 These
excerpts are from the UK Singapura Cat Club.
"The Singapura is an alert, healthy, medium sized 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."
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A small, solid, warm, satin coated heating pad. That's a
singapura in bed with you, but if you don't wake up on time
you get your face patted with a soft paw, or your eyelids
washed, or your nose polished as they mark you as theirs. Next
they have to sit at your feet and look at you accusingly to
see if you're through on YOUR litter pan, or sometimes they'll
sit by the wash bowl asking you to turn the water on a dribble
so they can have their morning mouth wash. The water always
tastes better out of the faucet or your glass on the bathroom
counter.
They'll beat you to the door, the dining table, and have to
sit on the kitchen counter to see just what you're doing up
there. (If you want a cat that stays off the kittchen counter,
DO NOT get a singapura.) And the warmest place in the house is
THEIRS!!
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You don't have to wait for your back to be turned, they'll
open kitchen cabinets and drawers with apparent ease and very
little time to figure out how to do it. Have you been told
that these are very intelligent critters? Well, you have now!
Anything with big eyes and big ears has got to take in a lot
of information.
The newspaper is a wonderful place for them to sit--but
only if you're trying to read it. The sewing machine is a
marvel of movement. Much like watching a tennis match but with
up and down movement instead of side to side. Cracks under
inside doors were meant especially for singapuras to hide toys
under. Shove them under and run around the door quick to find
them and push them back the other way. One cat on one side of
the door and one cat on the other is a different game but just
a challenging.
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