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It should come as no surprise to readers that Turkish Angora cats are not known as Turkish Angora cats in their native Turkey. They are known as Ankara cats, or Ankara Kedisi. However, the history of this breed is one of the more fascinating, as it spans centuries where, at one point, it almost ... Read More about Turkish Angora Cat

A relatively young breed, the Toyger cat is a cross between a Bengal cat and other domestic cats. It was first developed in the 1980s by Judy Sugden, by crossing in particular a Domestic Shorthair and a Bengal cat. In the few generations since this cross-breed, the breeding has produced a creature ... Read More about Toyger Cat

The Tonkinese breed is supposedly named because, like the Burmese and Siamese cats, their genetic heritage is in Southeast Asia. Tonkin is an old name for one part of what is now Vietnam. However, the name is actually a variant on its original name, "Tonkanese," used by Canadian breeders as a ... Read More about Tonkinese Cat

The Sphynx cat, also called the Canadian hairless, is a well-known breed precisely because of its lack of fur. While such hairless cats are known to emerge naturally every 15 years or so, it was only in the 1960s, in Canada, that breeders began to breed the Sphynx in earnest. This was a consequence ... Read More about Sphynx Cat

Somali cats were the inadvertent result of Abyssinian cat breeding back in the 1950s, when it was found that some kittens were born with bottle-brush tails and much longer, fluffly coats than regular Abyssinian cats. These irregular Abyssinians were at first neutered and given away as pets, but some ... Read More about Somali Cat

The Sokoke cat is a breed that originated in Africa and has mostly been bred in Western Europe. Originally known as the Khadzonzos, these cats originate in the Sokoke-Arabuke forests of Kenya, where a Kenyan farmer named Jeni Fraser found them. The Kenyan farmer, according to the account, found five ... Read More about Sokoke Cat

Snowshoe cats were first bred in the 1960s as a result of cross-breeding between a Siamese cat and an American short-hair. The first breeder, Dorothy Daughtery of Philadelphia, PA, produced three Snowshoe kittens and passed them on to another cat breeder. It is one of the rarest cat breeds in the ... Read More about Snowshoe Cat