Topic
Cat breeds
The registered varieties of the domestic cat.
3 entries in Animalia
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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.
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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.
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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.