Abby The Cat: My First Flight

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Lipinski MJ, Froenicke L, Baysac KC, Billings NC, Leutenegger CM, Levy AM, Longeri M, Niini T, Ozpinar H, Slater MR, Pedersen NC, Lyons LA (January 2008). Abyssinians are a popular breed thanks in large part to their unusual intelligence and generally extroverted, playful, willful personalities.

Although regarded as comparatively obscure in the past as a breed compared to others, the Abyssinian ranked in 2016 among the top five most popular breeds by The Cat Fancier Association and The International Cat Association. Familial amyloidosis in cats: Siamese and Abyssinian AA proteins differ in primary sequence and pattern of deposition". I got Adam (God bless his soul) to take the garbage out on his way to work (He has to be to work a full hour later than me). There's two stupid jokes in there: 1) The nickname for Tabitha is "Tabby", which is the kind of cat she is, and the nickname for Catherine is "Cat", hence, "Tabby Cat" and 2) Ballou goes along with the nickname for Catherine, "Cat", to form "Cat Ballou", the name of a great old movie starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin. I'd hoped to keep more original parts--the cranks which have the nice detail of Raleigh herons integrated into chain ring (but with 44 teeth wasn't suitable for fixed gear with 20" wheels)--and the fork which with 26tpi would make headset installation problematic (notice the nylon bushing Raleigh used at top of head tube in lieu of bearings).So Adam and I were on our way home tonight from the Josh Ritter show (so, so good) and saw a bunch of Abby-like figures in the driveway to my house. However, its true origin — according to genetic studies — is likely to have been the coast of the Indian Ocean in parts of Southeast Asia, and its introduction to Abyssinia (and others) was through colonialists and merchants stopping through Calcutta. Abyssinian kittens are born with dark coats that gradually lighten as they mature, usually over several months. Other variants have been introduced by outcrossing to the Burmese and other shorthaired breeds, notably blue (on a warm beige base) and fawn (on a softer creamy peach base).

for all breeds studied, and has genetic markers common to both Southeast Asian and Western breeds indicating that cats from both Asia and Europe were used to create the breed. The Abyssinian / æ b ɪ ˈ s ɪ n i ən/ is a breed of domestic short-haired cat with a distinctive "ticked" tabby coat, in which individual hairs are banded with different colors.The Abyssinian has had severe problems with blindness caused by a hereditary retinal degeneration due to mutations in the rdAc gene. She could hold her own against the four canine members of our family and on more than one occassion I caught her eyeballing the geckos. With the widespread availability of rdAc mutation detection tests and services, such as those provided by the UC Davis Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, it is possible to reduce the disease frequency in all populations of Abyssinian.

The base color should be as clear as possible; any extensive intermingling with grey is considered a serious fault. Each hair has a light base with three or four bands of additional color growing darker towards the tip.

Joshua has written that the " dog-like attachment to the owners" of Abyssinian and Burmese cats causes "greater dependence on human contacts". Various other color combinations are in development, including the "torbie", in which a patched tortoiseshell pattern in any of these colors is visible under the tabby banding. The source of the name is because the first "Abyssinians" exhibited in shows in England were reported to have been imported to England from Ethiopia, whose name was formerly Abyssinia.