Find Out All About Tea Cup Persians Before You Buy One

By Cynthia Turner

You may be puzzeled when you hear the words tea cup cats and wonder what it means when others are talking about it. Tea cup cats are quite different from miniature cats about which you may be aware of.

When we talk of normal cats they weigh between eleven to fourteen pounds in females and around seventeen pounds in males. Though tea cup cats are miniature cats too but features of a tea cup variety differs from a normal one.

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 past 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 cheated by some cat breeder of doubtful quality. Any seller who would want to trick 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 charming. As it is Persian cats are considered to be extremely cute and cuddly making them an excellent choice for a home pet.

Tea cup Persian variety of cats are very demanding of the undivided affection of the cat owner as they are extremely small and fragile and the cat owner gives it willingly enough.

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 correct size is acquired after a few generations.

The whole 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.

One of these ways is known as achondroplasia. This is the process in which the dominant gene grows while mutating. As a result it has an effect on the hormonal balance in the cats body. This balance then controls the bone growth resulting in smaller overall bone structures. Although there are number of different breeds of teacup cats the Persian is by far the most popular teacup cat in the world. - 31851

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