| ARE ABYS LAP CATS? |
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As described in the Abyssinian Breeders International "Kitten Buyer's Guide" by Carolyn Osier, "Abyssinians must be one of the most intelligent animals ever created." This handbook for the potential Aby owner describes these cats as "...a very people-oriented cat. Not a lap cat... but a cat that likes to be with people, a cat that wants to know what you are doing - that wants to help. There is probably no breed anywhere more loyal than the Aby. Once you have acquired an Aby as a companion, you will never be able to complain that no one understands you. Abys are very good at training people to do just what they want them to do."
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| WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SIAMESE AND A COLORPOINT SH? |
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_^..^_ COLOR!!!! Colorpoint Shorthairs are the first cousins of the Siamese. This breed is distinguished by its elegance in sixteen different "point" colors beyond the four Siamese colors. Half-siblings to the Siamese by virtue of their foundation and continuing breeding with the Siamese, the Colorpoint Shorthair is a hybrid breed of the Siamese. Colorpoints, circa 1947-48, are a far cry from their angular, leggy descendants of today. Today's Colorpoints are the same structural standard of the Siamese, with the only difference being their unique point colors. In the early breedings, breeders concentrated on cats with red or cream restricted to the points (face, legs, ears, tails and genitals). Early hybridizations with domestic shorthairs, and refinement by concentrating the Siamese gene with the red gene, produced the first of the colors to eventually be called Colorpoint Shorthairs. To distinguish the new breed from the Siamese, CFA breeders adopted the name Colorpoint Shorthair for registration purposes, and through a painstaking process won recognition as a breed in 1964. The early cats who helped become the new breed were given the first color class of the Colorpoints, called the solid points, which are the red and cream points.
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| DO LONGHAIR DACHSHUNDS SHED? |
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NOT ALOT BUT, YES! ALL DOGS WITH FURR SHED. I NOTICED THAT THE DILUTES SHED VERY LITTLE BECAUSE THEY DON'T GET THAT THICK UNDERCOAT. BOYS DON'T GO THRU HEAT CYCLES SO THEY TEND TO HAVE MORE COAT THEN FEMALES. THE LONGHAIRS SHED LESS THEN THE SMOOTH HAIRS, THE SMOOTHS SHED THESE LITTLE TINY HAIRS IN HUNDREDS WHILE THE LONGHAIRS SHED AN OCCASIONAL SOFT HAIRBALL.
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