MESSYBEAST CATS
BREEDING ETHICS, PURPORTED BREED ORIGINS AND LOST BREEDS

 

BREEDING PRACTICES & ETHICS

Cat Population Control Vs Discovering New Breeds
Cat Breed and Colour Codes (EMS Codes) Deciphered
Cat Registries (A Broad Definition)
Cat World Designer Cat ("Anti-Munchkin") Debate
Cosmetic Enhancement
"Designer Breeds" Myths
Ethics of Breeding for Deformity: "Bully" Cats and Short-Faced Sphynxes
Ethics of Breeding for Deformity: Extreme Brachycephaly
Ethics of Breeding for Deformity: Twisty Cats
Future Cat Breeds?
Legislation against Extreme Typing, Breeding for Deformity and Genetic Defects
Moggy (Mutt Cat) Breeders - No Friend to Cats
Pedigree, Purebred, Mixed Breed, Random-Bred What s the Difference?
Registering Cats - Genotype vs Phenotype
Ultra-Typing and Extreme Mutations
Validity of New and Minority Breeds

PURPORTED BREED ORIGINS

Breeds Originating from South-East Asia
Cat Varieties of the Middle East
Chinese Cat Garden - Early Chinese Cats
False RagaMuffins - TICA-registered Ragdoll-crosses passed off as RagaMuffins
Russian & Ukrainian Cat Breeds
Saving the Burmese - Mod Daeng's Legacy
Shady Story of the Singapura
Tangled Tale of the True Turkish Angora
Uncensored Origins of the Lykoi

BREED HISTORIES

Early Foreign And Oriental Cats Non-Colourpointed Kin Of The Siamese
Early History of Abyssinians
Early History of American Shorthair
Early History of Birmans
Early History of Blue Persians
Early History of Blue Burmese
Early History of Bombay
Early History of Chartreux
Early History of Egyptian Mau
Brief History of Exotic Shorthair
Early History of Ragdolls - the IRCA Days
Early History of Silver and Chinchilla Longhairs
Recent History of Chinchillas: Sterlings and Traditional Silver and Golden Longhairs
Hidden Wildcat Ancestor of the Oriental Shorthair
History of the Tiffany/Chantilly
History and Family Trees of the German Rex
Maine Angora - the Prehistory of the Maine Coon
Maine Coon Variants - Colourpoints and Rexes
White Ragdoll Cats - Fact and Fiction

LOST BREEDS

Albinistic Abyssinian
Burmese (1900s) to Swiss Angora (short notes on several historical lost breeds)
Alaskan Snow Cat to Vienna Woods (short notes on several recently lost breeds)
American Manx
Australian
Black Chinese, White Japanese, Black Siamese, Syrian & Thibet Cat
Black Siamese and Blue-Eyed Black Siamese
Bristol
British Savannah and Bengal-Siamese crosses (a Forgotten Chapter in Bengal History)
Bunny Cat (British Tick)
Californian Spangled Cat
Carthusian, Crimean, Kazan and Tobolsk
Ceylon Cat
Chinese Lop-Eared Cat (Sumxu)
Helki
Iceland Cat
Indian & Malay
Khmer (French Colourpoint Longhair)
Masked Silver Persian
Mexican Hairless Cat
Peke-Faced Cat
Pittsburgh Refrigerator Cat
Singhalese
Suqutranese
Susuki
Swiss Mountain Cat (and Chocolate Siamese)
Sydney Silver (a Forgotten Chapter in Silver Abyssinians)
Texas Blue
Whyo Cat
York Chocolate

 

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