Friends spent more than 1,000 in the pet store three months ago to buy a particularly cute cat, the owner said that the American short-tailed cat is particularly clingy, three months later by the cat grew up by the cat I found out is a tanuki cat.
Well, the difference between a short beauty and a tanuki flower.
In fact, the beauty short and tanuki cat are easy to distinguish
1- Coat color is the most intuitive difference.
Short: Silver and silver tabby plus white are more common, the current market can see the purebred also brown tabby, red tabby, Camille color, tricolor, patch color and a variety of rare colors.
Tanuki flowers: brown is dominant, but other colors are also available.
2. Texture.
Short: Tabby characteristic stripes, there are also fishbone stripes. On the Chinese scale, the likelihood that the fishbone pattern is purebred is short is negligible.
Tanuki flowers: bone spurs are predominantly striated.
3. Face shape
Beauty short: oval, flat round, the face width is greater than the face length.
Tanuki: A diamond shape that is close to a hexagon.
The method of judgment is to look up at the front photo, cover the two ears of the cat with your fingers, and if the cheeks are flushed, block the outcoming cheeks, and observe the face shape.
Note: Be sure to look up at the photo or video head-up, sometimes the pointed-faced cat looks up and looks less pointed.
4. Nose shape
Short: The nose is short, the shape is small square, the bridge of the nose is flat and short, and the length of the nose is equal to the width of the nose.
Tanuki: The bridge of the nose is high and straight, rectangular in shape, and the nose is longer than the width of the nose.
5. Bridge of the nose.
Beauty Short: Viewed from the side, the bridge of the nose to the forehead is connected by a soft curve. Note that the curves are soft.
Tanuki: The transition is straight, with no noticeable arc.
Some of the characteristics of the Beauty Short:
eye
Big and wide
Shape: half almond on the upper half, full circle on the lower half;
The distance between the two eyes is at least one eye width;
The outer corner of the eye is slightly upwards than the inner corner of the eye.
ear
Medium-sized, with a microcircle at the end pointing to the sides and a root part that is not too open, measured from the lower edge of the inner side of the ear, the distance between the ears is equivalent to twice the distance between the two eyes
body
Muscular and well-developed.
From the side view, as shown in the following figure, divide the body into three equal parts.
↓ From the front of the sternum to the elbow; from the elbow to the front of the hind limbs; From the front of the hind limbs to the posterior end of the hips
The above is the main difference between the beauty short and the tanuki flower, and there are many other details that will not be explained one by one