The Characteristics Of Tea Cup Persian Cats

By Cynthia Turner

It is quite odd to hear the words tea cup cats when someone talks about it and you dont know what it means. You may be aware of miniature cats in the market but tea cup cats are supposed to be something different.

Teacup Persian cats are miniature cats but they vary with regards to some very specific details. A normal female cat weighs somewhere between eleven to fourteen pounds and a male cat can go up to seventeen.

In relation to normal cats the tea cup one weighs only a meager three pounds going up till eight pounds at the most and never beyond that. Keeping these weight factors in mind you can take a look at a tea cup cat on sale come to know at once whether a cat is a real tea cup variety or not.

When you are looking for a tea cup cat you should be concious of the qualities of a tea cup cat otherwise you may be fooled by some cat breeder of doubtful quality. Any seller who would want to cheat you will offer a cat which is less than ten pounds in weight as a tea cup cat but this cat is a Persian cat of common variety. Those Persian cats which weigh ten pounds or less do not necessarily become a tea cup Persian.

Many people think 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 gradually decreases with the coming of each new generation thus gradually the exact size is acquired after a few generations.

The complete 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.

There is one process which is called achondroplasia. According to this procedure the principal gene grows while mutating. This mutation has a direct effect on the cats body. The balance thus produced controls bone growth resulting in smaller bone structure. You will come across number of tea cup cats of various breeds out of which Persian cats are by far the most popular. - 29895

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