Кошки… такие своенравные, загадочные и даже чуть mystical creatures. It is no coincidence that they prefer to start as pets. Of course, for the cat requires careful care, but, in return, you can get a sea of affection, and most importantly, an absolutely equal position with all family members.
After all, these pets will not tolerate humiliation,they only allow a person to love themselves and care for their feline persona. Even in the ancient manuscripts about the life of high-ranking people can be found mention of their favorite cats.
In ancient Egypt, even the goddess Bast existed with the head of a cat, responsible for femininity, beauty and home. The Egyptians built tombs to their soft-clad darlings.
Elapsed time, but the person did not have a love forcats, it only got stronger. People learned to breed new breeds, learned how to preserve old species. Breeders are trying to surprise their customers, offer them new, unusual feline. Let us examine the rarest breeds of cats with photos and names.
What does the concept of "rare breed" include?it is wrong to assume that these breeds have appeared recently (although, for the most part, this is so). Some cats of rare breeds have been carefully protected by breeders for centuries and have come down to us from ancient times.
Although, most often unusual feline - stillproduct selection, brought to perfection. Indeed, every person, including a geneticist, has his own idea of beauty. Someone likes fluffy purring homebody, and someone wants to domesticate a wild cat, leaving a dexterous disposition and habits of a predator. And cats of rare breeds are derived (we will present a photo of each of them in the article).
It should immediately be said that breeding such a breedAn average breeder is not capable of crossing, for example, a Thai cat and an Angora cat. This is considered a gross violation of the rules. Cats of rare breeds are derived over the years - this is quite a complicated technology.
What are they for?Breeders have two goals: aesthetic and financial. Agree that a cat with eyes of different color looks very unusual, and how short-footed pet touches everyone. Tailless, not covered with wool, with fancy ears, like a miniature leopard - a lot of options. And of course, for the pleasure of having an unusual pet in the house, you will have to pay generously.
The rarest breeds of cats - pleasure farnot cheap (starting price is 20 thousand dollars). But people who want to have such pets, an unusually large. Behind some rocks even queues are lined up.
So, let's start listing the rare breeds of cats. With photos and their names, we will introduce readers. Tell you about the history of the breed, the nature of the character, care and susceptibility to disease.
Кошка с необычными глазами – као-мани.It differs from its relatives by the fact that it has a different color of the cornea: green and blue. In the English-speaking countries, these beauties are also called the “diamond eye” - the diamond eye.
These curious, very smart cats have slim,muscular body, covered with white, well-fitting coat, rather short. Tao-mani have a very distinctive genotype, so not every pure-white cat with multi-colored eyes will belong to this breed. By the way, the color of the eyes may be absent. Individuals with the same green iris color are quite frequent. Bred them in Thailand and a few US states.
These cats need the company as a person and their own kind. Communication is very necessary for them. They do not play around strangers, tolerate children.
Тао-мани – могут похвастаться отменным здоровьем.The “weakest” place is the ears. There are individuals that are deaf to one of the ears, although breeders carefully monitor this: they cross only cats that are healthy to both ears.
Another rare cat breed in the world is Turkish.van Its uniqueness is determined primarily by the love of water. Turkish baths are excellent swimmers, they love to run in shallow water or catch small fish at shallow depths.
This is not the only distinguishing feature of the breed.Turkish vans belong to a large, medium-sized wool. In addition, she is completely devoid of undercoat - this explains the breed's love for water. Characteristic color - pure white with red-chestnut spots at the base of the ears, the same color of the tail. There are often cases when there is a bright spot on the shoulder.
The cat's body is like a real swimmer:muscular chest, powerful paws (moreover, the front ones are noticeably longer than the hind ones), and the tail is shaped like a brush. To determine the male and female is quite simple: the males are much larger.
Turkish van is a breed that gets along well withpeople, they are brilliantly trained, very playful. With walks, too, there are no problems: it can be either a harness, to which Turkish vans quickly learn, or an open-air cage, or a free range with the owner.
Munchkins are very rare breeds of cats. This is a kind of dachshund of the feline world. The paws of these cats are disproportionately short in relation to the body.
Interesting and their posture in a standing position:they rest on the base of the tail and hold the front legs in front of them. In such a position, more typical of kangaroos, the munchkins can be very long.
The uniqueness of these unusual cats is also in the fact that short legs are not the fruit of the breeders' labor, but a natural genetic mutation.
Munchkins do not have good health, it is difficult enough for them to survive in their natural environment.
Napoleon is the name of a rare breed of cat,appeared by crossing the munchkins and the Persian. A characteristic feature in addition to short legs - dwarfism. The maximum weight of Napoleons is only two kilograms.
Serengeti - one more cats of rare breeds.Their population in the world is just a few hundred! Brought the Serengeti in the United States. The pioneer breeder wanted to present to the world a breed that, repeating the external qualities of an African serval, would be absolutely handmade and homely. Years of search were crowned with success: the result was a graceful, extraordinarily beautiful cat.
Surprisingly, in the genotype of the Serengeti there is not a singlewild serval gene. However, she is unusually like him in appearance. But the nature - homely, calm, friendly. Cats have a muscular body, long legs and powerful legs. The color is allowed to be black or smoky with pronounced spots of a rounded shape (stretching horizontally is allowed) or black with barely noticeable spots. Another feature is a large wedge-shaped head resembling the head of a wild representative of the cat. Moreover, this feature is already manifested at birth.
Serengeti is smart, graceful, very stubbornnature. These cats will not tolerate the appearance of someone in their home. They are the center of everything. Another feature is unsurpassed talkativeness and convivial spirit.
The most common breed disease is urolithiasis.
Very rare breeds of cats include andcaracals. And these are not cats at all, but real wild lynxes, only of small size (compared to other representatives of the species). Caracals live in the wild in the steppes and savannas (hence the name "steppe lynx").
These cats differ from a usual lynx in a coloring: wool is thick, rather short, a coloring of brick color (sometimes sandy), characteristic spots are only on a muzzle.
В домашних условиях продолжительность жизни Caracal reaches 18 years. However, having decided to start it, it is necessary to realize that these are not domestic purring cats - wild predatory habits remain for a lifetime.
Want to have a homemade tiger in miniature?Then the toyger is what you need. His literal translation from English "toy tiger." The only thing these kittens are well: from 10 thousand dollars. What is unique toyger? Its colors, contrasting throughout. The most important thing is tiger black stripes, moreover, they are monochromatic, devoid of any color transitions. They stand out against a reddish brown background. The tips of the paws and tail are always black. Body toned, muscular. By the way, do not overfeed toyger - this is one of the mistakes of the owners. The front legs are crowned with thick powerful pads.
Toygers are very sociable cats, they are beautifulget along with children. Well amenable to education and training. At the same time, toygers are calm and docile enough, they will not demand regular games, much more these cats of rare breeds like to sit on the hands of the owner.
With the advent of this breed is associated verya scandalous story, and its “creator” is still wanted by the police. The fact is that in 2007 specialized (and not only) publications began to be replete with information that “the rarest breed of cats in the world” was derived. These extraordinarily intelligent and devoted to man soft-eyed creatures are also completely hypoallergenic.
However, after a series of genetic examinations wasIt is established that the Usher is nothing but a kind of savannah - cats are also a rare breed, but known to the public. But before the truth was established, many people had already fallen for such an exotic bait, having laid out 20 thousand dollars for the kittens.
Ashera is truly a giant of the feline world, becauseto the creators' statement, the genotype of serval, Asian leopard and domestic cats is embedded in it. Indeed, their height reaches one meter. There may be several colors, the rarest ones (there are only four kittens on average per year) have golden-orange spots, the other is ashy and the most common is with black spots like a leopard.
So, we have dismantled the rarest breeds of catsphotos and names also led them. However, there are three winners. So home serval. Sometimes it seems that this cat does not live at all with a man, but only came out of the woods to stay. In part, this is the case, because nobody brought out the breed specifically for the house, it’s just that people understood that servals are very domesticated.
Однако повадки остаются дикими.Servals are great hunters, they love to run, jump, overtake prey. Breeders should take this into account. It is unlikely that this breed will get along in a regular apartment - more to her taste will be a mansion with high ceilings, because Serval's jumps reach three meters up.
The next most rare breed of cat in the world issavannah. We have already touched her when we talked about Asher. Savannah was bred in the 80s of the last century. The creators wanted to give people a real home leopard. Then, they thought, wild cats would be left alone, they would not be kept in captivity - in mansions and apartments.
There were savanna from crossing already knownwe serval and Siamese cat. As a result, from the first they got the habits of a predator and spotting, and from the second they had a rather agreeable temper and irrepressible talkativeness.
Savannas are perfectly trained, and they perform commands that are rather difficult for the cats: “aport”, “bring” or “alien”.
At the top of the rating "Rare breeds of cats in Russia" (and indeed all over the world) stands, in the opinion of many, Chauzi These cats can boast a completely unique genotype and an outstanding appearance.
Chauzi is the fruit of a natural (initially) cross between a wild reed cat and a domestic cat. Only after a long time, connoisseurs of soft-lapdaws noticed how beautiful these kittens are.
Standard fixed three color:black, silver or tabby. The last two are ticked, i.e. color uneven, interspersed with bands. A prerequisite is a clear pattern on the head, also on the ears and the tip of the tail.
Chawzi - great companions for theirthe owners, however, the predatory habits of the reed cat remain: they swim and hunt in the water, make stocks, when the owner does not see, they jump well. These cats do not accept dry food, even exclusive, in the diet should be only meat. The gastrointestinal tract of Chausi simply does not digest cereals and vegetables.
