{"topic_id":"companion_breed_standard_peterbald_cat","category":"companion-breed-standard","context":"---\n\ntopic_id: companion_breed_standard_peterbald_cat\ncategory: companion-breed-standard\ntitle: \"Peterbald — breed standard (TICA: size, coat, temperament, type)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"TICA (The International Cat Association) official breed-standard factual data for Peterbald, extracted verbatim (field values + section outline) from source_file; C1 substring-verified. Pulled 2026-08-02.\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/breed-standard/peterbald_combined.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-08-02\ntokens_estimated: 0\nverification:\n  method: paraphrase\n  claims: 2\n  passed: 2\n  date: 2026-08-05\nrecovered: false\npath: companion-breed-standard/companion_breed_standard_peterbald_cat/01_companion_breed_standard_peterbald_cat.md\nsource_document: \"TICA (The International Cat Association)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"TICA (The International Cat Association)\"\n  title: \"Peterbald — breed standard (TICA: size, coat, temperament, type)\"\n  url: \"https://www.tica.org\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-08-02\"\n  ref: \"Official breed standards (factual data points + section outline extracted verbatim)\"\n  doc_type: \"official kennel-club breed standards\"\n  needs_review: false\nlicense: paraphrase\ncopyright_note: \"Sources (CFA/TICA breed-standard texts) are not openly licensed; per COPYRIGHT_POLICY §3 every claim is a paraphrased derived fact summary (numbers and proper nouns preserved, sentences rewritten), not a verbatim quotation.\"\nauthority_tier: T1\nauthority_tier_basis: \"T1:kennel-club-breed-standard\"\nauthority_tier_date: 2026-08-05\n---\n\n# Peterbald — breed standard (TICA: size, coat, temperament, type)\n\n## Claims\n\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* The first Peterbalds were born in Russia in January 1994, when an Oriental Shorthair named RADMA VOM JAGERHOF was bred to a light-boned Oriental-type Donskoy called AFINOGUEN MYTH; that litter showed the breed's hair-losing trait is dominant, unlike the recessive gene of the Canadian Sphynx.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* The head is a long inverted triangle: skull to muzzle forms a wedge, with a flat forehead and flat high cheekbones; the straight nose and flat forehead make two distinct planes meeting over the eyes at a convex angle.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Ears are extremely large and pointed, broad where they meet the head and turned slightly outward; eyes are medium, near-almond, set obliquely and flush with the skull, spaced no less than one eye-width apart, and their colour is not tied to coat colour.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* The body is medium, long and graceful with shoulders and hips of equal width; the long legs are medium-fine boned with straight forelegs and hind legs a little longer than the front, oval feet bearing long prominent toes, and a long strong whippy tail.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* The coat is the breed's defining feature. A cat may be born fully bald or carry fine velvet-like residual hair on the ears, muzzle, feet, lower legs and tail. Basic types include naked (elastic skin, sticky to silky), chamois (dry peach-fuzz), flock (soft velour without guard hair), brush (sparse wiry, sometimes showing skin) and straight (normal hair that never sheds, since these cats lack the loss gene and cannot be shown).\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Because the dominant loss gene acts over time, a coated kitten may shed hair from the head or nape down toward the tail and look transitional while being shown, possibly regaining coat and changing several times before settling into a final coat by age three; lockets are allowed and no coat type is preferred. Long-haired or normal-coated cats are withheld all awards.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Categories are Traditional and pointed; Divisions and Colours are All. Permissible outcrosses are the whole Siamese Breed Group (Siamese, Balinese, Oriental Shorthair, Oriental Longhair) and the Donskoy.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* The ideal is an elegant, intelligent cat of sturdy long lean build moving gracefully. Temperament must be unchallenging; a definite challenge disqualifies. Disqualifications include a protruding sternum, a visible tail fault, crossed eyes, and any artificial hair removal.\n","sources":["companion-breed-standard — Peterbald — breed standard (TICA: size, coat, temperament, type) (retrieved 2026-08-02)"],"source":{"authority":"companion-breed-standard","title":"Peterbald — breed standard (TICA: size, coat, temperament, type)","url":"https://www.tica.org","retrieved":"2026-08-02","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"TICA (The International Cat Association)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/breed-standard/peterbald_combined.txt"},"source_document":"TICA (The International Cat Association)","source_file":"pdf-raw/breed-standard/peterbald_combined.txt","trust":{"authority_tier":"T1","fidelity":"paraphrase","license":"paraphrase","display_grade":"C"},"tokens_estimated":759,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}