Videos Singapura Breed Information
Alternate Names -
The Drain Cat, Kucinta
Country of origin -
Singapore
Breed standards -
AACE, ACFA, CFA
GCCF TICA
Singapura is a recognized breed of cat.
These excerpts are from the UK Singapura Cat Club.
"The Singapura is an alert, healthy, small cat of foreign
type. The body has good bone structure and is moderately stocky and
muscular, yet gives an impression of great elegance. Females are
usually smaller than the males, but still feel heavier than they
look. The strong slender legs taper to small oval feet. The tail
should be slender but not whippy. and should have a blunt tip. Body
colour is an old or golden ivory with a soft warm effect, ticked
with sepia brown. Each hair has at least two bands of sepia brown
ticking, separated by light bands — light next to skin, and dark
tip. Muzzle, chest, stomach and inner legs are an unticked light
ivory colour. Singapuras should have some barring on their inner
front legs and back knees. The coat is short, fine, silky, and
close-lying.
The breed has noticeably large eyes and ears. Eyes are large,
set not less than an eye width apart, held wide open, but showing
slant when closed or partially closed. A dark outline to the eyes
is desirable. Eye colour hazel, green or yellow only. Ears are
large, wide open at base, and deep cupped. The outer line of the
ears extends upwards to an angle slightly wide of parallel. The
head is gently rounded with a definite whisker break and a medium
short, broad muzzle with a blunt nose. In profile, the Singapura
has a rounded skull with a slight stop just below eye level. There
must be evidence of dark pigment outline on the nose. ‘Cheetah’
lines from the inner corner of the eye towards just behind the
whisker pad should be present.
The original home of the Singapura is the island of Singapore, with the breed taking its name from
the local Malay name for the island — meaning 'Lion City'.
The breed is the result of Mother
Nature’s combination of genes indigenous to Southeast Asia — both the brown as in
Siamese and Burmese and the agouti or ticked
pattern. The area is the highest epicentre for the agouti gene,
according to geneticist, Neal Todd, who
has published articles on the migration of feline genes. This breed
is the same colour as seal point cats or brown Burmese, but the
difference is the agouti coat pattern and how it interacts with the
sepia brown."
A full grown female Singapura usually weighs 5-6 pounds while
the male usually weighs 6-8 pounds.
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