The Khao Manee is an ancient breed from Thailand whose name means white gem. It is described in…
The Japanese Bobtail has lived in Japan for centuries. Its short, fluffy tail looks like a pom pom,…
The Havana Brown was developed in England in the 1950s from Siamese and solid black cats. It is…
The Exotic Shorthair was developed in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s by crossing Persians with…
The European Burmese shares its roots with the American Burmese but was developed separately in Britain and Europe,…
The Egyptian Mau is one of the few naturally spotted domestic breeds. Russian princess Nathalie Troubetzkoy brought the…
The Devon Rex began in Devonshire, England, in 1960 with a curly coated kitten named Kirlee. Its curls…
The Cornish Rex began in Cornwall, England, in 1950 with a curly coated kitten named Kallibunker.
The Chartreux is a historic French breed with a dense, water resistant blue gray coat and copper to…
The Burmilla began in the United Kingdom in 1981 after an unplanned litter between a Chinchilla Persian and…
The modern Burmese traces back to Wong Mau, a brown cat brought from Burma to San Francisco in…
The British Shorthair is one of England's oldest breeds, descended from street and farm cats of Great Britain.…
The Bombay was developed in Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1950s by breeder Nikki Horner, who crossed sable Burmese…
The Birman is often called the Sacred Cat of Burma, thanks to a legend about temple cats. The…
The Bengal was developed in the United States by crossing domestic cats with the Asian leopard cat, a…
The Balinese is essentially a longhaired Siamese, developed in the United States in the mid 1900s. It has…
The American Wirehair began in 1966 with a kitten born on a farm in Verona, New York, with…
The American Shorthair descends from cats that sailed with early European settlers to North America, where they earned…
The American Curl began with a stray named Shulamith found in Lakewood, California, in 1981. Her unusual ears…
The American Bobtail was developed in the United States in the 1960s. Its naturally short tail is usually…
The Abyssinian is one of the oldest known cat breeds. It is named after Abyssinia, now Ethiopia, though…