Cat breeds in India

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To narrow 97 guides quickly, start from a group rather than the alphabet. Each one compares its breeds side by side on heat tolerance and published Indian price.

Long-haired23 guidesHeavy coats in a hot country, and the DNA tests that differ between breeds people assume are interchangeable.Rex and hairless9 guidesNine breeds, several different coat mutations, one shared inherited disease in two of them, and a skin-care bill nobody quotes.Skeletal mutations20 guidesBreeds defined by a mutation, with wildly different amounts of evidence behind them. Some measured, one never studied at all.Short-haired40 guidesThe lower-maintenance coats, and why one of them carries a Persian's problems behind a short-haired face.Wild-look breeds9 guidesThree carry a wild species in the pedigree, six do not, and the Indian legal position differs for each of the three.Thai breeds8 guidesThailand names five surviving native breeds. This page holds all five, the Western breeds built on them, and the manuscript cat Thailand leaves out.Types, not breeds8 guidesNames that are used like breeds, sold like breeds, and that no cat register anywhere holds as a breed today.Bobtails11 guidesTwo short-tail genes are mapped, a third is inferred, and most bobtail breeds have never been sequenced for any of them.

Published guides

97 guides live, listed alphabetically. Each one covers price, heat tolerance, temperament, training, exercise, health and adoption.

AbyssinianWhat an Abyssinian actually costs in India, the two cheek-swab DNA tests that decide whether your kitten stays healthy, why the ticked coat is one of…AegeanNo registry recognises this Greek island landrace, no written breed standard exists, and no Indian seller could be found.American BobtailWhat the primary genetics actually show about the American Bobtail's tail, why the Manx comparison is not marketing, what one published Indian price…American CurlOne Indian source publishes a price for this cat, the mutation behind the curled ear has never been found, and in 2026 the Scottish Fold's disease…American ShorthairWhat an American Shorthair actually costs in India, why published prices differ by 38 times, the four points in the breed standard that separate one…American WirehairWhy no Indian source publishes a price for this cat, what the crimped coat mutation actually is sixty years after it appeared, why nobody has ever…Aphrodite's GiantA Cypriot mountain landrace with two published WCF standards, a contested TICA status, and no lawful route into India.Arabian MauOne registry recognises this Gulf street cat, no study has ever measured its famous desert adaptation, and no Indian seller could be found.AsianA British breed group of five varieties with an adjective for a name, one registry in the world, 121 registrations last year, and no Indian market at…Australian MistOne of the few cat breeds with a founder, a dated permission-to-experiment, a published foundation ratio and a genuine recognition trail.BalineseWhat a Balinese actually costs in India, why two of the top-ranking price pages are now Indonesian gambling sites, why the long coat is not a Balinese…BambinoThe Bambino is a deliberate cross of the Sphynx and the Munchkin, so it carries two mutations at once.BengalWhat a Bengal cat actually costs in India, why published prices disagree by 25 times, what the law says about a breed descended from a Schedule I…BirmanWhat a Birman actually costs in India, why the published prices disagree by twenty times, the 90-second check that separates a Birman from the Ragdoll…BombayAn American breed with an Indian name, two inherited risks borrowed from the Burmese, and four registries that cannot agree on what colour its eyes…Brazilian ShorthairA standardised Brazilian street cat, the first Brazilian breed to reach international recognition, held by the World Cat Federation alone under a…British LonghairOne cat, five registries, and no agreement on whether it is a breed. What that means for an Indian buyer, and what the price really is.British ShorthairWhat a British Shorthair actually costs in India, why published prices disagree by 34 times, the two DNA tests the British registry has required since…BurmeseWhat a Burmese actually costs in India, why the country's largest cat marketplace lists none at all, the two head types that registries openly…BurmillaThe 1981 accident that made the breed, what the registries actually require a breeder to test for, and whether a silver Burmese-type shorthair suits…California SpangledA designed spotted cat from 1980s Los Angeles that a department store sold through its Christmas catalogue, and that no registry checked on 10…Chantilly-TiffanyA North American semi-longhair that began twice, was renamed in 1992 to stop a clash with a British breed, and ran out of breeding cats around 2015…ChartreuxWhat a Chartreux actually costs in India, why the one Indian figure describes a market that does not exist, which four registries recognise the breed…ChausieA domestic cat crossed with a protected Indian wild animal. Read the legal position before you read the price.Colorpoint ShorthairWhether the Colorpoint Shorthair is a breed or a colour of the Siamese has no single answer, and this page publishes the disagreement instead of…Cornish RexWhat a Cornish Rex actually costs in India, why the two Indian sources that publish a price do not overlap at all, what a coat with no guard hair…CymricOne tailless gene, four tail lengths, five registries that cannot agree whether this is a breed, and a welfare question the ranking pages reduce to a…Cyprus CatAn island landrace of about a million free-roaming cats, one derived breed held by a single registry, and a coronavirus outbreak that rewrote its…Devon RexWhat a Devon Rex actually costs in India, why published prices differ by three and a half times, the COLQ myopathy this breed gave to the Sphynx, the…DonskoyWhy the Donskoy's hairlessness is dominant and not the Sphynx's mutation, what that changes about the questions you ask a breeder, and what Indian sun…Dragon LiA Chinese tabby landrace that one registry turned into a breed for five years, then dropped. Baidu Baike files the name as a coat colour.Egyptian MauA naturally spotted breed with three founders, an Indian bloodline, and one health risk that changes how you keep it here.European ShorthairThree registries publish a written standard for this cat and three do not hold it at all. France's studbook registered two kittens in a year.Exotic ShorthairWhat an Exotic Shorthair actually costs in India, which Persian health findings have been measured in Exotics and which are being assumed, the real…FoldexA Scottish Fold crossed with an Exotic Shorthair, held by one registry in Canada, whose own show standard withholds awards for fused tail vertebrae…German RexOne rex mutation, two breed names, and a French studbook that demands two DNA tests the ranking pages say are unnecessary.Havana BrownWhat the Havana Brown actually is depends on which registry you ask, and the answer changes the rarity story.HighlanderA curled-ear, short-tailed cat that TICA has held since 2008 and shows below championship, that the GCCF red-lists by name, and whose most-repeated…HimalayanThe Himalayan is a pointed Persian, and whether that makes it a breed has no single answer.Japanese BobtailA short tail in a cat is usually a welfare question. On this breed the honest answer is largely reassuring, and this page gives the numbers behind it…JavaneseThe name survives in exactly one registry, where it labels a colour class inside another breed's standard.Jianzhou catA Qing-dynasty gazetteer says this cat has four ears. A Chinese encyclopedia explains that it does not.KanaaniOne registry, six accepted colour varieties, a closed register since 2008, and a wildcat story that appears nowhere in the registry's own document.Karelian BobtailA Russian bobtail from the islands of Lake Ladoga that exactly one international registry holds, whose entire indexed scientific literature is zero…Khao ManeeA white Thai cat whose Indian price comes from a carousel containing eight dogs, and whose history two Thai state and university sources tell…KinkalowA cross between the Munchkin and the American Curl that stacks a short-leg mutation on an ear-cartilage mutation, that TICA tracks only in an…KoratA Thai natural breed with a heart-shaped head, one permitted colour, two fatal recessive diseases with DNA tests, and 97 registrations worldwide in a…Korean BobtailFive cat registries hold 198 breed rows between them and not one of them names Korea.Korn JaA solid black Thai cat that Thailand's Cabinet made a national symbol in November 2025, that no cat registry on earth holds, and whose effective…Kurilian BobtailTen Kurilian Bobtails have had their T gene sequenced and none carried the Manx mutation. Nobody has ever tested them for the Japanese Bobtail's gene.LaPermA dominant curl from an Oregon farm colony, recognised by five registries and mapped by nobody.LambkinA curly-coated short-legged cat also called the Nanus Rex, widely reported as recognised by the World Cat Federation, and absent from all 198 rows of…LykoiA partially haired cat whose coat is caused by loss-of-function variants in Hairless, not by any rex gene.Maine CoonWhat a Maine Coon actually costs in India, why published prices disagree by more than Rs 5,75,000, and why the size premium Indian sellers charge is…ManxOne in five short-tailed Manx cats carries a further congenital anomaly, and nine in ten of those are the tailless rumpy the show standards reward.Mekong BobtailThe only breed standard this cat has anywhere requires two things at once: a tail nobody has genotyped, and a tyrosinase allele with an entire…MinskinA short-legged, mostly hairless cat built from four breeds, listed by one registry of six in its Registration Only class, and carrying two separately…MinuetA Munchkin crossed with the Persian group, held at TICA championship since 2016, issued EMS codes by the WCF, named on the GCCF red list and barred…MunchkinWhat a Munchkin cat actually costs in India, why published prices differ by forty times, what the UGDH gene does to the legs, what four registries and…NebelungA rare blue longhair with no Indian market, no FIFe code and no CFA breed council.Neva MasqueradeThe colourpoint Siberian, coded as a breed by exactly one registry of six, described inside the Siberian's own standard even there, and priced in…Norwegian Forest CatThe published Indian price, the profile test that separates it from a Maine Coon, and the two DNA tests worth more than the pedigree.OcicatA spotted cat with no wild ancestry, a short coat that genuinely suits India, one published Indian price, and a urinary stone type most owners have…Ojos AzulesA blue-eyed American breed that collapsed in the 1990s because of a birth-defect problem nobody ever published, that TICA still lists in a…Oriental BicolourFive registries, four different answers to whether this is a breed, and two of them agree exactly on one white-marking code while disagreeing on the…Oriental LonghairA svelte green-eyed longhaired cat that five registries file five different ways, was called the British Angora until 2002, and carries a lethal…Oriental ShorthairWhat an Oriental Shorthair actually costs in India, why four registries disagree about whether it is a Siamese, why no Indian marketplace stocks one…Persian CatWhat a Persian cat actually costs in India, why published prices disagree by more than Rs 2,90,000, and why a flat face plus a dense double coat is…PeterbaldA Russian hairless breed built from a Donskoy and an Oriental Shorthair in 1994, carrying a dominant hair-losing allele whose causal gene nobody has…Pixie-bobA large woolly-coated American cat whose defining bobbed tail has been sequenced, and whose one shared allele with the Manx was looked for in eight…RaasOne island, four colours, a mandatory kinked tail, and about 500 cats left.RagamuffinA large, sweet-tempered longhaired cat split from the Ragdoll in 1994, recognised by three registries under that name, and carrying almost no…RagdollWhat a Ragdoll actually costs in India, why published prices disagree by twenty times, the life expectancy figure no Indian seller publishes, and the…Russian BlueWhat a Russian Blue actually costs in India, why published prices disagree by 20 times, the four free checks that separate the breed from a grey…Russian White, Russian Black and Russian TabbyWikipedia's title says three breeds. Not one registry on earth agrees, and the registry that holds these cats bars the third one by policy.Sam SawetOne of the seventeen auspicious cats of the Ayutthaya cat-book poems, and absent from Thailand's own list of the five that survive.SavannahA serval crossed into a domestic cat, sold worldwide as a domestic breed, banned outright by one national registry and absent from every Indian seller…Scottish FoldWhat a Scottish Fold actually costs in India, why published prices disagree by twelve times, what the gene behind the folded ear does to the rest of…Selkirk RexA curly-coated cat built out of Persians and British Shorthairs, whose curl was mapped to a single splice variant and whose French registry treats it…SerengetiA long-legged spotted cat built by a conservation biologist to look like a serval without using one, recognised by exactly one registry, and sold…SiameseWhat a Siamese cat actually costs in India, why published prices disagree by eight times, why your cat's coat colour tracks your room temperature, and…SiberianA heavy triple-coated Russian forest cat sold in India to allergy sufferers, on evidence that comes to four fur samples from 1999 and four sequenced…SingapuraThe world's smallest pedigreed cat, from a homeland that barely has any, with the lowest genetic diversity ever measured in a cat breed and an origin…SnowshoeA pointed bicolour cat built in Philadelphia, with mandatory blue eyes, a documented neuropathy in young cats, and no Indian market at all.SokokeA short-coated Kenyan forest cat with a bark-like coat, recognised by three registries, and registered zero times by the largest of them in 2024.SomaliThe longhaired Abyssinian, fixed for one coat allele, carrying two inherited diseases with real numbers and real tests, and absent from the Indian…SphynxWhat a Sphynx cat actually costs in India, why published prices disagree by ten times, the 6.68 year life expectancy figure no Indian seller…SuphalakA solid copper-brown Thai cat with a single recognised colour, held by one registry of six, and the subject of exactly one peer-reviewed study.ThaiThe old-style Siamese, recognised under four different registry filings, absent from every Indian price list, and called a subpopulation of the…TiffanieThe semi-longhaired variety of the British Asian cat, held at GCCF championship since 2003, down to 20 registrations a year, and routinely confused…TonkineseA Siamese and Burmese cross with three coat patterns, three eye colours, no FIFe recognition, and the highest breed odds of diabetes in the largest…ToybobA cat under 3 kg that CFA advanced to full championship for the 2025-26 show season, that TICA still shows below championship as one of only two…ToygerA designed breed whose own standard calls it a designer cat, whose foundation includes a street cat imported from Kashmir in 1993, and whose one…Turkish AngoraWhat a Turkish Angora cat costs in India, why the published prices disagree by a factor of thirty, how the written breed standard tells this cat apart…Turkish VanA semi-longhaired highland cat from the Lake Van basin, held by six registries, studied by a Turkish state university, and repeatedly confused with a…Ukrainian LevkoyA hairless cat with folded ears, built from a Donskoy and a Scottish Fold, held at provisional class by one Ukrainian registry that no ranking page…York ChocolateAn American farm cat with a chocolate coat that four registries still carry on paper, that the French national studbook registered zero of in 2025…

How to read these guides

Every breed page follows the same structure, so two breeds can be compared directly rather than read end to end.

• Trait ratings out of 5 sit near the top, including heat tolerance, which almost no other breed site rates and which matters more in India than anything except temperament.
• Price sections compare published sources rather than quoting one figure, because Indian breed prices disagree wildly between sellers.
• Health sections cite primary literature where it exists, and say plainly where it does not. Indian breeds have no equivalent of the large cohort studies that exist for popular Western breeds.
• Every guide ends with adoption, because for many households it is the better answer and nobody pays us to say otherwise.