10 Interesting Facts About the Norwegian Forest Cat Cats 101 Norsk Skogkatt Check out this Channel: Jade and Pearl - Norwegian Forest Cat's https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-ljrCincPhBjS02SNXzTyQ Our Official Website - http://www.animalfacts.us Viking Norwegian Forest Cat Art Men's O-neck T Shirts http://www.animalfacts.us/viking-cat Norwegian Forest Cats and Kittens Care, Nutrition, Behavior, Personality, Health, Training, Breeders and more http://www.animalfacts.us/norwegian-forest-cat-book The Norwegian Forest cat (Norwegian: Norsk skogkatt or Norsk skaukatt) is a breed of domestic cat originating in Northern Europe. This natural breed is adapted to a very cold climate, with a top coat of glossy, long, water-shedding hairs and a wooly undercoat for insulation. Although this is uncertain, the breed's ancestors may have been a landrace of short-haired cats brought to Norway by the Vikings around 1000 AD, who may also have brought with them long-haired cats, like those ancestral to the modern Siberian and Turkish Angora breeds. During World War II, the breed became nearly extinct until efforts by the Norwegian Forest Cat Club helped the breed by creating an official breeding program. It was registered as a breed with the European Fédération Internationale Féline in the 1970s, when a local cat fancier, Carl-Fredrik Nordane, took notice of the breed and made efforts to register it. Currently, the Norwegian Forest breed is very popular in Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and France. It is a big, strong cat, similar to the Maine Coon breed, with long legs, a bushy tail, and a sturdy body. The breed is very good at climbing since they have strong claws. The lifespan is usually 14 to 16 years, though kidney and heart diseases have been reported in the breed. Specifically, in this breed, complex rearrangements of glycogen branching enzyme (GBE1) can cause a perinatal hypoglycemic collapse and a late-juvenile-onset neuromuscular degeneration in glycogen storage disease type IV. The Norwegian Forest cat is adapted to survive Norway's cold weather.[1][2] Its ancestors may include black and white shorthair cats brought to Norway from Great Britain some time after 1000 AD by the Vikings, and longhaired cats brought to Norway by Crusaders. These cats could have reproduced with farm and feral stock and may have eventually evolved into the modern-day Norwegian Forest breed.[3][4][5] The Siberian and the Turkish Angora, longhaired cats from Russia and Turkey, respectively, are also possible ancestors of the breed.[3] Norse legends refer to the skogkatt as a "mountain-dwelling fairy cat with an ability to climb sheer rock faces that other cats could not manage."[6] Since the Norwegian Forest cat is a very adept climber,[7] author Claire Bessant believes that the s ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHjvci1UeqY

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