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Kurilian Bobtail
The Kurilian Bobtail is a medium sized to
large cat. The body is compact and muscular, the bone structure is
quite solid.
The back rises in a gentle arch fro the shoulders to the rump.
The legs are medium long, strong and solid. Hind legs are longer than
front legs and have a strong thigh. Paws are rounded.
The tail has one to several kinks or curves or a combination of both.
Those angles may be stiff or flexible. The base of the tail must be
flexible and movable. The direction of the kinks and curves is not
important. The length, which is visible (without any coat) varies from
3 to 8 cm.
The head is large and trapezium-shaped with rounded contours and
broad at the level of the cheek bones. The nose has a slight
indentation at the base, it is broad and medium long, but without any
stop.
The eyes are rounded, set wide apart and slightly slanted. Eye color
varies from yellow to green. Bicolors may have blue eyes or odd eyes.
The ears are medium in size, broad and open at the base, and slightly
tilted forward. Ear tips are rounded. The ears are set medium high and
upright. The distance between the ears is one ear width.
Kurilian Bobtail may be longhaired (semi-longhair) or shorthaired.
The coat is dense and rather fine, and has little undercoat.
The coat is short in shorthaired Bobtails, with well developed awn
hairs and solid guard hairs. Awn hair and guard hairs belong to the
top coat of a cat.
The coat is medium long in longhaired Bobtails, it has few awn
hairs, but well developed guard hairs. The cats have a shirt front, a
full ruff and breeches.
All color and patterns
Kurilian Bobtail exist in almost colors and patterns, except
chocolate/lilac, cinnamon/fawn and Colorpoints:
 | black, blue, red, cream |
| tortie, blue-cream |
| in all tabby patterns, for example: black spotted, red mackerel,
blue-cream tabby, etc. |
| with silver or golden, for example: blue smoke, tortie smoke,
blue-cream smoke, golden shaded, blue golden mackerel, red silver
tabby, tortie silver spotted, cream silver mackerel, etc. |
| with white (Bicolour, Van, etc.), for example: black-white
Bicolor, red-white Van, tortie mackerel Bicolor, cream smoke with
white, silver tabby Bicolor, etc. |
Origin
Kurilian Bobtails come from the Kuril Islands, where they live as
ordinary domestic cats. They were shown in an exhibition in 1990 for
the first time.
The first breeders were Lilia Ivanova (Kunashir cattery, longhair)
and Tatiana Botcharova (Renessance Cattery, mostly shorthair). 1997
Elena Ponomareva (Alexander-Fred cattery followed, longhair and
shorthair).
1995 the Kurilian Bobtail was recognized by WCF.
2003 followed by FIFe.
Genetics The Bobtail-tail is inherited by incomplete
dominance.
That means, when mating a Bobtail with a cat with a normal straight
tail, all kittens will have a short tail with kinks, where the
pom-pom-effect is variable (some kittens may have a shortened tail,
and some kittens may show the typical pom-pom-tail).
There is a difference to the Karelian Bobtail, where the Bobtail-tail
is inherited recessively. That means, both parents must have a
Bobtail-tail that the kittens will also have a Bobtail-tail.
As there are many Kurilian Bobtails on the Kuriles, an outcross to
another breed is not permitted.
© katzenzeitung 4/2007 |
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