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Child-Friendly Cat BreedsAny cat can make an ideal family pet, but some breeds are more suitable than others. The cats featured in this article have a combination of a friendly and easygoing personality, playfulness, energy, and they get along with children and other pets. |
Curly coated cats have spontaneously appeared throughout the world from time to time. Many disappear quickly, while others go on to create new breeds of cat.
The German Rex is one of the oldest of the Rex cats. In 1930-1931, a cat existed by the name of Kater Munk who was owned by Frau Schneider. Munk was said to be the offspring of a Russian Blue/Angora cross. He is the earliest recorded example of a rex cat and was referred to as a Prussian Rex.
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One of the oldest natural breeds in the world, the Korat originates from Thailand and the breed gets its name from the province of Cao Nguyen Khorat.
The Korat is featured in the Cat-Book Poems, a book dating back to 1350-1767 which is held in the National Gallery of Bangkok.
Pronounced kim-rick, the Cymric is a longhaired Manx cat. The breed gets its name from the Celtic word for Wales, Cymru and was given to the breed due to the close proximity of Wales to the Isle of Man, where the Cymric comes from. Some societies and countries refer to the breed as the Longhaired Manx.
One of the rarest cats in the cat fancy, the California Spangled resembles a miniature leopard.Â
Hollywood scriptwriter and playwright Paul Casey decided to create to publicise the plight of spotted wildcats cats after a visit to Africa where he was told of the death of the last remaining breeding leopard in the area. Encouraged by the anthropologist Louis Leakey, he wanted to create a breed that looked like a small leopard but was domesticated.
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The Chausie (chow-sie) is another man-made breed that is a cross between a domestic cat to a Jungle Cat (Felis chaus). The Jungle Cat is a close relative to the domestic cat (F. Lybica) and distribution is from north Africa to southeast Asia.
Matings between the Jungle Cat and domestic have occurred naturally in the past. But people began to cross these cats in the 1960s and 1970s to create a wild looking cat with the temperament of a domestic cat. There is little information on these cats or if any attempt was made to develop a breed and register them.
In the 1990s a group of breeders began to cross the Jungle Cat to domestic cats. TICA accepted the Chausie for registration status in 1995 and granted full championship status in 2013.
As of now, the only allowable outcrosses are the Jungle Cat, Abyssinian and the domestic.
