Cat Sizes.. Big Cats, Median Cats, Nominal (Small Domestic) and Micro Cats..

Hi WWW

this classification has annoyed me for sometime.. that there is no central classification for cat sizes.. except the eponymous 'Big Cats'..


Big Cats:
Lions
Tigers
Panthers
Leopards
Cheetahs
Puma & American Puma (Mountain Lion)

Median Cats:
Eurasian Lynx
American Lynx (Bobcat)
Canadian Lynx
Caracal
Serval
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Savannah (hybrid Serval)
Norwegian Forest Cat
Maine Coon
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Ocelot (the smallest Median Cat)

Nominal Cats:

Too many breeds to list, however to generalize:
Scottish Wildcat (the largest afaik)
Feral
Tabby

While the three Median size breeds above are domesticated, there are more for Nominal size breeds.

Micro Cats:
Sand Cats (natural and wild Micro Cats)
Black-Footed Cats (smallest Micro Cats, endangered, wild)

Domestic Nominal breeding is done to micro-size cats, however is it harmful to cats. It would be better to domesticate a group of Sand Cats.

Micro Cats are again as small as the distance between each of the classifications.Even when they are adults, they look asif~ large nominal kittens.


* originally wrote,  'Tigers.. including Panthers and Leopards the close cousins of the Tiger' but maybe it's more pleasant to have them separate.

*These three being the domesticated Median Cats.