Cat
appearance is
very important to people in the cat fancy - the cat
breeders and associations. It might be that there has been a
slight over emphasis on appearance possibly at the expense of cat
health and temperament.
It would seem that people outside the cat fancy are
less concerned with it.
Certainly, according to my research, very few people search Google for
"cat appearance" but that said, people do want to see pictures of cats
and cat breeds, which is one of the purposes of this website.
This page sets out links to the pages on which I discuss matters
relating to cat appearance be they purebred cats, moggie cats or feral
cats. It is a pulling together of the strands of posts on this
important topic.
Here are the
links on cat appearance:-
The
cats alphabetically - these
are also in the navbar
As there are many pages dedicated to the cat breeds these pages must be
the starting point if cat appearance is what is being
searched for. This page contains references to specific
articles on the topic of cat appearance, which have been made either at
a general level or in relation to a cat breed or wildcat species.
For people involved in the cat fancy it is the breed standards that
guide them on the appearance of a cat. These are carefully produced
documents that usually describe in words without the assistance of
images how the cat breed in question should look. They are open to
interpretaton by the show hall judges. This has caused a gradual drift
in the appearance of some cat breeds, an evolution if you like of the
cat; the judges, breeders and cat associations working together
unwittingly or knowingly to change the cat's appearance.
