Domestic Cat Breeds

A tomcat can stay away from home for as long as three days. Most tomcats will return home each morning.

A Cornish Rex is a specific breed of domestic cat. Unlike most cats, which have a three layered fur coat, Cornish Rex only have the undercoat. Domestic cats generally live 12 to 14 years in captivity.

How many breeds of cats are there

The International Cat Association recognizes 55 breeds for competition, 12 more for exhibition, and quite a few others for registration only. A breed merely accepted for registration might or might not ever become a recognized breed.

Other registering associations have slightly different lists.

Some good names for a male Singapura are Max, Theo, and Bubs.

the Black and white cat on postman pat is called jess

No, cats do not have thumbs like a human. However, they do have a "dew claw" which is a fifth digit found on the inside of a cat's front leg, very close to the wrist joint. Cats use these to grip prey, toys, and objects they want to climb.

ADDITIONAL ANSWERS:

According to at least one or more sources, the answer would depend on whether the cat (or its species) has 6 digits, see:

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Cymric: They are longhaired.

Manx: They are shorthaired.

Japanese Bobtail: They are shorthaired.

American Bobtail: They are shorthaired

That's all. So 4 breeds

Regular cat food.

Yes they can live together. They could possibly have a little tiff at the start and then after that you find them sleeping in a warm hut together. Whereas males will definitely fight. I found that they are not too bad if it is dad and he has been with the baby male to start with, but never put a new male mouse with another.

Either a Turkish angora if raised properly,or a savvanah. A lot of people may think savvanahs are wild and ferocious,but they are extremely sweet , tame,and smart.I have one and she is amazing. P.s:make sure savvanahs are legal where you live.

Yes, cats tend to leave home to go die alone, when they know that they are too old or too sick to live on. They know when the time is, it's animal instinct.

Often it's not very far away from their home, though.

Unless they get killed by accident (roadkill, etc.), then it is - of course - not something they decide for themselves.

Domestic cats are the decedents of their wild ancestors so their native habitat is where the ancestor lived.

Humans are encroaching upon the marbled catâ??s habitat. The cat is endangered because of this and also because of deforestation in their area.

Carefully feel or look at her belly. Can you see or feel her teats? If you can, and her belly isn't swollen, then it's very probable she has recently had kittens. If her belly is swollen, then she's pregnant, and will be having her kits within a couple weeks. Try to follow her if she disappears for long periods; you may want to find the kittens.

it depends on the hair length- the more often the better -for long haired everyday is best, others every few days

if the cat is shedding alot of hair visibly in the home or coughing up furballs he needs to be groomed

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To put it simply, calico cats are caused by the random conversion during embyronic development of X chromosomes into Barr bodies. When you have a female cat, you have two X chromosomes (XX). When the female cat embryo is a morula (earliest recognizable embryo), each cell in the embryo randomly inactivates one X chromosome and passes this inactivation onto daughter cells in the same line. This is what allows for the spotted appearance of calico cats, as we are assuming momma kitty and papa kitty had different coat colors transferred to the embryo through the X chromosome. This random inactivation is also why females are typically not color blind. Color blindness is caused by an inability to perceive certain colors due to a deficient protein that has its DNA inside the X chromosome. Females have two X chromosomes, and one of them is randomly selected to be used in the development of each focal area of the eye. If the female had a color blind father, this means each eye would be roughly half color blind, and since half is enough to perceive color well, unaffected. A female could indeed be color blind if she received "bad genes" from her mother as well, but it's a much rarer circumstance.

You do not see the calico patterns with a normal male (XY) cat because the X chromosome does not become inactivated in male animals. However, cats are susceptible to the same genetic disease we are. In one particular disease, two cells fail to separate their X chromosomes during Meiosis (an event called Nondisjunction). This cat hence receives two X chromosomes from mom, and say in the case of a male, a Y from dad. This cat's resultant genotype is XXY and the cat has Klinfelter's Syndrome. The cat appears male (i.e. has a male phenotype) but he really has two X chromosomes. This tends to be why male calico cats are much rarer and are also sterile

To make things simple its very rare to have a male calico cat. And yes male calico cats are sterile. A regular female cat has XX chromosomes and a regular male cat as XY chromosomes. A male calico cat would have XXY chromosomes which in human form this would be called Klinefelter's syndrome. Which makes the male calico cat sterile.

The colour of the cat's coat does not depict its overall shape and weight.

The average weight of a cat is usually about 8 - 16 pounds. Cats average about 23 - 25cm in height and 46cm in body length, not including the tail.

variation in temperature, with cold temperature producing dark fur. Siamese cats have a temperature sensitive mutation in tyrosinase, the enzyme necessary to produce melanin. The enzyme is not active at body temperature, but is active at cooler temperatures, in the extremities. Siamese cats in cooler climates are darker than in warm countries.

It is difficult to say. Early Siamese cats that were imported from Thailand had a kink in their tails, and for many decades this trait, along with Siamese cats being cross-eyed, were seen as proof that a cat was indeed of pure Siamese breeding - especially in cat shows.

Today, this trait is now considered a flaw within the Siamese breed and has largely been bred out, although it still persists among street cats in Thailand. Siamese cats bought from reputable breeders should not have kinks in their tails due to careful breeding programs.

In some cat breeds, the coat color changes in winter, and than returns to its original form in the spring. Also, as kittens grow into cats, their coats change color until they are one year of age.

Calico cats are meat-eaters. Therefore, their order classification is Carnivora. Their full classification is Kingdom: Animalia, Phylum: Chordata, Class: Mammalia, Order: Carnivora, Family: Feliae, Genus: Felis, Species: Felis Catus.

No cat, indoor or out door, should throw up everyday. Hairballs are normal but not vomiting everyday. Something is wrong with kitty if this is happening, or your cat is getting the wrong food. They can get severe dehydration, malnourished, fevers,

... A long list of things. If kitty is throwing up everyday, get him/her to the vet!