The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Cat Breeds: The Comprehensive Visual Directory of all the World's Cat Breeds, Plus Invaluable Practical Information on Breeding, Training, Care, and Showing

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Book Sales, Jan 8, 2011 - Pets - 256 pages

Lavishly illustrated, the 256 page directory is presented according to basic groups: shorthairs, longhairs, semi-longhairs, orientals, and foreign breeds--all featuring full color identification photography plus photographs of varieties to show variations within the breed. Breed standards are given as well as care boxes for at a glance tips for each breed.

An introductory section covers the history of cats, ranging back over the millennia to the wild cats which roamed the earth with early humans to the domesticated cats of today. There follow sections on the anatomy, physiology, and psychology of the cat, and specialist terminology is illustrated with examples taken from the breeds featured in the Encyclopedia. Photographs, maps, and drawings show how particular conformations and characteristics have evolved into groupings which are recognized today.

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SEMI LONGHAIRED BREEDS Korat
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Tortoiseshell and Particolor varieties Bengal
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100 SHOW POINTS 20 POINTS Abyssinian American Shorthair and/or pink base coat base color BICOLOR BLUE TABBY blue torbie BLUE-CREAM blue-gray body color BREAKDOWN OF 100 breed breeders brick red brilliant copper British Shorthair Burmese Burmilla Cat Fanciers cat's chest Chinchilla CHOCOLATE TORTIE coat color color is brilliant Colorpoint Cornish Rex dark deep dense Devon Rex domestic cat eye color fawn feline GCCF grooming ground color Havana Brown KEY CHARACTERISTICS kittens lavender pink leather and paw leather is brick legs lilac lips and chin Longhair mated medium length milk chocolate mottled nose leather orange Oriental Oriental cats OVERALL BUILD Medium pads are black pads are pink patched or mingled paw pads Persian pinkish POINT The body POINTS BODY points color points Eye RED TABBY rounded seal brown shaded or tipped shape Siamese Silver Tabby slightly SMOKE spots tabby markings TABBY POINT tail ticked TORTIE POINT tortoiseshell undercoat variety white undercoat

About the author (2011)

Angela Rixon, ARPS, is President of the Cat Association of Great Britain. An ex show judge, she is also a cat breeder, and was responsible for the introduction of the Foreign Lilac and the Oriental Spotted breeds into Britain. She has written over 30 books on cats and cat care.

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TitleThe Illustrated Encyclopedia of Cat Breeds: The Comprehensive Visual Directory of all the World's Cat Breeds, Plus Invaluable Practical Information on Breeding, Training, Care, and Showing
AuthorAngela Rixon
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherBook Sales, 2011
ISBN0785803645, 9780785803645
Length256 pages
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