What is a Persian cat?

Persian cat, also known as Persia, Jinjila or Himalaya, is called Persian cat in Latin. In people's minds, their names represent aristocrats. In China, most people started to keep pet cats from Persian cats. However, the Persian cats raised by most breeders are not pure Persian cats, but non-pure Persian cats raised by some merchants to cater to the consumer market, which can be seen from their prices. Generally speaking, the price of pure Persian cats is thousands of dollars.

Like many cats, although it is called Persian cat, it is not a breed born in Persia. Persian cat originated in Persia (Iran), which is a breed born in Britain after more than 100 years of breeding based on Afghan native long-haired cats and Angora long-haired cats from Turkey or Armenia. It is said that Queen Victoria has two blue Persian cats, and Prince of Wales (Edward VII) praised them at the cat exhibition. Since then, Persian cats have become more and more famous, and the public adores them.

CFA divides Persian cats into seven subspecies according to their coat color distribution: solid color, silver &; Gold, shadow and blue. Smoke gray, plain, variegated, calico and white. Bicolor, Himalayan. According to the color distribution of Persian cats, GCCF divides Persian cats into 12 subspecies: bicolor cats, embossed cats, chinchillas, color-changing cats, exotic cats (short-haired cats, Persian cats), golden cats, white pheasants, self cats, dark silver cats, smoking cats, Torti cats, Torti cats and Torti cats. White.

Persian cats are distributed all over the world. Despite the fierce impact of new cats such as bag cats, exotic short-haired cats and folded-eared cats, the status of Persian cats as "the most favored cats" has not been shaken, which is enough to show how attractive Persian cats are.

? Misunderstanding of Persian cats

Many people think that Persian cats must have different colors, but this is not the case. It is generally believed that apart from the most familiar blue, Persian cats have amber, green, copper, gold, strange color and two different eyes (mandarin duck eyes).