What's a pedigree?

What's a pedigree?

A pedigree--and when I say that, I'm not talking about petting to the degree that your cat likes it--I'm talking about a cat's "coat of arms" if you will. These are blue bloods; these are the cats that are all Siamese or all Abyssinian, if you will. And to earn that pedigree status, they have to be registered with cat registries like the Cat Fancier Association or the International Cat Association.Pedigree cats are sort of like the gold seal of that breed. They have all the looks that is wanted in that breed. You can have a Siamese that can be a purebred, but you can have a show-quality cat that's a pedigree. And that cat tends not be spayed or neutered so that they pass on those good quality genes for the next generation.