The quirks of the character of Thai cats, the story of a noble origin

Modern democracy cannot forbid the creation of voluntary associations of any, even absurd, content, so long as the public peace is not disturbed. There are almost no restrictions for the jaded society of consumers. If clubs for obese animals are opened, then the worse are ordinary, and even more so thoroughbred cats.

Federations and Associations of Cats

There are, for example, World Cat Federations in different versions, like in boxing. (Sharikov must have rolled over in his grave more than once). This is not a joke – WCF (World Cat Federation – World Cat Federation) and TICA (The International Cat Association – International Cat Association).

Other competitors are also emerging. There is an organization with a completely human name, CFA – Association of Cat Lovers. What drives these people besides money and vanity? The cats themselves do not need diplomas and certificates, as well as money. Kittens with the right papers just cost a lot more than out-of-fashion, and even more so non-standard charms.

The commercial component of the TICA website is not directly visible: there are no ads for sale on it, and it looks quite modest. But more than 6000 members of the association are ready to make up for this shortcoming. Vanity Fair did not pass by Siamese and Thai cats. Why is the classification standard of the World Cat Federation not recognized by the Fédération Internationale Féline (FIFe)?

Essence of the question

The cats themselves, thank God, do not know that the controversy concerns their breed. New (improved or mutilated, not for us to judge) breeds of Siamese cats are noticeably different from their ancestors and therefore real siamese cats they lost the right to be called that, since they did not join either the Federation or the Association of New Siamese (New Russians were late here).

In order not to infringe on the Rights of Classic Cats at all, they came up with a new name: Thai cats (cats), since Siam has been called Thailand since 1939. Fat cats (big businessmen) put on exhibitions, issue regulations and, of course, make money from it. Breeders who are actively involved in such events also manage to make good money. All the rest remain fools, but with documents.

In fact, it is not so stupid at all, which was noticed long ago by Pascal (after whom the programming language is named). Both in royal times and now, a narrow circle of rich and vain people has an urgent need for something to stand out from the rest. For this they create attributes inaccessible to the general public (and fashion companies are playing along):

• Expensive cars.
• Prestigious watches (they may not even work, as long as they are on hand).
• Clothing by which you can immediately recognize a successful person.
• Expensive accessories.
• Animals accompanying a luxurious life. In the absence of a stable with Arabian horses, as an option, expensive dogs and cats.

The wife of a provincial new Russian, who does not know English and frightens respectable Europeans with her clothes, will feel at a prestigious cat show like a merchant’s wife who has legally entered a noble assembly. Only imitators of luxurious life remain fools. For those for whom a few thousand dollars is not money, an expensive cat is just a flashing detail. And those buyers for whom such money is already scratching the soul are the real victims of suggestion.

Still Thai cats are not a rare breed, so it is difficult to attribute them to the attributes of a luxurious life. Vanity is graded according to the degree of prestige of competitions and titles that animals can earn.

Thai cats

This breed, to separate from modern species, is also called Traditional, Classic or Old Style Siamese (Old – style Siamese). That is, the Thai cat is real Siamese, only with a temporary (provisional) passport of a new type, which was issued to her by the International Cat Association in 2007. (WCF has done this before).

Official registration

Finally, at the 2010 show, which was called the Championship, the Thai cat received the official status of the International Cat Association, as a real breed. Naturally, there were fat cats (merchants) who made money on other official breeds, and obsessed amateurs who did not recognize the new standard. It’s funny or sad, but some cats living in their homeland, in Thailand, do not have the right to be called either Siamese or Thai cats, and their foreign counterparts, even completely different from them, have a new, correct, Siamese passport.

Passport details of a Thai cat

When issuing (not issuing) a passport, cats are met by clothes, and they are escorted by it. In contrast to the rude fur purveyors who evaluate animal fur (eng. fur), the refined experts of the Associations and Federations look at the cover, coat ( coat ) of the contestant. If there are no complaints about the clothes at all, then 20 points are awarded (15 for texture and 5 for color).

Other parts of the Thai cat are evaluated in the same spirit (TICA standard http://www.tica.org/members/publications/standards/th.pdf):

Head – 40 points:

• Head shape – 15.
• Profile and nose – 5.
• Eyes – 4.
• Ears – 7.
• Muzzle and chin – 7.
• Neck – 2.

Body – 40 points:

• Torso – 15.
• Legs and paws – 8.
• Tail – 5.
• Skeletal system – 8.
• Musculature – 4.

Moreover, the legs should be of medium length, graceful in shape, not coarse, and the paws should be oval, proportional to the cat itself. Russian experts can only dream of the powers of such a commission: the roundness of a paw in a Thai cat could cost a tidy sum. These vague figures vary from Federation to Federation, so a real champion must have belts in all versions, and there are more than ten of them. This is basically impossible, because the accents of the standards are placed differently:

FFE standards

• Head, ears, eyes – 25 points.
• Body – 25 points.
• Structure – 10 points.
• Coat color, eye color – 35 points.
• Condition – 5 points.

That is, a color that has almost no meaning in America, goes, as an indicator, to 1st place in Europe. Everyone has their own quirks. In any case, this has nothing to do with scientific assessments – some scientists cannot measure the area, while others cannot measure the volume and then argue which is more important.

Where is the dog buried

Club Thai kittens are sold on average for 20 rubles, show class starts from 30 rubles. If a person can be fooled with an apartment, then kittens simply ask for safe hands. And then the province went to dance! What does “club kittens” mean? As a rule, only that someone makes money on it. So the love for animals lies in a very wide range: from a disinterested half-crazy granny with an apartment full of homeless cats to arrogant breeders who are ready to do anything for money.

On Western sites you can find ads with almost the same price range: ordinary club kittens sold from $500 to $1200, but you can find 10 times cheaper. There are offers like this: $700 for a kitten plus $300 shipping. You can buy a thoroughbred kitten from us for at least 1000 rubles.

If in the West commercial life is somehow regulated and the responsibility of the participants is indicated by large penalties, the effect of which is inevitable, then our rules are more likely to be arbitrariness. A conscientious applicant for any type of activity will wait years for permission if he decides to do without a bribe. The originality of the judicial system is more likely to be used by those who are familiar with it than by respectable citizens.

All this fully applies to trade in live goods. By her own Price doesn’t guarantee anything. for quite serious money you can get a kitten with fake documents. From wealthy people who are not interested in such commerce, and a thoroughbred cat has kittens, you can get them for free. Such people, as well as good specialists, still need to be looked for, so not everyone is lucky.

The nature of the Thai cat

The attitude of a person to cats largely depends on the random components of the mentality, which is mainly inspired by the masses from the outside. So, in Ancient Egypt, a person was killed for an accidentally crushed cat, and in Medieval Europe, on the contrary, the courts of the Inquisition could quite seriously deal with black cats. So a person very often looks more stupid than a cat, but more dangerous and unpredictable. The fashion for cats, in particular, is dictated from the outside, and the followers of the fashion only perform an implicit trial installation of manufacturers to buy.

Features of cats in general

“The legs feed the wolf”, so he does not care that he smells like a dog, endurance is one of his competitive advantages. The swiftness of a cat is only enough for a short time, so cats are big cleaners. Coloring is also aimed at a surprise attack from an ambush. The structure of the teeth speaks for itself.

Features of Thai cats

People of different mentality (or age) even do not understand each other, despite the speech capabilities. Even more so, relationships with animals can be reduced to very simple concepts. The hostess who feeds the cat is perplexed: why does her pet sit at the feet of her husband, who watches TV, and tries to escape from her arms. It doesn’t occur to her that the slight smell of tired feet bothers a cat much less than intense cosmetics.

Any animal, man in particular, does not like coercion. It is necessary to commit great violence in order to break the resistance of a free horse and put a yoke on it for life. How Kuklachev managed to cope with cats, only he himself knows – the independence of this animal is known to everyone.

The Thai cat in some mysterious way chooses a dominant in a group of people, and he becomes her favorite. How this choice happens is unknown, maybe other stories can tell something. For example:

Provincial town. Inside the fence is a sheepdog on a long chain. She is completely indifferent to the owner, who feeds and waters the dog every day. When the owner returns home from work, the shepherd begins to nervously run from place to place and, finally, the gate opens, and the dog, salivating with joy, rushes to the peasant. He displeasedly pushes her away with his hand: she went to … and disappears behind the door. This happens every evening.

The explanation turned out to be quite simple. The owner, not paying attention to the dog, sometimes took it with him to hunt. The shepherd dog simply freaked out in the forest from freedom and new smells, and then waited for weeks, anticipating this happiness, the embodiment of which was in charge of her gloomy owner.

In Thai cats, unlike many of her indifferent brethren there is some sort of attachment. And it looks worthy of the character of a royal animal: if the dominant (her pet) does not appear at home for several days, then when they meet, she does not climb to rub near her legs, but looks intently at her subordinate (pet) and pronounces something for a long time and displeasedly. Moreover, these sounds are unlike the usual “meow”, but they sound exactly like a slap: who allowed you to wander around for so long? Not immediately, but on the same day she can forgive such an offense.

Thai cats very curious and love to play. Sometimes at night something seems to wake up in them, and they start running all over the apartment, flying through the bed and rushing to the other end. Normal cats don’t eat sausages and sausages, but if it is accidentally left on the table, then in the morning it will be clear who was making noise at night and why the sausages are on the floor – Thai women can play alone with passion. Usually animals can not stand the gaze – for them it means they are ready to attack. A Thai cat, on the contrary, can look at a person for a long time, as if checking whether everything is in order.

If a cat has grown up in an apartment without getting out, then going out into the world will be a great stress for her, despite her natural curiosity – with fear she can scratch the owner and even describe. Therefore, her acquaintance with the new environment is best done in adolescence.

Do not underestimate the mental abilities of animals (they only have innate and conditioned reflexes, etc.) or exaggerate your own. The thought processes in the heads of fighting people are hardly different from those of animals – the incoming information and the actions for processing it are almost the same in different-looking heads, in animals it works even better and with greater coordination.

The opposite situation occurs even more often: when incomprehensible, in principle, the actions of animals are accompanied by conjectures, it remains to add a little semblance of sacredness and the appearance of the sacred animal of Egypt becomes understandable. cats can anticipate an earthquake and guess the character of the person. But more often the explanation looks much simpler. For example, if a cat suddenly arches its back and hisses when a stranger appears, this usually means that a person is holding a dog.

About the sad, but it’s better to know in advance

Human selfishness in relation to animals is not a wonder: it contains edible species in order to kill and eat, but cats also get it – they are sterilized, stuffed with antisex pills. Both are disrespectful to the animal.

What is good about club thoroughbred cats with documents is that kittens can be in a pinch give to resellers or just sell – but the cat will live its real, full life. Anti-sex pills almost always lead to illness – this is even worse than sterilization. A sick cat, even after the operation, can be found huddled in a far corner, where she decided to die out of sight.

The noble royal character of the Thai cat is even reflected in this. Feeling the approach of death, she will not plaintively look into her eyes and beg for something, she will hide in a far dark corner (if she still finds it) and will calmly wait for its end. If she has stopped eating and, most importantly, drinking, and at the same time she has an indifferent, self-absorbed look, then the only thing to do is bring an empty box, cover it with something dark and put water next to it.

If a miracle happened, then you still need to draw conclusions, but it’s better to decide in advance. For many, the loss of a pet is a tragedy. And if children became witnesses of the disease, then a miserable lie: like a kitty went to the hospital, it will serve as a bad pedagogical lesson. So before you take a kitten, you need to think carefully about your responsibility to children, in particular.

Under normal conditions, the Thai cat is an excellent choice. By her retirement age (about 15 years old), the children will already be adults. Artificial breeds live less, and the Thai cat is the real classic Siamese breed, the least selected.

For true lovers of animals and nature in general, breed is not the most important. Much more important is the very atmosphere that the animals bring. Cats can reconcile quarreling spouses, calm the nerves of a schoolboy after a failure. And a purebred mongrel can be tougher and smarter than any diploma winner of the competition, just remember Kashtanka.