Showing posts with label The British Shorthair Cat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The British Shorthair Cat. Show all posts

Monday, December 13, 2010

Sphinx Cats





Contemporary breed Sphynx (also known as the Canadian Sphynx, Sphynx ancestry is different from Russia - Peterbald, Don Sphynx) started in 1966, at Roncesvalles, Toronto when a cat named Snip hairy birth. Mated with the mother kitten (backcross), which produces one more naked kitten. Together with some naked kitten was found later to be primogenitor breed. The first Sphynx breeder faced a number of issues: very limited genetic pool, breeders have rather vague ideas about genetics Sphynx, and kittens many died. Epidermis naked men born in 1975 to provide short-haired mother of a new material for the Sphynx breeder and new genes for further development of the breed. In the early stages of breed crosses with Devon-rex is used, but then this crossing was favored because it causes health problems. Now the Canadian Sphynx is a breed with a genetic pool of sound. Outcrossing is still allowed to use the guidelines listed in the "standard" of each Association Feline throughout duni





Sunday, December 12, 2010

The British Shorthair Cat



 
The British Shorthair is a cat pet feature that makes it a popular breed in cat shows. It has been the most popular type of cat registered by the British Government Council of Cat Fancy (GCCF) since 2001, when overtaking the Persian breed.
The British Shorthair is the descendant of cats brought to Britain by the Romans and then interbred with wild native cats. They then crossed with Persian cats to increase their thickness. multiply defined in the 19th century and British Shorthairs displayed in Crystal Palace cat show in 1871. The popularity of this race declined by the 1940s, but since the end of World War II, has increased the breeding program and breed high popularity once again