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The Savannah is a hybrid cat breed.

It is a cross between a serval and a domestic cat.

History.

A Savannah cat is a cross between a domestic cat and the serval, a medium-sized, large-eared wild African cat.

The unusual cross became popular among breeders at the end of the 1990s, and in 2001 the International Cat Association accepted it as a new registered breed.

In May 2012, TICA accepted it as a championship breed.

The Persian cat (Persian: گربه ایرانی) is a long-haired breed of cat characterized by its round face and short muzzle.

It is sometimes called the Longhair or Persian Longhair.

It is also known as the Shirazi cat or Iranian cat, particularly in the Middle East.

The first documented ancestors of the Persian were imported into Europe from Iran (Persia) around 1620.

Recognized by the cat fancy since the late 19th century, it was developed first by the English, and then mainly by American breeders after the Second World War.

Some cat fancier organizations' breed standards subsume the Himalayan and Exotic Shorthair as variants of this breed, while others treat them as separate breeds.

The Bengal is a domestic cat breed developed to look like exotic jungle cats such as leopards, ocelots, margays and clouded leopards.

Bengal cats were developed by the selective breeding of domestic cats crossed then backcrossed and backcrossed once more with hybrids from the Asian leopard cat (ALC), Prionailurus bengalensis bengalensis, and domestic cat, with the goal of creating a confident, healthy, and friendly cat with a highly contrasted and vividly marked coat.

A cat registry or cat breed registry, also known as a cat fancier organisation, cattery federation, or cat breeders' association, is an organisation that registers domestic cats (usually purebred) of many breeds, for exhibition and for breeding lineage tracking purposes.

A cat registry stores the pedigrees (genealogies) of cats, cattery names, and other details of cats; studbooks (lists of authorised studs of recognised breeds), breed descriptions, and the formal breed standards (a.k.a.

standards of points or SoP); lists of judges qualified to judge at shows run by or affiliated with that registry; and sometimes other information.

A cat registry is not the same as a breed club or breed society (these are specific-breed organisations that may be affiliated with one or more registries with whom they have lodged breed standards in order to be able to exhibit under the auspices of that registry).

Cat registries each have their own rules and usually also organise or license (sanction) cat shows.

The show procedures vary widely, and awards won in one registry are not normally recognised by another.

Some registries only serve breeders, while others are oriented toward pet owners and provide individual as well as cattery memberships, while yet others are federations only deal with breed clubs or even other registries as intermediaries between the organisation and breeders.

The Maine Coon is one of the largest domesticated breeds of cat.

It has a distinctive physical appearance and valuable hunting skills.

It is one of the oldest natural breeds in North America, specifically "native" to the state of Maine (though the feline was simply introduced there), where it is the official state cat.