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 meaning to them.

You can visualize that tea cup cats as miniature cats but they are little different as far as their characteristics are concerned. When we refer to normal cats the female weighs around fourteen pounds and a male up to seventeen pounds.

In relation to normal cats the tea cup one weighs only a meager three pounds going up till eight pounds at the most and never beyond that. Keeping these weight factors in mind you can take a look at a tea cup cat on sale come to know immediately whether a cat is a real tea cup variety or not.

Knowing the particular characteristics of a tea cup cat will certainly assist 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 ordinary cats. You must realize that a tea cup will weigh only up to eight pounds and no more.

Many people find 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 tea cup cats can be very demanding as far as love and care is concerned due to their small size and frail nature. And the cat owners are more than prepared to shower their attention on them.

The tea cup cats do not come naturally and are bred by a process called inbreeding. Here the cat breeders mate the smallest category of one breed with the smallest variety of another. The size of the off springs gradually decreases with the coming of each new generation thus gradually the correct size is acquired after a few generations.

The whole process of cutting down the size has a relation to the Japanese art of dwarfism of a tree. A similar process is practiced 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 that goes by the name of achondroplasia. Here the mutation affects the balance of the cats body. Owing 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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