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Title: The Angora cat; how to breed train and keep it;
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: James, Robert Kent, (from old catalog) ed
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Publisher: Boston, James bros.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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cat, but the fancy of the people is for a mixed col-ored cat with regular markings, thus the coloring is veryartistic and is not at all confining as in the solid coloredcats like black and buff. The colors now that predominate are the black, brown,blue, maltese, buff, and gray, which are called solid col-ors, and the black and white, brown and white, blue andwhite, maltese and white, buff and white, ermine (whitewith black spots), tiger and white, and tortoise shell,which are termed mixed colors. A cat to be called a black or a buff cat must have avery rich coloring clear and distinct. There is muchdifference in the shades, which in one animal becomes itbetter than in others. The black with the white, whileit is exceedingly pretty, would not look as well as if thecat was a tawny black and white. Probably one of thehardest colors to produce clearly is the buff. There areas many as six different shades, still the richest coloringis the one which bears closely on to a rich fawn shade.54
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DIFFERENT COLORS OF ANGORAS. 55 A streaked buff cat, although sometimes richly marked,has not the value that a clear colored one has. Thecolor of the animal is the most important thing for oneto consider. Oftentimes a very beautiful and gracefulspecimen is discarded owing to its color and markings.For this reason in breeding one cannot give too muchcare and attention in making such selections as he, him-self, believes would be stylish and correct. The hardest colors to produce are the solids, and whileat present the price is much higher for these specimens,it is believed that as soon as the public gets educated tothe fact that other colors containing a small portionof white, mixed correctly, the mixed colors will bequite as popular. The color and breeding, while inmany instances will come true in the kittens, is notalways a safe rule to rely upon, because it is known thata pair of white cats have bred three kittens representingthe different colors of the rainbow. It would naturallybe

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