KURIL BOBTAIL: ABOUT BREED

KURIL BOBTAIL: ABOUT BREED

This amazing tail!

We can say that today, Kuril Bobtail - one of the youngest rocks, but despite this popularity rating bobtails in Russia is large enough. Today, virtually no one is an international exhibition of cats, which have not been submitted Kuriles.

On the short tail bobtail can talk for hours. Where to start? Let's start with the concept of "bobtail." Many novice breeders interpret the term as "tail in the form bean", ie short tail, shaped like a ball or drops. In fact, the more correct interpretation would be "kutsy tail", ieshorter, lopped, twisted, folded, or wrap itself around you. Two identical tails Kuril Bobtail is impossible to find! Bobtail tails like fingerprints in humans. They are so individual as possible. Moreover, the same type of tail does not put the goal of breeding, and probably a variety of tails gives even more charm to the Kuril Islands.

During the examination the judge Bobtail of cat should indicate the apparent length of the tail, the number of vertebrae, the tail of this component, the number of breaks, and sometimes even the angle of the fracture and the mobility or immobility of the compound vertebra. Under the current standard of the tail is described as: ".... short, the apparent length of 5-13 cm, in the form of" bean "," pompoms, "" spiral ", well furred. The tail is from 2 to 10 vertebrae, numerous twisted in any direction. Any degree of mobility. "

Description of the tail "as a bean" or "as a pompon" - a description of the appearance of the tail. In fact, the tail is completely different structure. As practice shows, the most common types of tails is:

• «a tree stump." This tail is most often composed of 8.2 vertebrae, extremely shortened, as it were planted on each other, connect the vertebrae are usually fixed, kinks are quite obtuse angle, and sometimes felt as lumps. The apparent length of the tail 2-5 cm

• «spiral." Tail-spiral consists of 3-15 vertebrae, fractured plentiful, often at quite sharp angles, connected by movable joints or polupodvizhnymi.The visible tail length of 5-10 cm

• «brush." The tail-brush is 5-10 vertebrae with fractures at an obtuse angle, the vertebrae are joined polupodvizhno. The visible tail length of 5-15 cm

• «Delayed bobtail." This tail starts as a normal cat's tail for 5-7 vertebrae, and at the end of the tail to form a "hook" has compiled 4.7 with 3-4 vertebrae fractures of any degree of mobility at any possible angle.

(All names are relative, as the jargon used by breeders)