Made unique by its small or lacking tail, Manx is a cat breed that belongs to the Isle of Man, next to Britain, where it has resided for many centuries. A number of legends afloat as regards the origin of this cat, with many stories being part of the loca...

Munchkin is a domestic cat that is made unique by its short legs. The short limbs are owing to a genetic mutation and thus there is debate as regards the origin of this cat, since the mutation could have occurred at any point in time in the past. Notable ...

One of the most recent feline breeds, Ojos Azules is a very pretty cat. Little is understood about the origin of this cat except for the fact that it was first reported in New Mexico in the mid nineteen eighties. The cat is known for its dazzling bright b...

A relatively new feline breed, Peterbald has emerged from Russia. It traces its origin to St. Petersburg in the mid nineteen nineties when a Don Sphynx male was crossed with an Oriental Shorthair female. The resulting litters contained kittens of an indiv...

A recent breed of cats, Pixie-Bob is rumored to have a wild heritage with breeders claiming that they originated from mating of Bobcats with domestic felines. There is some controversy over this even as many locals in certain parts of North America claim ...

Selkirk Rex is a feline breed that is quite unique in its appearance. It is not slight in its physique like other Rex cats nor is its fur sparse and short. Instead Selkirk Rex is a well built animal with a very soft and long fur. The coat rather resembles...

Scottish Fold is a cat breed that is made remarkable by its unique ears. As the name suggests the ears of the cat are folded forward and downward. In earlier cats there was only one fold, however, newer members of the breed often have two to three creases...

A shorthair feline, the Russian resembles the classic Russian Blue in every aspect apart for coat color. Russian is the term used to include cats of white, black and tabby color. Genetic and anecdotal evidence dictates that Russians used to exist alongsid...

Sphynx is one of the most extraordinary felines. It is remarkable for its appearance which comprises of a supple and hairless body. The singular appearance is owing to a mutated gene that renders the Sphynx into its individual morphological form. It is qu...

A beautiful feline breed, Russian Blue is said to have originated from Archangel islands in Russia a long time ago. There it was highly valued for its lustrous fur and unique personality before it was brought over by sailors to Britain in the later half o...

Havana Brown is a pretty feline breed that was brought over to Europe from the East in nineteenth century and gained much popularity for its self-brown color and bright emerald eyes. However, in the early twentieth century formal breeding of all but blue-...

Oriental Shorthair is a feline breed that has occurred in Thailand, alongside the Siamese, for a long time as a self-colored cat and was brought over with other cats from the Orient to Britain in nineteenth century. Even as it was initially just considere...

A shorthair house cat, Exotic Shorthair was developed in United States during the middle of twentieth century by mating longhair Persian cats with certain shorthair breeds. The idea was to create a cat that had all the adorable external features of the Pe...

Ocicat is a spotted feline named after its resemblance to the wild cat Ocelot. The creation of the breed was quite accidental and relatively recent, occurring in the mid nineteen sixties, during the crossing of an Abyssinian male with a Siamese female. Th...

European Shorthair is a recently recognized breed of cats that was created to distinguish the Scandinavian cats of Europe from those of United Kingdom. A shorthair feline breed, it is distinct from the British and American Shorthairs. The cat's origin dat...