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This fun-loving cat brings good luck to everyone who is fortunate enough to live with him — or so it’s believed in his homeland of Japan. It must be true, because who wouldn’t enjoy spending time with a happy, playful cat who makes friends with everyone. His coat can be short or long and comes in calico as well as other colors and patterns. As the basis for traditional Japanese ceramic cats placed in doorways as a symbol of good luck -- those with a raised paw, beckoning to visitors -- the Japanese Bobtail is well-known and very popular.
The Japanese Bobtail is surrounded by many legends and traditions. A tricolored cat with a beckoning paw and a bobbed tail is a symbol of good fortune in Japan, and the Bobtail has been depicted in art and described in writing in that country for at least 1,000 years. He is a natural breed, not one that was man-made.Japanese Bobtails were first imported to the United States in 1968. Shorthaired Bobtails were recognized by the Cat Fanciers Association in 1976, followed by longhaired Bobtails in 1993.
