Cats of rare breeds: name and description. The rarest breed of cats in the world

Cats ... are wayward, mysterious and even slightly mystical creatures. It is no accident that they prefer to have them as pets. Of course, felines require careful care, but in return you can get a sea of affection, and most importantly, an absolutely equal position with all members of the family.

Cat in the history of mankind

After all, these pets will not tolerate humiliation, they only allow a man to love himself and take care of his cat person. Even in ancient manuscripts about the life of high-ranking people, one can find a mention of their favorite cats.

In ancient Egypt, even there was a goddess Bast with the head of a cat, responsible for femininity, beauty and a home. To their soft-hued favorites, the Egyptians built tombs.

Time passed, but the man did not pass the love for cats, she just got stronger. People learned how to breed new breeds, learned how to preserve ancient species. Breeders try to surprise their customers, offer them new, unusual felines. We will analyze the most rare breeds of cats with photos and names.

What breeds are rare?

What does the concept of "rare breed" include? It is erroneous to consider that these rocks have appeared recently (although, for the most part, this is so). Some cats of rare breeds were carefully guarded by breeders for centuries and came down to us from ancient times.

Although, most often unusual feline - still a product of breeding, brought to perfection. Indeed, every person, including a genetic scientist, has his own idea of beauty. Someone likes fluffy mourning homebodies, but someone dreams of domesticating a wild cat, leaving a demented nature and habits of a predator. So cats of rare breeds are deduced (photo of each of them we will present in the article).

It should be said at once that it is not possible for an average breeder to breed such a breed by crossing, for example, a Thai cat and an Angora cat . This is considered a gross violation of the rules. Cats of rare breeds are exposed for years - this is a rather complicated technology.

What are they for? Breeders pursue two goals: aesthetic and financial. You will agree that it is very unusual for a cat with different eyes to color, and how all short-tailed pythomists are touched. The tailless, not covered with hair, with bizarre ears, like a miniature leopard - there are a lot of options. And of course, for the pleasure of having an unusual python in the house, you will have to pay generously.

The rarest breed of cats - the pleasure is far from cheap (starting price of 20 thousand dollars). But people who want to have such pets are unusually many. Some breeds even queue up.

Kao-mani

So, let's start listing rare breeds of cats. We will acquaint readers with photographs and names. Let's talk about the history of the breed, the nature of the character, care and predisposition to disease.

A cat with unusual eyes - kao-mani. It differs from its relatives in that it has a different color of the cornea: green and blue. In English-speaking countries these beauties are also called the diamond eye. This breed comes from Thailand. Even in the texts of the XIV century, the description of these white-and-white cats is mentioned, which, incidentally, was available only to royal people. Surprisingly, for the general public, tao-mani became known only in 2009.

These curious, very intelligent cats have a slender, muscular body, covered with white, well-fitting hair, short enough. Tao-mani have a very characteristic 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. Quite often the individuals with the same green, iris color. They are bred in Thailand and few US states.

These cats need a company, both human and similar. Communication for them is very necessary. They are not crazy about strangers, they tolerate children.

Tao-mani - can boast of excellent health. The "weakest" place is the ears. There are individuals deaf to one of the ears, although the breeders carefully follow this: they cross only cats, healthy on both ears.

Turkish van

Another rare breed of cats in the world is the Turkish van. Its uniqueness is determined primarily by the love of water. Turkish Vans are wonderful swimmers, they like to run in shallow water or catch small fishes at shallow depths.

This is not the only distinctive feature of the breed. Turkish Vans are large, medium-length wool. In addition, she is completely devoid of undercoat - this explains the love of the breed to the water. The characteristic color is pure white with red-chestnut spots at the bases of the ears, this tail has the same color. There are cases when there is a bright spot on the shoulder as well.

The cat's body is like a real swimmer: a muscular thorax, powerful paws (moreover, the front ones are noticeably longer than the rear ones), and the tail looks like a brush in shape. Determine the male and female fairly simply: the males are much larger.

The Turkish van is a breed that gets along well with people, they are brilliantly trained, very playful. With walks, too, problems do not arise: it can be either a harness, to which Turkish Vans are quickly accustomed, either aviary, or free-range with the host.

Munchkin and Napoleon

Munchkins are very rare breeds of cats. This is a kind of dachshund feline world. The legs of these cats are disproportionately short in relation to the body.

Their posture is also interesting in a standing position: they rest on the base of the tail and hold the front legs in front of them. In this posture, more characteristic of kangaroos, munchkins can be very long.

The uniqueness of these unusual cats is also in the fact that the short legs are not the fruit of breeders' work, but a natural genetic mutation. Thus, the breed came from quite ordinary domestic cats, in the genotype of which a special dominant gene of "short-tailed" appeared. This explains the variety of shades, colors and length of the coat.

Munchkins do not have good health, they are hard enough to survive in the natural environment.

Napoleon - this is the name of rare breeds of cats that appeared by crossing the Munchkin and Persian. A characteristic feature besides short legs is dwarfism. The maximum weight of Napoleon is only two kilograms.

Serengeti

Serengeti - another cats of rare breeds. Their population in the world has only a few hundred copies! They removed serenget in the USA. The breeder-pioneer wanted to show the world a breed that, repeating the external qualities of the African serval, would be absolutely manual and domestic. Years of searching were crowned with success: the result was a graceful, extraordinarily beautiful cat.

Surprisingly, in the genotype of serenget there is not a single gene of wild serval. However, she is very unusual in appearance. But the character - home, calm, friendly. Cats have a muscular body, long legs and powerful paws. Coloring is allowed black or smoky with pronounced spots of rounded form (horizontal stretching is allowed) or black with barely noticeable spots. Another feature is a large wedge-shaped head resembling the head of a wild feline. Moreover, this sign manifests itself at birth.

Serengeti are clever, graceful, very stubborn natures. These cats will not tolerate the appearance in the house of someone more important than them. They are the center of everything. Another feature is unsurpassed talkativeness and company spirit.

The most common disease of the breed is urolithiasis.

Caracal

Very rare breeds of cats include and caracals. Yes, it's not cats at all, but the real wild lynx, only small in size (compared to other species of the species). In the wild, caracals live in steppes and savannas (hence the name "steppe lynx").

From ordinary lynx, these cats are also different in color: the coat is thick, rather short, the color of the brick color (sometimes sandy), the characteristic spots are only on the muzzle. Karakal in Turkish means "black ear" - it really is. His ears are crowned with charming brushes of black color. These cats are very tight, muscular, with very long paws.

At home, the life span of a caracal reaches 18 years. However, deciding to start it, you need to realize that this is not at all domestic purring cats - wild predatory habits remain for life.

Toiger

Want to start a domestic tiger in miniature? Then the toger is what you need. His literal translation from English "toy tiger". The only thing is, these kittens are decent: from 10 thousand dollars. What is unique about the Toygers? Its coloring, contrast in everything. The most important thing is tiger black strips, moreover, monochrome, devoid of any color transitions. They are contrasted with a tawny background. The tips of the paws and the tail are always black. Body taut, muscular. By the way, do not overfeed a toger - this is one of the mistakes of the owners. The front paws are crowned with thick, powerful pads.

Toygers are very sociable cats, they get on well with children. They are amenable to education and training. At the same time, the teghers are calm enough and flexible, they will not demand constant games, much more these rare breed cats like to sit on the hands of the owner.

Asher

With the advent of this breed is associated a very scandalous story, and the "creator" of it is still wanted by the police. The fact is that in 2007, specialized (and not only) publications began to dazzle with information that "the rarest breed of cats in the world" was deduced. These extraordinarily clever and faithful to the human soft-skinned creatures are also completely hypoallergenic.

However, after a number of genetic examinations it was established that asher is nothing but a kind of savanna - a cat of the same rare breed, but known to the public. But before the truth is established, many people have fallen for such an exotic fishing rod, laying out for kittens for 20 thousand dollars

Asher is truly a giant of the feline world, after all, according to the creators, it contains the genotype of Serval, Asian leopard and domestic cats. Indeed, their height reaches one meter. There may be a few colors, the rarest (there are only four kittens a year on average) has golden-orange spots, the other has an ashy shade and the most common is with black spots, like a leopard.

Winners rating: home serval

So, we dismantled the rarest breed of cats, photos and their names also resulted. However, there are three winners. So, the house serval. Sometimes it seems that this cat does not live at all with a man, but only came from the forest to stay. In part, this is the case, because no one specifically designed the breed for the house, just people realized that the servals are beautifully domesticated.

However, habits remain wild. Servals are wonderful hunters, they like to run, jump, overtake prey. Breeders should take this into account. It is unlikely that this breed will get along in an ordinary apartment - more to her liking will be a mansion with high ceilings, because the jumping of the serval reaches three meters up.

Savannah

The next most rare breed of cats in the world is savannah. We already touched it when we talked about ashera. Savannah was bred in the 80s of the last century. The creators wanted to give people a real home leopard. Then, they thought, the wild cats will be left alone, will not be kept in captivity - in mansions and apartments.

There were savannahs from the crossing of the already known serval and Siamese cat. As a result, from the first they got the habits of a predator and spotting, and from the second, a rather complaisant temper and irrepressible talkativeness.

Savannahs are beautifully trained, and they execute commands that are quite difficult for the cat: "aport", "bring" or "someone else's".

Chauzy

At the top of the rating "Rare breeds of cats in Russia" (and indeed in the whole world) is, according to many, chauzy. These cats can boast a completely unique genotype and extraordinary appearance.

Chauzy is the fruit of a natural (originally) crossing of a wild cane cat and a domestic cat. Only after a long time connoisseurs of soft-skinned have noticed how beautiful these kittens are. It was decided to undertake the breeding of a new breed, a reed cat, but affectionate and domesticated. Only in 2003 it was possible to fix a new breed. However, to this day, its withdrawal is not smooth, it is too difficult to combine genes.

The standard has three colors: black, silver or tabby. The last two are ticked, i.e. Color uneven, with interspersed bands. A prerequisite is a clear pattern on the head, also the ears and the tip of the tail.

Chauzy are wonderful companions for their owners, but the predatory habits of a reed cat remain: they swim and hunt in the water, make reserves when the host does not see, jumps well. These cats do not accept dry feed, even exclusive ones, - only meat should be in the diet. Gastrointestinal chowzy simply does not digest cereals and vegetables.