Japanese Bobtail

Japanese Bobtail ( and Japanese stubby tail cat ) is a Japanese cat breed that really stand out for its short tail and bunny-hopping gait. It is grown today in a long-haired (Japanese Bobtail Longhair ) and a short-haired version ( Japanese Bobtail Shorthair ). In country of Japan this breed Kazoku - neko means (家族 猫, to German " family cat " ), a rare, three cultivated form is (三毛 猫, to German "three- fur Cat" ) Mike - neko called.

Origin

The introduction of the breed Japanese Bobtail originally started with the beginning of the Edo period (1603-1867) at the Japanese imperial court, where it was first bred. Cats with docked tails were already previously assessed as gifts of the Chinese emperor to Japan, the Japanese court began then with the targeted breed an independent, stummelschwänzigen breed. Background were both in China and in Japan the imperial silk moth plantations that have been consistently plagued by rodents and birds and which the caterpillars fell in masses for the victims. For the silk industry the appropriate economic and material losses were a fiasco. Although there were domesticated cats especially the rodent assumptions, but their long rods destroyed the precious webs of silk moths. Therefore, they had already begun in China, cats to crop the tails. Finally, in Japan the first successful targeted selection of stummelschwänzigen cats. Japanese Bobtails are often confused with the entirely rods loose Manx cat. They differ from the dominant mutations which distinguish the races Kurilian Bobtail and Pixie - Bob. In Japan, three colored copies are particularly highly valued. By 1960, discovered American soldiers who were stationed in Japan, the Japanese Bobtail and were immediately intrigued. In 1968, Elizabeth Freret imported three copies for their breeding program in the United States. In 1976, the race " Japanese Bobtail " was officially recognized by the Cat Fanciers' Association.

Legends

A Japanese legend claims that the breed was created by an accident: A temple cat caught one night while sleeping with her ​​tail fire, ran through the city and so put countless houses on fire. Thereupon the Emperor is said to have ordered that all cats ' tails must be docked so that such a disaster does not repeat. On a female Japanese bobtail cat based the fictional character Hello Kitty, Pokémon " Meowth " and the lucky charm Maneki neko -.