Breeding A Tea Cup Persian Cat
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
You may be confused when you hear the words tea cup cats and wonder what it means when others are talking about it. Tea cup cats are quite dissimilar from miniature cats about which you may be aware of.
When we talk of ordinary cats they weigh between eleven to fourteen pounds in females and around seventeen pounds in males. Though tea cup cats are tiny cats too but features of a tea cup variety differs from a normal one.
A tea cup cat never weighs beyond eight pounds and at the lower level they remain at only three pounds. So when you see a tea cup cat being offered in the market for sale you can find out if the cat is a genuine tea cup or not by keeping these weight marks in mind.
Buying a teacup cat needs you to know certain details like this otherwise you might fall into the trap that is set by some unscrupulous cat breeders. The cheats in the business often attempt to sell any Persian cat that is less than ten pounds as a teacup cat whereas in reality such a cat is actually to be counted amongst the common Persians. Hence be informed that just because a Persian cat weighs less than ten pounds doesnt make it a teacup cat.
Many people find the teacup Persian cat variety to be very appealing. As it is Persian cats are considered to be extremely cute and cuddly making them an excellent choice for a home pet.
The tea cup cats can be very demanding as far as love and care is concerned due to their small size and delicate nature. And the cat owners are more than ready to shower their attention on them.
The tea cup cats do not come naturally and are bred by a process called inbreeding. Here the cat breeders mate the smallest variety of one breed with the smallest variety of another. The size of the off springs slowly decreases with the coming of each new generation thus gradually the exact size is acquired after a few generations.
The whole process of reducing the size has a relation to the Japanese art of dwarfism of a tree. A similar process is used to dwarf the cats size. When we take the case of tea cup Persian cats however there are two methods involved in the procedure of dwarfism.
The key procedure which is followed in dwarfism is mutating of genes which goes by the name of achondroplasia. Here the mutation affects the balance of the cats body. Due to this balance the bone growth of the cat is controlled resulting in overall smaller bones. Tea cup Persians is more popular than any other tea cup cats in the world.
The author runs a website dedicated to white Persian cats. For more information on mini teacup persian cats follow the links.
