Toybob Cats 101 : Fun Facts & Myths
Channel: Kitten Life
Date: 2021-03-05

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In today's video, we are going to talk about some interesting facts and myths about the Toybob cat.

The Toybob cat is often referred to as one of the smallest of all cat breeds, no bigger than a 3-6-month-old kitten of a normally developed domestic cat, with a short strong, and muscular body, short bobbed tail consisting of several kinked vertebras. It is worth mentioning that the breed is not a miniaturized version of an established breed of cat.

The Toybob is a naturally small bobbed-tailed cat that originated in Russia and existing there for over three decades. The Toybob can be found in all colors and have either a short or semi-long coat. The Toybob Shorthair is more common at this time as not all professional cat associations have yet approved the Toybob Longhair.


1. TOYBOB CAT'S HISTORY.

The Toybob cat was first documented in the Rostov Region of Russia in 1983 when Ms. Elena Krasnichenko adopted a stray seal-point cat from outside her home. By her accounts, this cat looked very much like a Traditional Siamese cat, except for its kinked shortened tail.

It later bred to another bobtailed seal-point Domestic Shorthair female, and in 1988, the breeding of these two cats produced an unusually small bobbed tail kitten, named “Kutciy,” which became one of the foundation cats for the breed Krasnichenko called “Skif-Thai-Don”.

By the late 1990s, the Toybob became scarce, and a breeder from the Ural Region of Russia, Alexis Abramchuk of Si-Savat cattery had begun to broaden the breed’s limited gene pool by adding Domestic cats. When Si-Savat discontinued their Toybob breeding program, local Ural breeder, Natalya Fedyaeva of Little Angel cattery, acquired from Abramchuk, a small male “Gavrila,” elsewhere, two females, all three from the Skif-Thai-Don line and began her restoration of the breed.

Fedyaeva had observed that cats of very similar phenotype to the Toybob were spotted living locally around barns and streets in that region. Some of these native cats were also of small size with kinked tails or kinked bobbed tails but seen in colors and patterns other than seal-point.

Fedyaeva, along with other local breeders, continued to expand the Toybob cat’s initially small genetic pool by adding those found domestic cats as well as other similarly phenotyped breeds. Fedyaeva began to refer to her cats as “Scyth-Toy-Bob” to differentiate them from the Skif-Thai-Don and exhibited them in the World Cat Federation in their Unrecognized Breed category.

In the past 30 years of the breed’s development, the Toybob has gone through much rope untangling to get it under one general breed name finally. The breed has been known under several different names and is a significant component of its history. It was in 1994 when the Toybob breed name was suggested by Russian feline book author and WCF judge Dr.  Olga Mironova to be given to all the cats in development.

The breed expanded internationally when in 2004, Toybobs were imported to the United States by a Burmese cat breeder, and four years later the Toybob entered Experimental status within The International Cat Association.

In 2014, the majority of TICA registered Toybob breeders under the direction of Dr. Anna Gromova, DVM began to work in close cooperation, focusing on advancing the breed’s recognition. A year later the “International Toybob Cat Club” was formed; with the dedication to promote the breed worldwide, mentor new breeders and unify the Toybob standards across all Cat Fancy associations.

The Toybob, as well became The Cat Fanciers’ Association's 45th recognized breed when it was registered in their Miscellaneous Class. Currently, the Toybob is quickly expanding worldwide, and there are Toybob breeding programs all over its native Russia, throughout the United States, throughout Europe, Israel, and Japan. 

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