Norwegian Forest Cat

The Norwegian Forest Cat is native to Northern Europe, and adapted to a very cold climate. In Norway they are known as Skaukatts or more properly, the Norsk Skogkatt (literally, Norwegian Forest Cat).

The breed , Pomeranian is a very old one which occurred as a natural adaptation to the cold climate of the region, but it was not regarded as anything other than a standard , Canadian Horse house-cat until the late 1930s, when a small number of 'Skaukatts' were shown in Germany and received very favourably by the judges. World War II brought an abrupt end to the fledgling Norwegian show cat , Russian Blue industry, and the breed , Home Page Links Footer was forgotten until the 1970s. The cats , Cirneco dell'Etna Dog are now being bred and shown in several countries , Himalayan Cat including the United States. The first international association to accept the breed , Australian Cattle Dog was FIFe, in 1977.

Norwegian Forest cats , Norwegian Forest have a thick fluffy double-layered coat, , Monitors tufted ears , Marwari Horse and a long bushy tail , Schipperke to protect them against the cold. Their coat , Shetland and Highland Ponies is essentially waterproof due to its coarse outer layer and dense underlay. They are very large cats , Blue and Gold Macaw with adult males weighing 6 to 10 kg (13 to 22 lb), while females , Home Page Links Footer are approximately half that size. Their hind legs are longer than their front legs. They are intelligent, , Blue and Gold Macaw playful cats , Arabian Horse that enjoy human company. The nickname of "Wegie" began in the United States and is a shortened version of the word Norwegian.