Cat Breeds - Korat Cat

Cat Personality - Korat Cat

Korat cat are like Siamese voice of their comrades, they have different desires Airways flights to stab you. The dinner will they wrap around the ankle to above the shoulder, and perhaps you will say to a gap in the shins if you do not get along with cats, but as something important to say what they think.

At the level of activity of the cat, 8: social, fun and full of life, but bounce off the wall hyper. They have also been reported to have great intelligence.

Like the Siamese, Cat Korat be thrown fetches of toys, the cat's favorite game, if you take an active role. CRAVE cat Korat affection of people, and the timing to get your hands on your knees, arms, and your heart.

Cat Breed Traits - Korat Cat

Coat and color, but also as a kind of muscular body and semi-squat, set apart this race. The coat is a solid blue with silver tabby markings or shade, but trees at the roots of the hair lighter and a darker blue are just before the toes. The coat is with silver tips, resulting in a silvery sheen or (halo effect) of the coat. The Cat Korat is one (ugly duckling), the phase and not the true beauty of 2-4 years to meet. The eye color is often not the case, until the cat matures.

History Cat Breeds (Korat Cat)

The Cat-Book Poems, a manuscript of poems and pictures, written 1350-1767 AD in Thailand, the first pictures and descriptions of Korat. Artists and writers of the document, whose names long forgotten, to shine in description of the Korat as a happy cat, with eyes the color of new rice as a dewdrop on a lotus leaf, and a body color of the rain-clouds and money. Unlike the Siamese cats were the source of the first people from Thailand, which are owned by royalty, were the people resources of ordinary people Korat cats and people who have been a valuable source of life for happiness.

Called Si Sawat (ie, color, and the plan is the name of a fruit plant seeds silvery blue) the human resources were seldom sold in Korat, but the people were as different expressions of the source of respect and appreciation. New brides were the human resources has a pair of cats, if Sawat happy in her marriage.

When the Cat-Book Poems produced during the middle of the fourteenth century or the middle of the eighteenth century, it makes little difference. In both cases, the Korat is one of the oldest breeds of domestic cat, with his compatriots, Mr. Brown, Siamese, Burmese, and Havana, considered also described in the manuscript. The Korat is also one of the purest breeds today it looks like their wild ancestors, who roamed the jungles of the Malay Peninsula.

Jean Johnson is credit with the first Korat cats in America. Johnson, who lives with her husband in Bangkok for 6 years, tried unsuccessfully to buy a pair of Korat. And in 1959 was "finally a pair of Korat Royal Thai Government. The couple, Nara and Darra was America Foundation Korat. To avoid inbreeding, crossed Nara and Darra to Siamese Johnson was also brought from Thailand. Then slowly, without the Siamese Features used in their herd. (Some researchers believe that the Korat is return the favor to the Siamese. The theory blue dot from a cross between the point of poetry and Korat, because there is no trace of the ancestors of the first true blue dots).

In 1960, more than Korat in Thailand by the resource persons have received. In 1966, the ACA is the first American Association for recognition of Korat, the CFA was followed later this year. Today, the Korat is recognized by all the stops in the United States and, although rare, has been promoted by a growing and dedicated group of breeders and enthusiasts.

Today, in his home, the Korat is hard to find and difficult to export. Reduced in recent years the number has been and continues to appreciated by the people in Thailand who still believe that the cat is a symbol of good luck. A recent story about a man who Thai Korat cat registration select the numbers for a lottery ticket and winning looks.

Copyright © 1998 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. based on
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CAT BREEDS by J. Anne Helgren.