Short Hair Tabby Shorthair Cat Breeds
The british shorthair has a broad chest muscular neck strong jaws and a well developed muzzle.
Short hair tabby shorthair cat breeds. Short haired cats require little in the way of grooming and tend to require less maintenance overall than long haired cats. Classic spotted mackerel ticked. Tabby shorthair has a short coat that often becomes thicker during winters. Cats make purrfect pets.
Most of these cats have bright green or flaming copper colored eyes. Shorthair tabbies come in the same colors as tabby persians like red cream silver blue cameo cameo cream brown and blue cream. There are basically four tabby patterns which are as follows. Rough date of origin.
Shorthair cat breeds abyssinian. To read the behaviour of the british shorthair click here. Comes in brown tabby silver tabby and orange tabby with the range of tabby patterns. Heavily muscled with heavy boning they have rounded thick appearance.
American wirehair cat the. American shorthair cat the american shorthair cat is known for its hunting ability. Maine coons can be found in classic tabby stripped or patched tabby pattern. These cats have a distinctive pattern like dots swirls or stripes.
The maine coon is one of the largest cat breeds and probably the most popular pedigree tabby cat. Abyssinian cat the abyssinian resembles the sacred cat of ancient egypt. The british shorthair is a medium sized to large cat and is a very powerful one. Since freely breeding domestic short haired cats form distinctive landraces in wide geographic areas they have been the basis of several recent formal breeds such as the european shorthair celtic shorthair and american shorthair.
Non pedigree cats can also compete and win at cat shows. The british shorthair tabby cat shares its temperament with other varieties of the british shorthair.