Cymric Cat Breed Profile

From Rayna Stout, Cedaredge, CO
This is Loki who is 2. She is full grown and only weighs 3 lbs. She enjoys teasing the Border Collies and going to the nursing home.

Coat Type, Color & Grooming	The Cymric has a soft, semi-long outercoat that gradually lengthens from head to rump. Many colors and patterns are accepted, including tabby, solid, bicolor, shaded, tortoiseshell, and calico. Special grooming needs.
Physical Attributes	The Cymric is a solidly built, medium-size, cobby cat with a round head, widely spaced ears, and large, round eyes. The powerful hindlegs are longer than the front legs, so the short back arches upward to the rounded rump. A completely tailless Cymric is called a "rumpy"; the "rumpy riser" appears to be tailless but has one to three vertebrae fused to the end of the spine; the "stumpy" has one to five normal vertabrae, which give the cat a short, moveable tail stump; the "longy" is a cat witha shorter-than-normal tail, but a tail nonetheless. See Also: Picture Gallery
Personality	It is a friendly, affectionate, relaxed companion--an easy feline to share a home with. According to some sources the Cymric is somewhat doglike in its habits; it will play "fetch," growl at an unidentified disturbance, and may follow its owner around. See Also: Readers' Opinions and Add Your Own
Health Problems	Some experience neurologic disorders and defecation problems due to spinal defects associated with the gene for taillessness. Spinal abnormalities can be discerned in kittens before they reach four months of age.

Reader's Comments on this Breed

From Claire, Davenport, Iowa
I've had many pets during my life and my favorite was my Cymric cat named Amos! He was so funny and everyone in town loved him. He was chubby and had an attitude.