located on sex chromosomes ( sex linked ) , cat colorful Telon is generally female .

Tortoiseshell
black with orange and white colors scattered throughout its body . Cat that has a black color , bright orange , and dark orange is called Calimanco or Clouded Tiger .

Tabby
striped with various patterns . Classical pattern on the cat -shaped dots or circles . Mackerel tabby type has three lines that appear on the side of his body , making these cats like fish mackerel .

Maltese
the old name of the blue cat ( gray) .

Bicolor ( two colors )
also called a Tuxedo cat or a Jellicle cat because it has black fur with a little white on the legs , abdomen , chest , and possibly also in the face

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