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Key facts
- Common nicknames
- Norwegian : skogkatt , Norwegian : skaukatt
- Origin
- Norway
- Cfa
- standard
- Fife
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- Tica
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- Wcf
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- Acf
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- Acfa caa
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- Cca afc
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- Gccf
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via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Norwegian Forest Cat (Norwegian: norsk skogkatt or norsk skaukatt) is a pedigreed breed of domestic cat originating in Northern Europe. This landrace breed is adapted to a very cold climate, with a top coat of long, glossy hair and a woolly undercoat for insulation. The breed's ancestors may have been a landrace breed of short-haired cats brought to Norway about 1000 AD by the Vikings, who may also have brought with them long-haired cats, like those ancestral to the modern Siberian and Turkish Angora.
During World War II, the Norwegian Forest Cat was nearly extinct; then the Norwegian Forest Cat Club's breeding program increased the cat's number. It was registered as a breed with the European Fédération Internationale Féline (FIFe) in the 1970s, when a Norwegian cat fancier took notice of the breed and made efforts to selectively breed and register it.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Norwegian Forest Cat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.