Pet Cat Breeds

About 4,000 years ago there was only one type of pet cat - the North African Wild Cat, tamed by the Egyptians. Over the next 4,000 years, cat owners have worked hard at breeding their cats to promote certain traits. The results are that in modern times we have 41 recognized individual breeds of cats - all developed from those initial one-type pets. Pretty neat!



Long Haired Cats

• American curl
• Balinese
• Birman
• Cymric
• Himalayan
• Javanese
• Kashmir
• Maine coon cat
• Norwegian forest cat
• Oriental longhair
• Persian
• Ragdoll
• Somali
• Turkish Angora
• Turkish Van
  

Short Haired Cats

• Abyssinian
• American curl shorthair
• American shorthair
• American wirehair
• Bombay
• British shorthair
• Burmese
• Chartreux
• Colorpoint shorthair
• Cornish rex
• Devon rex
• Egyptian mau
• Exotic shorthair
• Havana brown
• Japanese bobtail
• Korat
• Manx
• Ocicat
• Oriental shorthair
• Russian blue
• Scottish fold
• Siamese
• Singapura
• Snowshoe
• Sphynx
• Tonkinese