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The Feline Family
The wildcat, the house cat, and the breeds that carry both.
5 entries · curated by QuanShu
Felidae
Cat
The domestic cat is a small, solitary hunter that chose the human settlement — and then the human sofa. Its story is one of the least intentional domestications in history.
Felidae
African Wildcat
The African wildcat is the small, tabby-striped ancestor of the domestic cat, widespread across Africa and southwestern Asia but increasingly diluted by hybridization.
Cat breeds
Maine Coon
The Maine Coon is New England's native longhair: a large, slow-maturing cat with a shaggy coat, a sociable temperament, and inherited heart and joint conditions that breeders screen for.
Cat breeds
Siamese cat
A pointed, blue-eyed cat from Thailand, bred to a long wedge and a loud voice — and shaped by a small set of inherited risks that breeders now test for.
Cat breeds
Persian cat
The long-coated, flat-faced cat of the drawing room: an old breed whose extreme type has put breathing, eyes and breeding at the center of a modern welfare debate.