Short Hair CatsSince the gene of short hair is domineering over the long hair, the cats of short hair continue being a majority in the domestic cats. They reigned almost in solitary until the end of the XIXth century, When the selective baby of breeds started producing a more wide scale of cats of long hair of those who existed for natural means. The cap of a cat can have three types of hair: the longest hair, of protection, in the exteriorpart of the cap, and two types of hair inside the cap: the bulkiest is the Superior, and the thinnest and soft, that of the real interior cap. A typical cat of short hair will have a protection hair of approximately 4,5 cm. Of length, and the thickness of the cap changes according to the mixing of three types. The Britishers, Europeans and Americans of short hair have the only very dense cap and that repels the water; the "foreign" types like the Russian blue have a double plush cap, with an interior soft and very dense cap; whereas the oriental breeds have an alone very short, silky, glossy and very squashed cap. A short hair is easier to brush that one long, both for the cat and for the owner. Rarely it goes more than a few minutes a day, and it is possible to do caressing with the hand if there is no a brush or a comb in hand in that moment. The snarls are minimal, the shed is not a great problem and the parasites like fleas -are much easier to discover because there are less hair to hide. As much we like the robust rural cats without complications as the ultra-refined Siamese and his crosses, or the new types of wild aspect as the ocicar or cat ocelot, it is almost sure that the best thing for us will be to look for a cat of short hair. |
