🇹🇭 Suphalak (Thong Daeng)
Thai cat breed
- Origin
- Thailand. In the Tamra Maew it is the copper cat whose verse promises protection "against all evil". 📎 Clutterbuck 2008 · Cabinet magazine · British Library Or 16797 · on Wikimedia Commons
- Coat & genes
- Solid copper-brown all over, with amber eyes. No published study has pinned down the genes behind the colour yet.
- Registries
- Recognised by the World Cat Federation (WCF) in August 2024. CFA, TICA, FIFe and GCCF do not list it. 📎 Thailand PRD · Suphalak recognised by WCF (2024) · Bangkok Post · Suphalak gains global recognition
- Did you know
- One of only a handful of the Tamra's cat types still bred today. 📎 Nation Thailand 2023 · 4 of 17 auspicious cats survive
- Today
- One of the five Thai cats the Thai Cabinet named as national-identity animals on 18 Nov 2025. 📎 Thai Government · five Thai cats (18 Nov 2025) · Thailand PRD · 5 native cats national identity
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Sources
- Clutterbuck 2008 · Cabinet magazine
- British Library Or 16797 · on Wikimedia Commons
- Thailand PRD · Suphalak recognised by WCF (2024)
- Bangkok Post · Suphalak gains global recognition
- Nation Thailand 2023 · 4 of 17 auspicious cats survive
- Thai Government · five Thai cats (18 Nov 2025)
- Thailand PRD · 5 native cats national identity
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