Why Tea Cup Persian Cats Are So Popular

By Cynthia Turner

It is quite odd to hear the term 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.

You can imagine that tea cup cats as miniature cats but they are little different as far as their features are concerned. When we refer to normal cats the female weighs around fourteen pounds and a male up to seventeen pounds.

A tea cup cat cannot weighs more than eight pounds and at the lower level they remain at only three pounds. So when you see a tea cup cat being sold 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.

Knowing the dominant characteristics of a tea cup cat will certainly help you when you plan to acquire one and will save you from the clutches of cat breeders of questionable characters. If they want to cheat you they will offer a cat which weighs less than ten pounds and try to pass it off as tea cup Persian but actually these are ordinary cats. You must realize that a tea cup will weigh only up to eight pounds and no more.

Many people find the teacup Persian cat variety to be very charming. As it is Persian cats are considered to be extremely cute and cuddly making them an excellent choice for a home pet.

The teacup Persian cat with its exceptionally small size and delicate nature is all the more demanding of love and care which is one of the things that cat owners instinctively do.

The tea cup cats do not come naturally and are bred by a method called inbreeding. Here the cat breeders mate the smallest category 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.

If you are familiar with Japanese Bonsai method you will realize how the trees size is reduced by the process of dwarfism. In the same way the cats size is decreased with the process of dwarfism. The dwarfism of Persian tea cup cats involves two methods.

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. - 29957

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