Domestic Cat Breeds

Кот for male

Pronounced "cot"

Кошка for female

Pronounced "coshka"

The best way to tell what gender a cat is, is by looking underneath the base of its tail. A male cat that has not been neutered will have two furry testicles right below the anus, and a penis right below the testicles. A neutered male cat will not have visible testicles, but there will be a noticeable space between its anus and penis.

Spayed and intact female cats alike will have a genital opening (vulva) which is often seen as a tear-drop shape located right below the anus.

Please note that checking for nipples is not an accurate way of telling a cat's gender - male cats can have nipples too! They just have no function, much the same as human males have nipples but have no use for them.

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Cats are strict carnivores, so get all their nutrients from meat. No matter what the breed, the very best cat foods are the ones with a very high named meat content (labeled as Chicken, Turkey, Rabbit, Lamb, Tuna, etc.) as the first, or first three, ingredients.

It is advisable to stay away from brands that include Corn, Wheat, Cereals, Soy and various Sugars in their foods - cats have difficulty in digesting these and do not provide any nutritional value to the cat whatsoever. Wet food with these specifications are much easier to find than in dry food.

The amount of moisture in cat food is also very important.Cats are notoriously bad drinkers, even when they are thirsty. This is because they have evolved to get all their needed moisture from their prey (their ancestors were cats that lived in very dry and arid environments where water was hard to come by), so therefore have a low "thirst drive" and will not often seek out water on their own. This is a trait that has been passed down over the thousands of years.

Canned or pouched food has anywhere between 60 to 80% water. Seeing as in the wild a cat's prey is around 65%-75% water, wet food provides a cat with more than enough water each day.

Many dry foods and low-quality wet foods are often packed with carbohydrates - "filler" in the way of grains and cereals, none of which cats can digest or gain any nutrients from. Grain is used instead of meat because it is cheaper to produce and helps kibble pieces hold together. Cats need MEAT based protein, not PLANT based protein. Cats will often overeat on lower quality foods because they are not getting all the nutrients they need, which often results in obesity. Because kibble is baked at such high temperatures, all the "natural" nutrition is destroyed. Wet food isn't processed to such high levels as this, so most of the nutrition stays intact.

You could feed both, but dry food only really serves as a convenience to us, and provides very little for your cat. There are some decent dry foods out there such as Applaws, Orijen and Felidae with a high meat content in them and zero grains, but even that will never compare to the nutrition of canned food.

For high-quality Cat food there is: Blue Buffalo, Felidae, Weruva, California Natural, Instinct, Prairie, Natural Balance, Eagle Pack, Wellness, EVO, Bozita (the canned stuff is 90+% meat, Grau (90+% mea, HiLife (60% meat), Feline Fayre, to name a few.

First and foremost, you get a mixed-breed cat. Since there are more cats available than there are homes for them, indiscriminant breeding should be discouraged. The surest way to prevent unwanted or unplanned pregnancies is to neuter male cats and spay females. This surgical procedure can also prevent some behavior problems, such as marking in males and howling in females when they are in season. Spayed and neutered cats suffer fewer health problems than their unaltered counterparts, especially cancer.

Pointed cats will often pass on their genes for points, and for blue eyes if they have them, to their offspring, even when breed to a cat of a different breed.

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You will most likely get half to all of the kittens being white, and probably none of the kittens will have points, and they can be any colour including tabby patterns. The genes for pointed cats are recessive, so if the white cat has no family history of points (which it probably doesn't if it is an alley cat) then the kittens cannot have points, but they definitely do carry underlying pointing genes.

Animals is a neutral term, so there is no opposite. English is mostly a neutral-gendered language. However, specific animals often have male and female terms, and a different term for the young.

Examples:

Consider the bovine species. The male is a bull, a female that has given birth is a cow, a female that hasn't given birth is a heifer, and the young are calves (with a single one being a calf).

Deer are divided into bucks (male) and does (female).

Chickens are divided into roosters (male) and hens (female). The young are chicks or biddies.

I've heard most outside cats live to be at least 7 years old. My cat is currently 12.

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No. Many are yellow or other colours like orange and blue. so i have researched that male cats eyes are green and female cats eyes are more of a yellow than a green also cats eyes can be a shade of brown

Im not sure i don't know if im right but i heard its egypt.I believe they used it for killing mice.And im not sure but if im right please tell me.

Historians tended to think that ancient Egypt was the site of cat domestication because of the cats in the paintings about 3,600 years old. But in 2004, a Neolithic grave was excavated in Shillourokambos, Cyprus, that contained the skeletons, laid close to one another, of both a human and a cat. The grave is estimated to be 9,500 years old. The cat specimen is large and closely resembles the African wildcat, rather than house cats. The discovery, combined with genetic studies, suggest that cats were probably domesticated in the Near East, in the Fertile Crescent, around the time of the development of agriculture. Then they were brought to Cyprus and Egypt. Hope this helps.

We had have many breeds of cats over the years but the last one was a blue Abyssinian for over thirteen years. He was the most loving and friendly cat who would follow strangers down the street. Abyssinians are devoted to their owners (followed my son into school one day). Mine would sit and be petted for hours at a time. He got on well with children and was very affectionate. I miss him very much but after two years without him I have decided to buy another Abyssinian. He will have big paws to fill.

The life cycle of a cat starts with a kitten and then goes to an adolescent kitten. It then becomes an adult cat followed by a senior cat. Once a cat is more than 12 years old it is considered to be a senior cat.

Quite a few... and I would imagine every cat has a different amount. ;)

Persian

While persians do have flat faces their eyes are not truly bigger than any other breed of cat.

The cat with the big eyes and flat face is called an Exotic. They are expected to follow the breeding standard of the Persian but have distinct differences.

A Flame Point Siamese is the term applied by nonbreeders to a cat that has Siamese ancestry but sports "points" or colors on ears, paws and tail of an orange/apricot color. In America these cats are referred to not as Siamese, but as Red "Oriental Short haired color points". In Britain and other parts of the world, the term "color point" is used to refer to Himalayan and Persians with orange points!

In the US and elsewhere, TICA recognizes red- and cream-points as Siamese, while CFA classifies them as Oriental Shorthairs. TICA does not use the term "flame point" for anything.

No, not really, but it can be an indicator of genetics or breed.

Calico cats are almost always female.

Orange cats are almost always male.

Solid white cats are frequently deaf.

There are probably others, but those are the only ones I know.

Really, the best age to give kittens away is about 12 weeks. You should never give 6 or 8 week old kittens away as they are still too young. It usually takes 12 weeks for kittens to learn all the vital social behaviours they need to develop into well behaved adult cats, as well as knowing how to groom themselves and use the litterbox.

Pedigree kittens probably need a little more time than moggies, so you should definitely give them away between 12-14 weeks.

Felidae is the biological family of the cats; a member of this family is called a felid. Felids are the strictest carnivores of the sixteen mammal families in the order Carnivora. The most familiar felid is the domestic cat, which first became associated with humans about 10,000 years ago, but the family includes all other wild cats including the big cats.

Extant felids belong to one of two subfamilies: Pantherinae (which includes the Tiger, the Lion, theJaguar, and the Leopard), and Felinae (which includes the Cougar, the Cheetah, the Serval, theLynxes and Caracal, along with the Ocelot and Domestic Cat).

A male cat is usually called a Tom. This term is usually used only for unneutered males.

This could be any breed of cat. Most breeds have different colour patterns, most of which are very common in most other cat breeds. If you got your cat from a pedigree breeder, then they would have given you papers along with the cat that would say what breed the cat is. If not, it is classed as a Domestic Shorthair or Domestic Longhair (or "moggie"), which is a term used for cats that have mixed genes or have no proof of its linage.

If you still would like to know, try and contact a cat breeder as they have significant knowledge of cat breeds.

yes this is a common mating ritual. it is done as a seducing technique. Also there are certain traces on a female cats bottom that is benificial to a male cats digestive system

When a female cat is trying to attract a male cat, she is 'in heat' and may be more friendly than usual, act strangely and meow loudly. She also lets off a scent that tells male cats to come to her.

normally domestic short hairs can come in a brownish shade