Cat types by fur Color

Cats are among the animals that like cleanliness. We often see these animals licking their fur. That is because the cat saliva or saliva it is a very powerful cleaning agent, but can also triggers allergies in some people. Cats usually sleep between 12 to 16 hours a day. This is one way to save energy cat.

Based on the color, the cat can be divided into several types of them as follows.
1. Calico: These cats have a white base color with black spots. In Japan, this pattern is often referred to as the Mi-Ke. Because genes controlling coat color in cats is located on chromosome gender, this colorful cat is female.




2. Tortoiseshell: Tortoise shell cat has a black base color with orange and white colors spread throughout the body. Black cat, light orange, dark orange and commonly referred to as Calimanco or Clouded Tiger.





3. Tabby: Cat with striped colors with various patterns. Classic pattern in cats is generally shaped dots or circles.





4. Bicolor (two-color cat): Often also called a Tuxedo cat or Jellicle cat, Black cat with a little white on the legs, abdomen, chest, and perhaps also on the face.

Cats

Cats are domestic animals that are kept by humans. They are thought to have lived and blend into the environment of human life since approximately 6,000 years BCE. It can be determined by finding the skeleton of a cat buried with humans on the island of Cyprus.

Cats have many roles in human life, such as a predator of various rodents which are the farmers’ problems. Even in a cartoon story, there is a picture of a cat who likes to chase rodents. Cats themselves are including carnivores with the Latin name Felis silvestris catus.

At the present time, cats are popular pets, and even some cat race has an official record of the lineage as kind Siamese cat, sphinx, and Persian. Cats with lineage officially recorded are generally cultured in the official pets.

Of the many cats in the world, estimated to be only about 1% is still having pure breeds and officially recorded. The rest is a descendant of cats that have experienced assimilation of different breeds.