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Tonkinese
The Tonkinese is a medium, muscular and socially intense breed developed from Burmese and Siamese ancestry. Its hallmark mink pattern produces intermediate…
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Toyger
The Toyger is a modern domestic breed selected for bold branching vertical stripes, circular facial markings, a long low body and a…
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Turkish Angora
The Turkish Angora is a fine-boned but muscular natural breed associated with Ankara, historically called Angora. It has a silky semi-long single…
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Turkish Van
The Turkish Van is a large, muscular, slow-maturing semi-longhair associated in breed history with the Lake Van region and developed as a…
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Turkish Vankedisi
Turkish Vankedisi is the name used by GCCF for the completely white counterpart within its Turkish Van breeding framework. It shares the…
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Ukrainian Levkoy
The Ukrainian Levkoy is an experimental breed developed in Ukraine by combining Donskoy-derived hairlessness with folded-ear ancestry related to the Scottish Fold.…
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Ussuri
Ussuri is a name applied to a rare patterned domestic-cat population reported from the Russian Far East. Descriptions usually show a strong,…
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York Chocolate
The York Chocolate was developed from chocolate and lilac longhaired farm cats in New York State beginning in the 1980s. Historical standards…
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