For those of us that are unaware of the term teacup cats it seems like quite a strange phenomenon when someone mentions the term. You may have heard of miniature cats being sold but teacup cats have a slightly different meaning to them.
You can visualize that tea cup cats as miniature cats but they are little different as far as their characteristics 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 never 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.
Buying a teacup cat needs you to know certain details like this otherwise you might fall into the trap that is set by some dubious cat breeders. The cheats in the business often try 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 simply love to have a tea cup Persian cat as pet as they are so attractive. Persian cats are generally considered to be good house pets as they are cuddly and sweet.
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 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 correct size is acquired after a few generations.
The complete process of cutting down the size has a relation to the Japanese art of dwarfism of a tree. A similar process is practiced 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 leading 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.
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