Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Know All About Your Persian Chinchilla Before Owning One

By Cynthia Turner


When you see a cat which is majestic and impressive looking you should know that you are looking at a full-blooded Persian cat. These cats have well-built bodies and strong legs with a face which looks punched. They thrive on attention from you if you are a cat lover and also from people who do not like cats.

The Persian cats are again categorized into sub families because they are liable to have certain differences in their features. If you look minutely you will not only find that the color of their coats is dissimilar but there are other differences too. When it comes to Chinchilla breed it has certain individual characteristics that separate them from the rest.

In 1908 with the Chinchilla Cat Club established, the cats started being exported to the United States. To actually know and value a Chinchilla Persian cat you have to make sure its a pure-bred cat, and to distinguish whether it surely is a Chinchilla Persian cat or not is to observe the color of its coat since that is the basis on which Persian cats are categorized. The extent of colored hair can vary. For instance a Persian with a black coat, the color would be on only about 1/7th of the hair.

The Chinchilla cats appear as if they have a gleaming silver coat because they have an under coat which is pure white with black tips on the hair of the head, back, tail and flank. These cats also have white hair on their chin, chest, stomach and ear tuffs but the legs are occasionally dotted with black tips.

A most interesting feature that you will see in these cats are their black rimmed eyes which tend to give an expression of wearing eye makeup on them. You will also find that their nose and lips are outlined in black.

The coats of Silver Shaded cats have different color hair tips which give them a shadowy effect. You will see several attractive colors from blue to lilac to chocolate. When you consider both Silver Shaded and Chinchilla the former has more 'shadowy' coat. The coats have a wonderful mixture of colors giving it more shades than you can imagine.

Some cats have a multiple colored under coat which has marvelous result as far as their coat is concerned and are called Golden Shaded which look absolutely stunning to the eye. Another great breed is the Cameo Persian cat which has got some red tips on their coat.

All these cats are known for their beautiful dark rimmed eyes, nose and mouth, except for the Golden shaded whose eyes and nose is outlined in brown instead of black. The eye color of these cats is mainly supposed to be green or blue-green. This recognized characteristic in all Chinchilla, Golden Shaded, Silver Shaded and Cameo Persian cats helps to distinguish the pedigree because a pure-bred cats eye color will be either green or blue-green.




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