Over the last thousands of years, cats have handled their breeding themselves. At the beginning, they were used for one main purpose: hunting and killing rodents, but through the years, humans breed cats more and more to their preference.
Nowadays, there are more then 70 different cat breeds. You can read more about the different breeds at a nice website I found: www.pictures-of-cats.org
Cats reproduce all the time. in fact, they have the highest reproduce rate, because hundreds of thousands of them are living in the streets. The sight of the cat is the easiest way to tell what race is he or she may be, by looking at the hair color and the appearance. For example: Persian Cats are easily identified by their morphology and their hair. But you should know that a lot of cats do not fit within a breed, because they are domestic cats.
It’s actually quite difficult to know what breed is your cat, if you didn’t purchase your cat from a breeder, but I honesty think that every cat has it’s special character and beauty, and that breed doesn’t really matter, cats are adorable animals.
