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<a href="/wiki/Foundation_stock" title="Foundation stock">foundation stock</a> likely from <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" title="Ancient Egypt">Egypt</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Variety status</th><td class="infobox-data">Not recognized as a <a href="/wiki/Breed_standard" title="Breed standard">standardized breed</a> by any major <a href="/wiki/Cat_registry" title="Cat registry">breed registry</a>.</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #d3d3a4;">Notes</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div style="text-align: left;">Cyprus cats are a <a href="/wiki/Landrace" title="Landrace">landrace</a>, not a <a href="/wiki/Breed_standard" title="Breed standard">standardized breed</a>.</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="background-color: #d3d3a4;"><span class="vernacular"><a href="/wiki/Cat" title="Cat">Domestic cat</a></span> (<span class="binominal"><i>Felis catus</i></span>)</td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cyprus-Cat-Limassol-Castle.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Cypriot Cat at the Limassol Medieval Castle" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Cyprus-Cat-Limassol-Castle.jpg/220px-Cyprus-Cat-Limassol-Castle.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Cyprus-Cat-Limassol-Castle.jpg/330px-Cyprus-Cat-Limassol-Castle.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Cyprus-Cat-Limassol-Castle.jpg/440px-Cyprus-Cat-Limassol-Castle.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3024" data-file-height="4032" /></a><figcaption>Cypriot cat at the Limassol Medieval Castle</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Cyprus cats</b>, also known as <b>Cypriot cats</b>, <b>Saint Helen cats</b>, and <b>Saint Nicholas cats</b>, are a <a href="/wiki/Landrace" title="Landrace">landrace</a> of <a href="/wiki/Domestic_cat" class="mw-redirect" title="Domestic cat">domestic cat</a> found across the island of <a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a>. A <a href="/wiki/Breed_standard" title="Breed standard">standardized breed</a> is being developed from them; among <a href="/wiki/Cat_fancy" title="Cat fancy">cat fancier</a> and <a href="/wiki/Breed_registry" title="Breed registry">breeder organizations</a>, it is presently fully recognized by the <a href="/wiki/World_Cat_Federation" title="World Cat Federation">World Cat Federation</a> (WCF), with breeding regulated by the <a href="/wiki/World_Cat_Congress" title="World Cat Congress">World Cat Congress</a> (WCC), under the name <b>Aphrodite's Giant</b>; and provisionally by <a href="/wiki/The_International_Cat_Association" title="The International Cat Association">The International Cat Association</a> (TICA) as the <b>Aphrodite</b>. All three organizations permit shorthaired and semi-longhaired versions and no <a href="/wiki/Out-cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Out-cross">out-crossing</a> to other breeds. </p><p>The earliest known written record of cats on Cyprus refers to a story of <a href="/wiki/Helena_of_Constantinople" class="mw-redirect" title="Helena of Constantinople">Saint Helen of Constantinople</a> sending two boatloads of cats to a monastery on the island from <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" title="Ancient Egypt">Egypt</a> or Palestine in the 4th century AD to deal with an infestation of snakes. Cats on Cyprus have been able to breed for centuries with comparatively little outside influence; this has resulted in a distinct, locally adapted variety of cat which appears to have developed as a <a href="/wiki/Feral_cat" title="Feral cat">feral</a> population in the inner highlands, though is found throughout the island in modern times. While <a href="/wiki/Near_Eastern_wildcat" class="mw-redirect" title="Near Eastern wildcat">wildcats</a> in association with humans on Cyprus date to at least 7500 BC – the earliest proven association of cats with humans – there is no known connection between those ancient <a href="/wiki/Taming" class="mw-redirect" title="Taming">tamed</a>-wild specimens and modern domesticated Cyprus cats, despite breeder claims to the contrary. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cyprus_cat&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cyprus_Cat_Yawning.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Cyprus_Cat_Yawning.jpg/220px-Cyprus_Cat_Yawning.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Cyprus_Cat_Yawning.jpg/330px-Cyprus_Cat_Yawning.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Cyprus_Cat_Yawning.jpg/440px-Cyprus_Cat_Yawning.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a><figcaption>A domesticated Cyprus cat yawning</figcaption></figure> <p>A paper by J.-D. Vigne, et al., concluded in 2004 that the discovery of <a href="/wiki/Near_Eastern_wildcat" class="mw-redirect" title="Near Eastern wildcat">Near Eastern wildcat</a> (<i>Felis silvestris lybica</i>) remains in a 9,500-year-old grave in Cyprus is the oldest example to date of a cat in close association with humans. <a href="/wiki/Archaeology" title="Archaeology">Archaeologists</a> led by Jean Guillain working at the <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a> site of <a href="/wiki/Shillourokambos" title="Shillourokambos">Shillourokambos</a> uncovered carefully interred remains of a cat alongside human remains and decorative artifacts, on an island separated from the mainland since before human habitation, thus indicating human introduction of cats to the area. "Examination showed that a small pit or grave had been deliberately dug out, and the body of the cat was placed in it, then rapidly covered." The cat skeleton pre-dates Egyptian depictions of cats by 4,000 years or more.<sup id="cite_ref-9500_years_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9500_years-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-oldknown.org_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oldknown.org-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is no evidence that modern cats of any variety are descended from ancient Cypriot wildcats; nevertheless both WCF<sup id="cite_ref-WCF_std_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WCF_std-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and TICA<sup id="cite_ref-TICA_std_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TICA_std-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> have uncritically repeated breeder claims of such descent. </p><p>Cyprus cats of today are more likely linked with the <a href="/wiki/Monastery" title="Monastery">monastery</a> named <a href="/wiki/Saint_Nicholas" title="Saint Nicholas">Saint Nicholas</a> of the Cats (<a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="el">Άγιος Νικόλαος των Γατών</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek" title="Romanization of Greek">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Greek-language romanization"><i lang="el-Latn">Ágios Nikólaos ton Gatón</i></span>), which was founded in the 4th century AD. It is located near <a href="/wiki/Akrotiri_(village)" title="Akrotiri (village)">Akrotiri</a>. According to <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine empire">Byzantine</a> legend, <a href="/wiki/Helena_of_Constantinople" class="mw-redirect" title="Helena of Constantinople">Helena of Constantinople</a> (Saint Helen) shipped hundreds of cats from Egypt or Palestine to Cyprus in 328 AD to control venomous snakes that had infested the area around the monastery, following a drought lasting 37 years. The monastery had two bells, one to call the cats to meals and the other to send them into the fields to hunt snakes. The population of cats at the site (today a <a href="/wiki/Nunnery" class="mw-redirect" title="Nunnery">nunnery</a>) once dwindled, but has now revived thanks to care by the resident nuns.<sup id="cite_ref-RoughGuide_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RoughGuide-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="Nobel Prize in Literature">Nobel laureate</a> <a href="/wiki/Giorgos_Seferis" title="Giorgos Seferis">Giorgos Seferis</a> wrote of these cats in his poem "The Cats of St. Nicholas".<sup id="cite_ref-Seferis_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Seferis-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The story being a legend, it is impossible to know for certain today if shiploads of cats were really sent to Cyprus in the 4th century and cats have, of course, been arriving on the island (often as <a href="/wiki/Ship%27s_cat" title="Ship's cat">ship's cats</a>) for many centuries. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/World_Cat_Congress" title="World Cat Congress">World Cat Congress</a> is of the opinion that Cyprus cats developed over time in mountainous inner Cyprus from various populations of cats around the island and became large and bushy-haired to cope with hunting comparatively large prey like rats, big lizards and snakes in cool, wet, mountain weather, though summers there are fairly hot and dry<sup id="cite_ref-WCC_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WCC-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Both WCF and TICA note that the thickness of the coat in purebred Aphrodite cats descended from this populations still varies seasonally). The other two organizations' breed summaries are generally consistent with this view,<sup id="cite_ref-WCF_intro_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WCF_intro-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TICA_intro_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TICA_intro-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though it is uncertain who first produced this account of their origin, or on what basis. It is unclear whether Cyprus cats are closely related to the broader <a href="/wiki/Aegean_cat" title="Aegean cat">Aegean cat</a> landrace of mainland and island <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a>. <a href="/wiki/Genetic_testing" title="Genetic testing">Genetic testing</a> to date <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1033199720">.mw-parser-output div.crossreference{padding-left:0}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">(see below)</span> has shown only that the Cyprus cats are distinct enough that a breed could be developed from them. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cyprus-Cat-Cape-Greco.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Cypriot Cat wandering around Cape Greco." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Cyprus-Cat-Cape-Greco.jpg/220px-Cyprus-Cat-Cape-Greco.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Cyprus-Cat-Cape-Greco.jpg/330px-Cyprus-Cat-Cape-Greco.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Cyprus-Cat-Cape-Greco.jpg/440px-Cyprus-Cat-Cape-Greco.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3024" data-file-height="4032" /></a><figcaption>Cypriot cat wandering around <a href="/wiki/Cape_Greco" title="Cape Greco">Cape Greco</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characteristics">Characteristics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cyprus_cat&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Characteristics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cyprus cats are somewhat thick-haired (from short-haired up to "semi-longhaired" in cat fanciers' jargon), and are an athletic and energetic variety. <a href="/wiki/Feral_cat" title="Feral cat">Feral populations</a> are found throughout the island of Cyprus, from mountainous and cooler regions to the lower, hotter areas near the coasts, including in the cities.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> As such, this cat has locally adapted to different climates / seasonal change; however, it may be more associated with the mountainous areas.<sup id="cite_ref-TICA_intro_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TICA_intro-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aphrodite_breed_development">Aphrodite breed development</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cyprus_cat&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Aphrodite breed development"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Breed of cat</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox biota"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above breed" style="background-color: #d3d3a4;">Aphrodite</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:CypursLongHairCatandShortHair.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/CypursLongHairCatandShortHair.jpg/220px-CypursLongHairCatandShortHair.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/CypursLongHairCatandShortHair.jpg/330px-CypursLongHairCatandShortHair.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/CypursLongHairCatandShortHair.jpg/440px-CypursLongHairCatandShortHair.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1935" data-file-height="1419" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">A semi-long-haired adult male</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Other names</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Aphrodite Giant, Aphrodite's Giant Longhair, Aphrodite's Giant Shorthair</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Origin</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #d3d3a4;"><span class="anchor" id="ibbs"></span>Breed standards</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/The_International_Cat_Association" title="The International Cat Association">TICA</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tica.org/phocadownload/apsaplstd_18.pdf">standard</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/World_Cat_Federation" title="World Cat Federation">WCF</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wcf.de/pdf-en/breed/Aphrodite-en-KH.pdf">standard</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #d3d3a4;">Notes</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div style="text-align: left;">TICA recognition is only preliminary.</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="background-color: #d3d3a4;"><span class="vernacular"><a href="/wiki/Cat" title="Cat">Domestic cat</a></span> (<span class="binominal"><i>Felis catus</i></span>)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Local breeders began in 2006 to attempt to establish a <a href="/wiki/Breed_standard" title="Breed standard">standardized breed</a> from local feral cats.<sup id="cite_ref-TICA_intro_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TICA_intro-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2008, a <a href="/wiki/World_Cat_Federation" title="World Cat Federation">World Cat Federation</a> (WCF) all-breeds judge visited Cyprus to work at a <a href="/wiki/Cat_show" title="Cat show">cat show</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> and was introduced to a breeder of <a href="/wiki/Purebred" title="Purebred">purebred</a> cats developed in this trial breeding program<sup id="cite_ref-TICA_intro_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TICA_intro-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> from the Cyprus cats. Considering the cats distinct, he wrote a <a href="/wiki/Breed_standard" title="Breed standard">standard of points</a> and named them <b>Aphrodite Giant</b>. The president and board members of WCF advised that these Aphrodite cats should be shown outside Cyprus to become better known within the <a href="/wiki/Cat_fancy" title="Cat fancy">cat fancy</a>,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> but did not immediately accept the nascent breed. Subsequently, a group of interested people in Cyprus decided to form a club, which was named the Cyprus Cats National Breed Association (CyCNBA), which applied for government approval and started functioning in late 2009. CyCNBA applied to affiliate to the WCF in April 2012.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="So what? This does not tell us whether they are part of WCF, only that they filed some paperwork. (November 2018)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In addition, it was agreed that a letter be sent to a leading specialist in cat genetics,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> <a href="/wiki/Leslie_A._Lyons" title="Leslie A. Lyons">Leslie A. Lyons</a> of <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Davis" title="University of California, Davis">University of California, Davis</a>, asking whether she would agree to <a href="/wiki/DNA_testing" class="mw-redirect" title="DNA testing">DNA-test</a> a selection of Cyprus cats to see whether it was possible to genetically define them as a breed. The professor, who intended shortly to begin a further study of <a href="/wiki/Turkish_Van" title="Turkish Van">Turkish Van</a> and <a href="/wiki/Turkish_Angora" title="Turkish Angora">Turkish Angora</a> cats (whose ancestry has long been disputed), agreed to study samples submitted from Cyprus. A total of 248 cats were studied, including a number of random-bred Cyprus cats from the Malcolm Cat Sanctuary, for comparison. "All cats were considered in one large analysis. The analysis partitioned the cats based solely on genetic variation, not by any other identification." (L. Lyons – 2 January 2012)<sup id="cite_ref-Breed_Implications_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Breed_Implications-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The January 2012 report concluded that "Cyprus cats are a distinct population within the Mediterranean" and that a "breed from Cyprus could be developed".<sup id="cite_ref-Breed_Implications_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Breed_Implications-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 1 July 2012, the cat became a fully recognised breed of the WCF, originally as just the <b>Aphrodite's Giant Longhair</b> (though it is actually in the organization's semi-longhaired division<sup id="cite_ref-WCF_semi_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WCF_semi-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) after the CyCNBA attended the WCF General Assembly in Gelsenkirchen, Germany and applied for recognition of the cats in April 2012.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Today, WCF also recognizes a short-haired variant.<sup id="cite_ref-WCF_intro_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WCF_intro-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 2017, <a href="/wiki/The_International_Cat_Association" title="The International Cat Association">The International Cat Association</a> (TICA) recognized the cats, under the name <b>Aphrodite</b>, as a "preliminary new breed", in its own breed group and with both shorthaired and semi-longhaired varieties.<sup id="cite_ref-TICA_intro_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TICA_intro-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some TICA members have started breeding programs for the Aphrodite in Europe, Asia, and the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-TICA_intro_9-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TICA_intro-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In breeder terminology, this constitutes a <a href="/wiki/Natural_breed" class="mw-redirect" title="Natural breed">natural or traditional breed</a><sup id="cite_ref-TICA_intro_9-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TICA_intro-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – one developed from local stock to preserve its key characteristics, rather than created by breeders to have new features. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Breed_standards">Breed standards</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cyprus_cat&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Breed standards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The WCF standard calls for the Aphrodite's Giant to be large, strong, and muscular but not <a href="/wiki/Cobby" title="Cobby">cobby</a>, and big-boned even as kittens. The cats may be shorthaired or semi-longhaired and of any colors other than <a href="/wiki/Point_coloration" class="mw-redirect" title="Point coloration">colorpoint</a> or <a href="/wiki/Cat_coat_genetics#Colorpoint_and_albinism" title="Cat coat genetics">mink</a> (which comes from the <a href="/wiki/Burmese_cat" title="Burmese cat">Burmese</a> gene), nor with any white spots if otherwise solid-colored. "In bicolour, non-regular colour setting is desired." The coat should be soft and wooly, and is expected to be longer and with an undercoat in winter, and always lacking any top coat except possibly on the back. In detail, WCF calls for muscular hips and shoulders; back legs slightly longer than front (a trait shared with another insular breed, the <a href="/wiki/Manx_cat" title="Manx cat">Manx</a>); medium-long, "well-plumed" tail, commensurate with body size (and visibly tapering in the shorthaired version); a long-triangular head with straight cheeks, long and straight muzzle, "strong" chin, rounded front of the face, slightly domed forehead and "a very slight dip under the height of the eyes"; wide-based, medium-large ears, forming an open V (rather than being straight upward); and olive-shaped, oblique-set eyes of any uniform color. Weight range is not specified.<sup id="cite_ref-WCF_intro_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WCF_intro-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WCF_std_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WCF_std-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>WCF has set no temperament or breeding rules for this breed, and defers on breeding points instead to the <a href="/wiki/World_Cat_Congress" title="World Cat Congress">World Cat Congress</a> (WCC),<sup id="cite_ref-WCF_semi_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WCF_semi-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which permits no <a href="/wiki/Out-crossing" class="mw-redirect" title="Out-crossing">out-crossing</a>, other than between the longhaired and shorthaired varieties of the breed. Only WCC (a confederation of national and international cat federations, which does not itself issue breed standards, just breeding regulations) uses the term <b>Aphrodite's Giant Shorthair</b> for the latter.<sup id="cite_ref-WCC_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WCC-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> WCC asks that judges disqualify smaller specimens of both, to preserve the large-boned nature of the breed.<sup id="cite_ref-WCC_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WCC-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Under the TICA definition, Aphrodites may be shorthaired or semi-longhaired and have any color and pattern, except they may not be colorpoint or mink and should not have a <a href="/wiki/Tuxedo_cat" class="mw-redirect" title="Tuxedo cat">"locket" spot</a> on the chest. The coat should be soft and lush and may seasonally vary in undercoat density (not required). They are "athletic, well-muscled, solid" and of medium to large build, but must have a gentle, non-aggressive temperament. Fully adult male weight range is 15–18 pounds (6.8–8.2 kg); female, 10–14 pounds (4.5–6.4 kg), which is heavy for a female cat. On finer points, the TICA standard calls for hips and shoulders of the same width; back legs slightly longer than front; an overall long-triangular, straight-cheeked head with a squared but not flattened muzzle and slight concavity between nose and brow leading to a slightly rounded forehead; wide-based, wide-set and fairly large ears forming an open V; oblique, olive-shaped eyes of any color; a full-width chin of normal depth; medium-long, tapering tail consistent with the body and coat (and plumed in the longhaired version). Jowls are permitted in adult males.<sup id="cite_ref-TICA_intro_9-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TICA_intro-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TICA_std_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TICA_std-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> No out-crossing to other cats is permitted (though the two varieties of Aphrodite are a single breed for TICA purposes).<sup id="cite_ref-TICA_std_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TICA_std-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>WCF and TICA sharply conflict with each other on the cat's speed of maturity, perhaps owing to different <a href="/wiki/Foundation_stock" title="Foundation stock">foundation stock</a> for their breed variants. The WCF standard says that they develop quickly,<sup id="cite_ref-WCF_intro_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WCF_intro-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while TICA says they are comparatively slow to mature (another trait shared with the Manx), taking three to five years to reach full size.<sup id="cite_ref-TICA_std_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TICA_std-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>TICA's overview of the breed describes them as affectionate and social and in some ways dog-like in behavior toward their keepers.<sup id="cite_ref-TICA_intro_9-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TICA_intro-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cyprus_cat&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-9500_years-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9500_years_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070303121828/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/04/0408_040408_oldestpetcat.html">"Oldest Known Pet Cat? 9,500-year-old Burial Found on Cyprus"</a>. <i>National Geographic News</i>. <a href="/wiki/National_Geographic_Society" title="National Geographic Society">National Geographic Society</a>. 2004. 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