Nora

Article

Why Your Cat Is Peeing Outside the Litter Box

A cat straining with nothing coming out is an emergency, not a habit. The medical checks that come first, then the four real causes, then the box.

Article

White Cat Names, With the Stories Behind Them

Names for a white cat with their real origins, the only ranking that exists, the two breeds built on white, and what blue eyes actually mean for hearing.

Article

Unique Cat Names: The Rare Ones, With Their Origins

What "unique" actually measures against, four countries' rankings, and 200+ rare names from mythology, literature, science and real cats, each with its origin.

Article

Tuxedo Cat Names, With the Records Checked

Socks, Simon of HMS Amethyst, two Downing Street mousers, and the two famous "tuxedos" who were never tuxedos. The stories checked at source, then the list.

Article

Tabby Cat Names, and the Word That Came Before the Cat

"Tabby" named a striped Baghdad silk sixty years before it named a cat. The four registry patterns, the M legends told honestly, and 180 names by stripe, tiger, cloth and camouflage.

Article

Japanese Cat Names With Real Meanings, From Japan's Own Rankings

Japan's own cat-name rankings (56,111 cats), the reason food names win, the beckoning-cat legend, and 170 names with their kanji and verified meanings.

Article

Girl Cat Names, With the Stories Behind Them

Luna is the top girl cat name in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia, and every insurer counts her reign differently. The rankings, the flower wave, and 200 names with origins.

Article

Funny Cat Names, With the Joke Explained

Chairman Meow, Catrick Swayze, a cat called Gary: the pun mechanics, the human-name joke the insurers measured, the real cats behind the memes, and a 200-name list.

Article

Cute Cat Names: Why They Sound Cute, and 300 That Do

Cute cat names run on one suffix, soft sounds and food words, and a peer-reviewed study says why. The rankings that prove it, the stories behind 35 names, and a long list.

Article

Calico Cat Names, With the Stories Behind Them

Maryland's state cat, Japan's mi-ke and the maneki-neko, the tortitude study read properly, four real famous calicos, and names with their origins. Torties included.

Article

Boy Cat Names: What Owners Actually Choose, and Where Each Name Comes From

Milo, Leo, Charlie, Loki, Max and Simba rank in every country's 2025 top ten. The datasets behind the lists, what moved this year, the origin of every top name, and 250 more.

Article

Grey Cat Names, and Why Every Registry Calls Them Blue

No cat registry has a color called grey. They all say blue, the genetics explain why, and telling solid from smoke changes which name suits your cat.

Article

Black Cat Names, With the Stories Behind Them

Bad luck in America, good luck in Britain and Japan. The superstition splits by country, the adoption research contradicts it, and every name has an origin.

Article

How Many Kittens Can a Cat Have? The Real Numbers, With Their Sources

About four per litter, measured across 40,000 kittens. The biggest litter on record was 19. And no, one cat does not become 420,000 in seven years: here is where that number came from.

Article

How Do Cats Mate? The Scream, the Trigger, and the Litter With Three Fathers

Cats do not ovulate until they mate, which explains the scream, the repeat performances, and why one litter can have several fathers. The studies, with their numbers.

Article

How Many Toes Do Cats Have? The Answer, and the Exceptions

A cat has 18 toes, five in front and four behind. Here is the gene behind the cats born with more, why registries disagree, and the record that changed in 2026.

Article

Kitten Insurance: The Weeks That Decide Everything

When cover can start, why an empty medical file is the whole value, what the free-weeks gift policies really are, and the waiting periods to plan around.

Article

Cat Insurance for Older Cats: The Two Ages That Matter

When insurers call a cat "older", what happens to the premium, the real enrollment cutoffs by product, and why switching late is the costly move.

Article

Cat Insurance: How It Actually Works, and When It Is Worth It

The four policy types, real premium figures per country with their sources, the exclusions that surprise people, and the honest arithmetic behind "worth it".

Article

Bringing a Cat Home: The First Days, Honestly

One room, no visitors, and hiding is normal. The famous three-day rule turns out to have nothing behind it, and here is what does.

Article

Adopting a Cat: What It Costs, and What Actually Happens

The fee is less than the neutering, vaccination and microchipping already done to the cat. Here are the real figures, the process, and the law, per country.

Havana Brown guide

Havana Brown Price: The Market Where the Registry Counts One Cattery

Havana Brown prices, honestly: CFA's directory lists exactly one US cattery, Canada holds the only current dated breeder price (CA$2,200-2,350), and the UK quotes ranges over zero listings.

Sokoke guide

Sokoke Cat Price: The Rarest Market We Have Ever Tried to Price

Sokoke cat price, honestly: no confirmed live kitten price exists in the US, UK, Canada or Australia, and this page shows each market's own evidence, plus the two fake-price traps.

British Shorthair guide

British Longhair Price: What the Longhair Actually Costs, Market by Market

British Longhair prices from named catteries: the US $2,200-3,500 envelope, the UK's under-£1,000 reality, Canada's CA$2,800-5,000, and the longhair premium three breeders state themselves.

British Shorthair guide

British Longhair Colors: The Six Families, As the Registry Actually Files Them

Every British Longhair color, organized the way the registry actually files them: six GCCF families, eleven named Self varieties, the golden and silver tipped split, and the smokes.

LaPerm guide

LaPerm Price: What the Curly Cat Costs, and Where Prices Actually Exist

LaPerm prices without the filler: the UK's £400-1,000 range with a live £900 listing, the single US figure that exists, and the templated fake prices we caught and named.

American Wirehair guide

American Wirehair Price: What the Rarest CFA Breed Actually Costs

American Wirehair prices, told straight: a $800-1,200 US convergence with almost no live listings behind it, a UK of two rehomings, one Canadian litter, and a walled Australia.

Australian Mist guide

Australian Mist Price: The Breed Where Australia Is the Only Market With Numbers

Australian Mist prices, honestly mapped: two live named Australian figures (A$1,500-1,700), a UK club list gone stale, a US market of one broker, and a truly closed Canada.

American Bobtail guide

American Bobtail Price: What Kittens Actually Cost, Market by Market

American Bobtail prices from live sources: the US $100-250 marketplace floor beside $800-3,000 catteries, the UK's single editorial range, and Canada's one dated listing.

Highland Fold guide

Highland Fold Kittens for Sale: Prices in a Market That Rarely Files Them Separately

Highland Fold kittens for sale, priced honestly: the US $799-2,800 single source, the UK's £350-895 across three marketplaces, and how to search a market that rarely files the longhair.

Kurilian Bobtail guide

Kurilian Bobtail Price: The Smallest Seller Pool We Have Ever Mapped

Real Kurilian Bobtail prices: a 13-listing Michigan seller history from $450 to $1,700, a $2,550 broker, the UK's £500-2,500 range, and Australia's thoroughly confirmed zero.

Peterbald guide

Peterbald Price: The Breed That Prices Its Coat by the Class

Real Peterbald prices tier by COAT TYPE: the US $1,700-4,000 band, a Canadian cattery's naked-to-full-coat ladder in print, and UK live listings running BELOW the evergreen range.

Pixie-bob guide

Pixie-bob Price: Where Extra Toes Cost Extra Money

Real Pixie-bob prices: the polydactyl-vs-straight-toed split from a named cattery ($2,300-4,000 vs $1,200-2,300), the show-quality ladder, the UK's thin market, Canada's confirmed zero.

Singapura guide

Singapura Price: The Rarest Buy on This Site, Priced Honestly

Real Singapura prices: two named US catteries at $2,775 and $4,000 with multi-year waitlists, the UK's one live listing at £1,450, Australia's only breeder, and Canada's zero.

Chausie guide

Chausie Price: A Generation Ladder, a Dedicated Rescue, and One Empty Continent

Real Chausie prices by generation: F1 from $8,000 to F5 near $2,000, the breed's own dedicated rescue at $150, the UK's single-domain market, and why Australia has no price at all.

Chausie guide

Chausie Colors: The Smallest Palette in the Hybrid World, On Purpose

The Chausie's three TICA colors, the black grizzled ticked tabby no other domestic breed carries, the white-locket disqualification, and why color matters less here than anywhere.

Nebelung guide

Nebelung Price: What Live Listings Say, and What the Guides Repeat

Real Nebelung prices: a live US sample at $75-1,000 against the guides' $600-1,200, the UK's one TICA-registered litter at £800, and the crossbreed listings to read past.

Khao Manee guide

Khao Manee Price: What the Diamond Eye Cat Really Costs

Real Khao Manee prices: two named US catteries tier by eye color ($1,000-1,700 standard, $2,000-2,300 odd-eyed), the UK's live-vs-evergreen gap, and the $7,000-11,000 echo debunked.

American Curl guide

American Curl Price: Two Real Rate Cards, and the Traps in Three Markets

Real American Curl prices: two named US rate cards ($1,200-2,500), the straight-ear kitten priced the same, the UK's four listings read one by one, and Canada's cross trap.

Japanese Bobtail guide

Japanese Bobtail Price: Four Real Cattery Ladders, and Two Empty Markets

Real Japanese Bobtail prices from four named US cattery ladders ($800-2,500), the shorthair/longhair split, the mi-ke and odd-eye premiums, and why Canada and Australia show none.

Somali guide

Somali Cat Colors: The Palette That Is Exactly the Abyssinian's, on Purpose

Somali cat colors across five registries: the palette is numerically identical to the Abyssinian's at every one, four registries say so themselves, and Sorrel and Cinnamon are the same coat.

Somali guide

Somali Cat Price: What Kittens Cost, and Where the Breeders Actually Are

Real Somali cat prices: the US $1,600-2,500 cluster from named catteries with a $5,300 ceiling explained, the UK's £400-1,200 band, Canada's one listing, Australia's checked absence.

Lykoi guide

Lykoi Price: What the Werewolf Cat Costs, Market by Market

Real Lykoi prices: two named US catteries at $2,400-3,500, a Toronto seller's CA$2,499.99, the UK's zero live listings, and Australia's genuinely empty market, all sourced and dated.

Ragamuffin guide

RagaMuffin Price: What Kittens Cost, and Why Most Breeders Won't Say

Real RagaMuffin prices: one US cattery's live color-tracked ladder from $1,000 to $4,000, a 12-listing market read, the UK's two listings, and a caught price fabrication.

Toyger guide

Toyger Price: What Kittens Really Cost, and Where the Breeders Are

Real Toyger prices: two named US catteries from $1,500, the same two kittens at double on a reseller marketplace, UK live listings, Canada's one source, Australia's A$3,000 anchor.

Selkirk Rex guide

Selkirk Rex for Sale: Prices, Breeders, and the Genotype Ladder

Real Selkirk Rex prices: the US cattery pricing by curl GENOTYPE, the UK club that publishes none by stated policy, Quebec's two catteries, and Australia's blocked market.

Tonkinese guide

Tonkinese Kittens for Sale: Prices, Breeders, and One Marketplace Warning

Tonkinese prices with names and dates: the US $2,200 flat cattery, the UK's Tonkdoll warning, Australia's two figures, and Canada's nine-doors-checked zero. Plus the paperwork.

Tonkinese guide

Tonkinese Cat Colors: Three Patterns, Five Vocabularies, One Gene Pair

The Tonkinese coat explained: three patterns (mink, pointed, solid) that five registries call five different things, the cb/cs genetics with a real $47 DNA test, and eyes graded by pattern.

Birman guide

Birman Cat Colors: The Gloves Come First, Then the Twenty Points

The Birman's white gloves are a judged, gene-specific trait scored differently by five registries (20 of 100 points at two of them). The gloves' own genetics, then the twenty point colors.

Birman guide

Birman Kittens for Sale: Prices, Breeders, and the Honest Gaps

Real Birman prices: US catteries clustering $2,200-2,500 above the guides' bands, the UK's rich-clubs-zero-prices pattern, Australia's one-of-eleven listings, and Canada's checked absence.

Burmilla guide

Burmilla Kittens for Sale: A Rare Market, Counted and Dated

Burmilla prices with dates: two US catteries, the UK's single live listing at £850, Canada's five-ways-confirmed zero, and Australia's two figures within $50. A thin market, honestly.

Manx guide

Cymric: The Longhaired Manx, and Five Registries That Disagree About It

The Cymric is the longhaired Manx, and whether it is a real breed depends on the registry: five bodies, five answers, mapped with dates. Plus the coat, the care and the same tail genetics.

Manx guide

Manx Cat Price, Kittens for Sale and Breeders: Four Markets, Counted

Real Manx prices: a live US sample at $195-850, the UK's two marketplaces, Canada's one rate card with the rumpy-vs-tailed split, and why breeders themselves rarely publish a number.

Ocicat guide

Ocicat Price and Breeders: What Four Markets Actually Charge

Ocicat prices from named catteries: $700 to $1,700 across four US states, Britain's waiting-list market, Canada's one cattery at CA$2,500, and Australia's two named breeders.

Ocicat guide

Ocicat vs Ocelot: The Wild Lookalike With Zero Wild DNA

Yes, there is a domestic cat that looks like an ocelot: the Ocicat, with no wild ancestry at all. And the reason no ocelot hybrid has ever existed is a chromosome count.

Ocicat guide

Ocicat Colors: Twelve Coats, One Spotted Rule, and a British Surprise

The Ocicat's twelve colors, the four-way naming split between registries, why red and cream are banned five ways, and the UK's surprise: the classic-tabby Ocicat is a separate breed.

Turkish Van guide

Van Cats in Turkey: The Real Story of the Lake Van Cats

The white, odd-eyed Van cats of Lake Van are a protected Turkish landrace with a university conservation center, counted in the hundreds, and they are not the pedigree breed sold abroad.

Turkish Van guide

Turkish Van Price: A Thin Market, Counted Honestly

The Turkish Van market is thin enough to itemise: two live US listings, five UK listings at £150-500, three Canadian ads and zero Australian listings. Every figure named and dated.

Snowshoe guide

Snowshoe Cat Price: Four Markets, Honestly Counted

Real Snowshoe prices with named sources: two US catteries with different structures, the UK's twice-confirmed £950, why Canada has no price at all, and Australia's four breeders.

Snowshoe guide

Snowshoe Cat Colors: The Pattern That Nearly Killed the Breed

The Snowshoe's colors are the easy part: four Siamese points. The white pattern is the story: why it nearly ended the breed in the 1970s, and why it still cannot be bred to a fixed target.

Burmese guide

Burmese Kittens for Sale: What Four Markets Actually Charge

What a Burmese kitten costs, sourced: US tiers from $600 pet-quality to $2,500 show, the UK's live-vs-evergreen gap, Canada's one named cattery, and Australia's ask-the-breeder market.

Burmese guide

Burmese Cat Colors: Four in America, Ten in Britain, Twenty in Australia

The Burmese color count depends on the registry: CFA's American standard allows four, GCCF ten, Australia's ACF up to twenty. The counts, the two vocabularies, and the black-cat question.

Balinese guide

Balinese Cat Price: What the Market Actually Charges, Market by Market

What a Balinese kitten actually costs: named US catteries from $400 to $2,500, the UK's one operator with three disagreeing figures, Canada's shared-list pattern, and Australia's honest gap.

Balinese guide

The Javanese Cat: One Name, Two Entirely Different Cats

The Javanese is two different cats depending on the registry: CFA's extended-color Balinese division, or the Oriental Longhair under another name. Which is which, precisely.

Balinese guide

Balinese Cat Colors: The Four Classics, and Five Registries That Count Differently

The Balinese color chart, honestly: the four classic points, the extended colors, and five registries giving three genuinely different answers to how many colors there are.

Chartreux guide

Chartreux Cat Price: The Two Real Figures (and the Ranges That Surveyed Nobody)

The Chartreux market, honestly: one published US cattery price, the UK club's waiting-list figure, and two markets that publish nothing at all.

Korat guide

Korat Cat Price: The Breed That Barely Has a Market

The Korat market measured honestly: US and Canadian breeders who withhold every price, one live UK figure, one Australian pre-order, and the thinnest breeder census we have ever counted.

Exotic Shorthair guide

Exotic Shorthair Kittens for Sale: What They Cost in Four Markets

What an Exotic Shorthair costs in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, from named catteries and full marketplace samples, plus the one UK paperwork rule every buyer should know.

Cornish Rex guide

Cornish Rex Kittens for Sale: What They Cost in Four Markets

What a Cornish Rex actually costs in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, from named catteries and live listings: flat prices, tiered prices, and one market that publishes none at all.

Cornish Rex guide

Cornish Rex Colors: All of Them (and the Black Rarity Myth, Counted)

Every registry accepts every Cornish Rex color (one odd exception aside). We counted CFA's own show record to test the "black is rare" claim, and it fell over.

Bombay guide

Bombay Cat Price: You Are Paying for the Pedigree

$500-2,000 pet-quality in the US, £50-250 on live UK listings, and one Australian source we label as exactly that. Plus the two-source buyer checklist. Read August 2026.

Russian Blue guide

Russian Blue Colors: One Color, Unless Your Registry Says Three

Blue only in America and Canada; Russian Black and Russian White at full championship in Britain since 2013 and in Australia. Who recognizes what, named registry by registry.

Russian Blue guide

Russian Blue Price: What the Named Sellers Publish

US catteries run flat $2,500-4,000 with an itemised $4,700 ceiling, UK registered listings sit £900-1,750, and two named catteries decline to price at all. Read August 2026.

Siamese guide

Siamese Cat Price: What the Sellers Publish, Market by Market

US catteries run flat $1,000-3,500, UK registered listings cluster £500-1,300, Canada spreads $450-1,600, and Australia publishes exactly one price. Read August 2026.

Siamese guide

Tortie Point Siamese: Two Colors Fighting Over Four Paws

Red and cream broken through the points, almost always female, and registered three different ways depending on the registry. The tortie point, sourced.

Siamese guide

Lynx Point Siamese: The Tabby Who Joined the Aristocracy

Tabby-striped points, an M on the forehead, and two official names: Lynx Point in TICA, CFA and Canada, Tabby Point in the UK's GCCF and Australia's ACF. The whole file, by registry.

Siamese guide

Red Point Siamese: The Flame Point With Two Sets of Papers

Red-gold points on a warm white body, and a paperwork puzzle: three registries call this cat a Siamese, two register the identical animal as a different breed.

Siamese guide

Lilac Point Siamese: Frost With a Pink Cast

Frosty grey points with a pinkish tone on a glacial white body, lavender-pink nose leather: the double-dilute color, defined identically by five registries.

Siamese guide

Chocolate Point Siamese: Warmer Than Seal, Paler Than It Looks

Warm milk-chocolate points on an unshaded ivory body, cinnamon-pink nose leather: the classic-four color buyers mistake for seal, and how the standards separate the two.

Siamese guide

Blue Point Siamese: The Cool One

Deep blue points on a bluish-white body, slate nose leather, blue eyes by rule: the dilute of seal, defined the same way by all five registries.

Siamese guide

Seal Point Siamese: The Color the Breed Arrived In

Deep seal-brown points on a warm cream body: the color the 1871 Crystal Palace cats wore, and the one definition all five registries still agree on, word for word close.

Devon Rex guide

Devon Rex Breeders: One Breed, Five Rulebooks

Five registries, five different outcross policies, one reasoned ban, and the two questions that sort Devon Rex breeders: the COLQ test and blood typing.

Devon Rex guide

Devon Rex Price: What the Sellers Actually Publish

US named catteries cluster $2,700-3,700 flat, the UK's live listings beat the guide figures, Canada publishes deposits but never totals, and Australia splits $1,450 against $2,800.

Devon Rex guide

Black Devon Rex: The "Rare" Color That Keeps Winning Shows

The internet sells black-and-white Devon Rex as rare. CFA's own show results say otherwise, eight seasons running: the receipts, and the breed's dark-coated founder.

Devon Rex guide

Devon Rex Colors: The Registries Wrote a Blank Cheque

TICA says all, CFA says any genetically possible color, GCCF scores color at zero points. Why the Devon Rex palette is wide open, and what is actually judged instead.

Persian guide

Himalayan Cat Colors: The Same Cat, Counted Four Ways

Every registry names the same core eight points, then CFA counts 16, GCCF 20 and Canada's registry about 66. The palette, the blue-eye rule, and why the counts differ.

Persian guide

Himalayan Kittens for Sale: What the Listings Actually Say

Live marketplace samples and named catteries, read August 2026: US $1,000-4,500, UK £250-1,800 (mostly crosses), Canada's same-litter split, and Australia's documented absence.

Persian guide

Persian Cat History: What the Receipts Actually Show

The 1620s import story told at its real confidence level, the Garfield question answered honestly, Blofeld's disputed cat, and the record-book Persians that were actually Himalayan crosses.

Persian guide

Persian Cat Breeders: One Question Sorts Them All

Which registries force the kidney test, which just suggest it, the popularity numbers three bodies disagree on, and the Canadian pedigree rule nobody explains.

Persian guide

Blue Persian Cat: The Color That Won the First Shows

The dilute that ruled the first cat shows: blue Persians headlined Westminster in 1899 and America's first champions in 1900-1902. The gene, the look, the history.

Persian guide

Black Persian Cat: Density on Display

Jet black on the fancy's biggest coat, copper eyes by rule, and the registry's own note that dense colors wear a silkier, tougher coat. The whole file.

Persian guide

White Persian Cat: The Classic, With Its Paperwork

The classic white Persian comes with a three-way eye system and a deafness file that measured LOWER than its long-haired peers. The honest numbers, and the test that answers.

Persian guide

Persian Cat Colors: The Empire and Its Seven Provinces

CFA files the fancy's biggest palette in seven divisions, GCCF in five groups, TICA says all: the whole system, the eye-color rules, and the deafness numbers that surprised us.

Persian guide

Persian Cat Price: What Five Named Catteries Actually Charge

$1,200 to $3,500 pet-tier from named US catteries, a 72-listing UK sample, a genuine Canadian overlap, an unexplained Australian gap, and the fake CFA price quote we caught.

Oriental Shorthair guide

Oriental Shorthair Breeders: Read the Registry Before the Website

How each registry files this breed (and its longhaired twin), the Havana trap, the UK's falling registration numbers, and how to adopt one instead.

Oriental Shorthair guide

Oriental Shorthair Price: A Market of Flat Fees and Copied Tables

Four named US catteries, a UK sample against the marketplace's own wider claim, a mostly-Quebec Canadian picture, and the syndicated cost table two sites share word for word.

Oriental Shorthair guide

Oriental Shorthair Colors: We Traced the Number Everyone Repeats

TICA counts 281, CFA says 150 and 600 on the same page, GCCF computes 816, and the famous "over 300" traces to a retired document. The real palette, ebony first.

Munchkin guide

Munchkin Kittens for Sale: A Market That Needs Its Warnings First

$900 flat at one named cattery, $3,000+ at another, a marketplace-only picture in the UK and Canada, no reliable Australian price at all, and a search space full of template sites.

Munchkin guide

Munchkin Cat Colors: The Only Breed Where "All" Means All

TICA's standard says COLORS: All, with no exclusion list, the only breed in our research where that is true. The calico favorite, the longhair axis, and why two registries still say no.

Norwegian Forest Cat guide

Norwegian Forest Cat Colors: The Breed That Owns a Color

The only breed on earth with amber, a gene that turns brown kittens honey-gold. Plus the black and orange classics, and what each registry actually excludes.

Norwegian Forest Cat guide

Norwegian Forest Cat for Sale: What the Market Actually Publishes

$1,400-2,500 from named US catteries, a UK marketplace where purebred and cross are hard to tell apart, and the single-source truth in Canada and Australia.

Savannah guide

Savannah Cat Breeders: How to Verify Before You Believe

TICA is the home registry and the F-numbers on every cattery page are not TICA's words. How to verify a Savannah breeder in each market, and what "registered" does and does not mean.

Savannah guide

Savannah Cat Price: One Breed, One Ladder, Ten-to-One Spread

From $12,000 F1s to $1,200 SBTs at the same cattery: named rate cards in three markets, the laws that shape them, and why Australia has no price at all.

Savannah guide

Savannah Cat Colors: Four Colors, One Pattern, No Exceptions

Brown spotted, silver spotted, black and black smoke: the whole registry palette, why rosettes are a fault here, and the marbled claim a cattery gets wrong.

Sphynx guide

Sphynx Cat for Sale: What the Naked Cat Actually Costs

Named catteries in four countries, live marketplace samples, the eye-color premium, why an Elf costs more than a Sphynx, and what a cheap listing usually omits.

Sphynx guide

Black Sphynx Cat: What the Most-Searched Sphynx Color Actually Is

What a black Sphynx actually is: dark pigmented skin, a color no registry restricts or judges, a sun tan that is really a color shift, and the seal naming twist.

Sphynx guide

Sphynx Cat Colors: Every Color Allowed, None of Them Judged

Every color is allowed and none is judged: the registries' own words. How color reads on bare skin, why DNA testing beats eyeballing, and where black fits.

Egyptian Mau guide

Egyptian Mau Colors: Three Showable, Two Inevitable

Silver, bronze and smoke in the show ring, and the black and blue kittens genetics guarantees forever. The registry's own table explains why.

Egyptian Mau guide

Egyptian Mau for Sale: What Rarity Actually Costs

Named catteries from $600 to $2,800, silver's consistent premium, the flat breeding-rights pattern, and the registry's own words about the waiting list.

Egyptian Mau guide

Egyptian Mau Breeders and Registries: A Rare Breed With One Open Door

A closed breed with one guarded door still open to Egypt's own street cats, a registry that admits there are not enough breeders, and where the real ones are.

Turkish Angora guide

Turkish Angora Price: One Question Decides Almost Everything

Live market reads from four countries, why £50 "Turkish Angoras" exist alongside £2,000 ones, and the registry facts UK buyers deserve.

Turkish Angora guide

Turkish Angora Colors: The Famous White Is Just the Beginning

The white cat everyone pictures is one option among roughly forty. The full registry palette, the five eye-color classes, and the black question answered.

Turkish Angora guide

White Turkish Angora: One Gene, Graded Risks, Honest Numbers

The famous white coat is one gene, and the deafness risk it carries is graded by eye color, not binary. Every number here has its population attached.

Abyssinian guide

Abyssinian Cats for Sale: What They Cost Where You Actually Live

Live marketplace reads and cattery cards from the US, UK, Canada and Australia, plus the pattern nobody mentions: nine out of nine breeder websites publish no price.

Abyssinian guide

Abyssinian Cat Colors: One Coat, Five Dictionaries

Ruddy, Usual and Tawny are the same coat. The full five-registry palette map, the ticked-coat gene story, and why GCCF counts 28 colors where CFA counts 4.

American Shorthair guide

Black American Shorthair: Fully Official, Frequently Confused

Fully recognized at every registry that prints a class list, never rare, never a Bombay. The exact standard wording, the gold-eye rule, and the buying reality.

American Shorthair guide

American Shorthair Breeders and Registries: Where the Breed Actually Lives

A closed breed that seven other breeds borrow from, a UK gap with a polite official reason, and where real breeders actually are in all four markets.

American Shorthair guide

Silver Tabby American Shorthair: How One Coat Became a Breed's Face

The silver classic tabby is the American Shorthair's show identity. The gene that builds it, the registry that actually prints the name, and the eye rule to check.

American Shorthair guide

American Shorthair Price: The Real Cards, and the Trap Around Them

Real rate cards from four named US catteries, why the $75 listings are not this breed, and the honest answer for UK, Canadian and Australian buyers.

American Shorthair guide

American Shorthair Colors: More Than 100, Whatever the Internet Says

Every color family with its registry class named, the wrong "80" figure the whole internet copies, and the golden family only Canada shows.

Siberian guide

Siberian Cat Colors: A Palette With Its Genes Named

Every Siberian color explained by its actual gene, including sunshine, the golden mechanism this breed owns, and the registry disagreements nobody else maps.

Siberian guide

Siberian Cat Price: What Named Breeders Actually Charge

Real published prices from named catteries in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, including the breed's strangest pricing pattern: kittens priced by tested allergen level.

Scottish Fold guide

Scottish Fold Colors: One of the Cat Fancy's Rare Open Palettes

Four registries independently allow the Scottish Fold in every genetically possible color and pattern, a rarity among purebreds. The full map, including Australia's minks.

Scottish Fold guide

Scottish Fold Price: What Sellers Charge, Market by Market

What Scottish Fold kittens cost from named US catteries and live UK, Canadian and Australian listings, why folded ears carry a premium, and what that premium actually buys.

Bengal guide

Bengal Cat History: Two Programs, One Breed, Thirty Years of Paperwork

The Bengal began as a 1963 backyard cross and a leukemia-research program, spent years named Leopardette, and took 30 years to win over every registry. The dated, cited story.

Bengal guide

Bengal Cat Breeders: What "Registered" Buys You, Market by Market

What "registered" means for a Bengal in each market, the three tests every registry names, TICA's and CFA's own scam checklists, and the questions that sort breeders fast.

Bengal guide

Bengal Cat Price: What Named Sellers Charge, Market by Market

What Bengal kittens cost at named catteries in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, why the pet-or-breeder tier moves the price more than color, and the red flags.

Bengal guide

Blue Bengal Cat: Leopard Print in Steel Grey

The blue Bengal's steel-grey coat comes from one ancient dilution mutation. Where each registry stands on it in 2026, from preliminary UK status to full Canadian recognition.

Bengal guide

Marble Bengal Cat: Swirls Where the Spots Should Be

The marble Bengal wears flowing swirls instead of rosettes, and the standards judge it by one rule: the less it looks like an ordinary tabby, the better. Genetics and prices included.

Bengal guide

Black Bengal Cat: What "Melanistic" Actually Buys You

Black Bengals exist, and the registries file the melanistic coat as their odd one out: never showable, always registrable. Ghost markings, genetics and honest prices.

Bengal guide

Snow Bengal Cat: Three Cats Wearing One Name

A snow Bengal is one of three distinct genotypes, and the eye color tells you which: blue for lynx, aqua for mink, gold or green for sepia. The full field guide, from the standards.

Bengal guide

Silver Bengal Cat: The Leopard Print in Black and White

The silver Bengal's pewter shine comes from a gene that suppresses warm pigment. What the registries say, what real silver kittens sold for, and the test that does not exist.

Bengal guide

Charcoal Bengal Cat: The Color With Its Own Published Genotype

The charcoal Bengal's dark mask and cape come from a documented pairing of one leopard cat gene and one domestic gene, and the registries disagree about what to do with it.

Bengal guide

Bengal Cat Colors: One Palette, Five Registries, Real Differences

Every Bengal color and pattern, registry by registry: brown, snow, silver, charcoal, blue and melanistic, and why the same coat can be a champion in one country and unlisted in another.

British Shorthair guide

British Shorthair Breeders: What "Registered" Buys You, Market by Market

A closed breed almost everywhere: what "registered" means for a British Shorthair in each market, the pointed-cat trap for US buyers, and the tests to ask for.

British Shorthair guide

British Shorthair Price: What Named Sellers Charge, Market by Market

What British Shorthair kittens actually cost in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, from named catteries and live marketplaces, plus the price-guide-website trap to step around.

British Shorthair guide

Tabby British Shorthair: The Three Patterns the Standard Actually Names

The British Shorthair's standard names three tabby patterns: Classic, Mackerel and Spotted. What each looks like, how the silver tabby gets its shine, and the gene behind all of it.

British Shorthair guide

White British Shorthair: Beautiful, Official, and the One Color With a Test

The white British Shorthair comes in three official eye colors, and the UK registry requires a hearing certificate before one can breed. Here is why, told straight.

British Shorthair guide

Golden and Silver British Shorthairs: One Pattern Wearing Two Shades

Golden and silver shaded British Shorthairs are two halves of one registry family, Tipped. The mechanism, the "DNA-verified silver" trap, and what the premium actually costs.

British Shorthair guide

British Blue Cat: Same Breed, Its Own Original Name

A British Blue IS a British Shorthair: the breed's own original name, kept alive by its most popular coat. The history, the color, and the answers to what British Blue searchers actually ask.

British Shorthair guide

British Shorthair Colors: How the Registries Actually Sort Them

All the British Shorthair colors as the registries actually organize them: five GCCF families, the colors CFA only just accepted, and the pointed cats one registry refuses.

Ragdoll guide

Finding a Ragdoll Breeder: The Checks That Actually Protect You

The registry checklists that actually protect you, the UK's dated HCM-testing mandate, what "registered" means in each country, and the 6-to-8-week red flag.

Ragdoll guide

Ragdoll Cat Price: What Buyers Actually Paid For in August 2026

What Ragdoll kittens actually cost in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, from named catteries and live marketplace samples, with deposits, bundles and the under-$2,000 red flag.

Ragdoll guide

Cream Ragdoll: The Whisper Version of Orange

What a cream point Ragdoll is, how dilution turns red into cream, how to tell one from a pale flame point, and what the standards actually require.

Ragdoll guide

Seal Point Ragdoll: The Original Recipe

What seal point means, why the darkest Ragdolls read black in photos but never are, and the one registry that recognizes a genuinely solid black Ragdoll-type cat.

Ragdoll guide

Blue Ragdoll: One Word, Two Questions

What a blue point Ragdoll is, why it is really a softened seal, and the answer to the question everyone asks: do all Ragdolls have blue eyes?

Ragdoll guide

Lilac Ragdoll: The Palest of the Four

What a lilac Ragdoll actually looks like ("frosty grey with pinkish tinge" per the standard), how dilution builds it from chocolate, and the honest word on rarity pricing.

Ragdoll guide

Chocolate Ragdoll: The Color Everyone Calls Brown

Searching for a brown Ragdoll? No registry has one. How to tell chocolate from a dark seal, and why the UK once rebuilt this color with Siamese and Persian outcrosses.

Ragdoll guide

Flame Point Ragdoll: The Orange One With Two Names

The orange Ragdoll explained: why registries write red, not flame, why most flame points are boys, and what the orange gene actually does.

Ragdoll guide

Bicolor Ragdoll: One Gene, a White V, and a Sliding Scale

What makes a Ragdoll bicolor, how the same gene runs from a standard bicolour to an almost all-white cat, and why only one registry calls that extreme "Van".

Ragdoll guide

Ragdoll Colors and Patterns: The Real List, and Where Registries Disagree

All six Ragdoll point colors, the three patterns, and where the five registries genuinely disagree: minks, Cherubim, Van, and Australia's silver-and-smoke extension.

Maine Coon guide

Tuxedo Maine Coon: Black Tie, Twenty Toes of Fluff

Yes, tuxedo Maine Coons exist: what the registries call the pattern, the minimum-white rules that make it showable, and what the coat costs.

Maine Coon guide

Cream Maine Coon: Red, Whispered

What makes a cream Maine Coon, how cream relates to red and blue, why two orange parents can throw cream kittens, and what the coat costs.

Maine Coon guide

Silver Maine Coon: Frost Over the Tiger

What makes a silver Maine Coon, how silver differs from smoke, the tarnish fault that makes clean silvers rare on show benches, and real prices.

Maine Coon guide

Tabby Maine Coon: The Coat Everyone Pictures

Why the brown tabby IS the classic Maine Coon, classic versus mackerel patterns, the ticked-tabby registry dispute, and what tabbies cost.

Maine Coon guide

Maine Coon History: From Ship Cats to State Cat

Where Maine Coons really come from: the documented timeline from 1861 to CFA's number one breed, the myths told honestly, and the 1985 law that made it Maine's state cat.

Maine Coon guide

Maine Coon Breeders: How to Find One Worth Your Trust

What "registered" actually proves, the registries per country, the questions a good Maine Coon breeder answers without blinking, and what the law requires of breeders where you live.

Maine Coon guide

Maine Coon Price: Four Countries, Real Numbers, No Averages

Real August 2026 Maine Coon prices from named catteries and live listings in four countries, what makes the price climb, the cheaper doors in, and what no registry will ever tell you.

Maine Coon guide

Black Smoke Maine Coon: Midnight Over Silver

What makes a black smoke Maine Coon, how smoke differs from solid black and silver, why kittens declare themselves late, and what breeders charge.

Maine Coon guide

Tortie Maine Coon: Black and Red, Woven Together

What a tortoiseshell Maine Coon actually is, how torties differ from calicos and torbies, the blue-cream dilute, and what breeders charge for them.

Maine Coon guide

Calico Maine Coon: Three Colors, One Enormous Cat

What makes a calico Maine Coon, how the registries define the patches, dilute and smoke versions, why males are vanishingly rare, and what they cost.

Maine Coon guide

Orange (Ginger) Maine Coon: Officially Red, Universally Adored

Why your orange Maine Coon is officially red, what ginger means in the UK, the cream dilute, why most gingers are boys, and two famous ones.

Maine Coon guide

White Maine Coon: A Coat That Keeps a Secret

Why a white Maine Coon is genetically a masked cat, the four white eye-color classes, what the UK registry requires before breeding one, and prices.

Maine Coon guide

Black Maine Coon: The Panther Look, Held to a Standard

What makes a true solid black Maine Coon, why the standards call it a hard coat to keep perfect, black and white bicolors, and real kitten prices.

Maine Coon guide

Blue Maine Coon: Yes, That Gray Cat Is Officially "Blue"

Why registries call a gray Maine Coon blue, how the dilute coat works, what blue smoke and blue silver mean, and what these cats actually sell for.

Maine Coon guide

Maine Coon Colors: The Whole Palette, Straight from the Standards

Every Maine Coon color the five major registries actually recognize, the three they all exclude, eye-color rules, and what blue-eyed buyers should ask about.

Cat news

Owners Dreaded Bringing Their Cat Indoors. Two Thirds Said It Was Easier Than They Feared.

Eighty-seven owners who moved an outdoor cat to indoor living were asked how it went. Most expected a battle. Half the cats had settled within weeks, and half the owners had made no preparations at all.

Cat news

Researchers Read 1,100 Comments Under Videos of Cats Who Were Not Playing

Eleven videos captioned as play, all showing a cat that had run out of patience. Between 75 and 93 percent of the comments under each one were delighted. The study is really about how badly all of us read a cat.

Cat news

Your Cat Carries a Chemical Business Card, and It Is Made in the Kidneys

Cats leave a scent that says which cat left it, and it holds for at least a day. Japanese researchers have found where it comes from: fat droplets in the kidney that nobody could explain for over a century.

Cat news

She Went Out Through the Cat Flap. Five Months Later She Turned Up Fifteen Miles Away, in a Furniture Shop.

Cooper left a house in Gargrave in the spring. In August she walked into a shop in Keighley, fifteen miles across the Yorkshire hills. Nobody can explain the middle part.

Cat news

One Lot of Frozen Cat Food Was Just Recalled. Here Is the Code to Check.

Northwest Naturals pulled 53 cases of its Frozen Chicken Recipe over possible salmonella and listeria. One lot code, one best-by date, and a bag you can check in about ten seconds.

Cat news

Did You Know? Your Cat Cannot Taste Sweet. The Gene for It Is Broken, and Has Been for Ages

A 2005 study found that the cat's sweet-taste receptor gene is a pseudogene: a 247-letter chunk missing and two stop signs in the middle. Tigers and cheetahs carry the same break.

Cat news

Did You Know? The Oldest Cat on Record Lived to 38, in a House in Austin, Texas

Creme Puff was born in August 1967 and died in August 2005, three days past her 38th birthday. No cat has been documented living longer. Here is what the record actually says, and what it does not.