|
Singapura
Cat
The Singapura Cat is a recognized
breed of cat.
These exerts are from the UK Singapura Cat Club.
|
Singapura
Cat
Click
Pic To Enlarge |
"The Singapura
cat is an alert, healthy, medium sized cat of foreign type.
The body has
good bone structure and is moderately stocky and muscular, yet gives an
impression of great elegance.
Female Singapura
cats are usually smaller than the males,
but still feel heavier than they look.
The strong slender legs taper to
small oval feet. The tail should be slender but not whippy. and should have
a blunt tip.
Body color is an old or golden ivory with a
soft warm effect, ticked with sepia brown. Each hair has at least two bands
of sepia brown ticking, separated by light bands - light next to skin, and
dark tip. Muzzle, chest, stomach and inner legs are an unticked light ivory color.
Singapura cats should have some barring on their inner front legs and back
knees. The coat is short, fine, silky, and close-lying.
The Singapura
cat breed has noticeably large eyes and
ears. Eyes are large, set not less than an eye width apart, held wide open,
but showing slant when closed or partially closed. A dark outline to the
eyes is desirable.
Eye color hazel, green or yellow only. Ears are large,
wide open at base, and deep cupped. The outer line of the ears extends
upwards to an angle slightly wide of parallel.
The Singapura
cats head is gently rounded with a definite
whisker break and a medium short, broad muzzle with a blunt nose.
In
profile, the Singapura cat has a rounded skull with a slight stop just below
eye level. There must be evidence of dark pigment outline on the nose.
‘Cheetah’ lines from the inner corner of the eye towards just behind the
whisker pad should be present.
The original home of the Singapura cat is
the island of Singapore, with the breed taking its name from the local Malay
name for the island - meaning ‘Lion City".
The breed is the result of
mother nature’s combination of genes indigenous to South East Asia - both
the brown as in Siamese and Burmese and the agouti or ticked pattern.
The
area is the highest epicenter for the agouti gene, according to geneticist,
Neal Todd, who has published articles on the migration of feline genes.
This
breed is the same color as seal point cats or brown Burmese, but the
difference is the agouti coat pattern and how it interacts with the sepia
brown."
Information
source: Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
|
