For those of us that are ignorant of the term teacup cats it seems like quite a odd phenomenon when someone mentions the term. You may have heard of miniature cats being sold but teacup cats have a slightly different edge to them.

Teacup Persian cats are miniature cats but they differ with regards to some very specific details. A normal female cat weighs somewhere between eleven to fourteen pounds and a male cat can go up to seventeen.

On the other hand a teacup Persian cat starts weighing in at the meager three pound mark and stays below eight at the maximum. If you have these weight markings in mind then you will immediately be able to gauge whether the cat being offered in the market is an actual teacup Persian cat.

Knowing the dominant characteristics of a tea cup cat will certainly help you when you plan to acquire one and will save you from the clutches of cat breeders of questionable characters. If they wish to cheat you they will offer a cat which weighs less than ten pounds and try to pass it off as tea cup Persian but actually these are common cats. You must realize that a tea cup will weigh only up to eight pounds and no more.

Many people think the teacup Persian cat variety to be very charming. As it is Persian cats are considered to be extremely cute and cuddly making them an excellent choice for a home pet.

The teacup Persian cat with its exceptionally small size and delicate nature is all the more demanding of love and care which is one of the things that cat owners instinctively do.

The question is, where do they come from? Teacup Persian cats are actually specially bred by a procedure known as inbreeding. This process involves mating the smallest sized cat from one particular breed with the smallest cat of a different breed. With each new generation the changes slowly start to creep in thus resulting in the teacup cat after a couple of turnovers.

The whole process of reducing the size has a relation to the Japanese art of dwarfism of a tree. A similar process is used to dwarf the cats size. When we take the case of tea cup Persian cats however there are two methods involved in the procedure of dwarfism.

The main procedure which is followed in dwarfism is mutating of genes which goes by the name of achondroplasia. Here the mutation affects the balance of the cats body. Due to this balance the bone growth of the cat is controlled resulting in overall smaller bones. Tea cup Persians is more popular than any other tea cup cats in the world.

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