Teacup and Toy Persian Kittens
“Teacup Persian Kittens” – One of the most misunderstood ( and searched phrase) on the internet.
Everyone loves the idea of pets that stay little, like when they were 8 weeks old, however false information surrounding these tiny treasures loom over the teacup Persian cats.
This misinformation is largely in part to unethical cat breeders who like to prey on the, “wish side” of your brain, rather than focus on the truth and facts.
Let’s clear up some of the confusion of, “Teacup Cats” with facts.
Persian cats have been around since at least the 1600’s and have evolved into the beautiful divas that we have today. They are, as written by the standard’s created by the Cat Fancier’s Association, “a thick bodied, heavy boned and well-rounded feline”. They average weight of a standard size Persian, NO MATTER THE COLOR, is 10-15 pounds. In the last 20 years, a select group of individual Persian breeder decided to take the smallest boned color category (historically the Silver/Golden division) and use those lines to create a smaller structure Persian.
These have taken the last two (2) decades to arrive at where we are today with a polished and refined version of exactly what they are, Teacup and Toy sizes.
Teacup Persians are proportioned like a regular sized cat, but because of their overall smaller bones they end up weighing much less than a regular sized Persian cat. Teacup sized Persians are 4-8 pounds.
A few rebels within our group have tried to coin their own personal descriptive terms such as, “micro” and “pocket kitty”. If there were such a thing as a full grown cat that fit in your pocket, don’t you think that, the cat would be listed in the Guinness Book of World Records? While we applaud their creativity, bottom line is there are only two (2) smaller divisions aside from the “standard” size and at the risk of repeating myself, they are the Teacup and Toy size. Weight varies slightly depending on diet, so as with any living creature, size is not precise to the half-pound, but is within a certain range.
It cannot be, nor should it be an obsession with exact weight of these two (2) smaller sizes, but more of an overall structure which is indeed and significantly less than the “standard” size Persian.
Toy sized Persians under 10 pounds at full maturity. Is this a guarantee with absolute certainty? Is ANYTHING in this life? No, it is a educated “guestimate” based on the history of a particular line within a breeder’s program and one that each breeder should know better than anyone else and also not something that a breeder who has not chosen to work with these smaller lines has any business commenting on.
All too often breeders list runts as a teacup in an effort to sell them at full price, or in some cases elevated prices.
If you are looking for a cat that is clearly, visually extraordinary tiny and smaller than your silver and gold Persians, you may want to look into the designer hybrid Persian Rug Huggers.
When a rug hugger is bred into a silver or gold, those are truly the tiniest cats in the world.
I hope this page has help to clarify some of the misconceptions and false illusions surrounding the teacup Persian cats.
Once again, the ONLY colors that are naturally small are Silver Persians and Golden Persians.
