The Cat Fancier’s Association – which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year – has just published the statistics of its feline book for the year 2006. This book – the largest in the world – gives the general trend of the feline purebred population in the United States.
Here is the ranking of the year 2005 of the most popular breeds on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. This ranking is based on the registrations realised between the 1st of January 2005 and the 31st of December 2005 by the genealogic services of the CFA, the largest feline federation in the world.
1st Persian
2nd Maine Coon
3rd Exotic Shorthair
4th Siamese
5th Abyssinian
6th Ragdoll
7th Birman
8th American Shorthair
9th Oriental
10th Sphinx
11th Norwegian Forest Cat
12th Burmese
13th Cornish Rex
14th Devon Rex
15th Tonkinese
16th British Shorthair
17th Scottish Fold
18th Ocicat
19th Russian Blue
20th Egyptian Mau
Source CFA Statistics
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