{"topic_id":"companion_breed_standard_nebelung_cat","category":"companion-breed-standard","context":"---\ntopic_id: companion_breed_standard_nebelung_cat\ncategory: companion-breed-standard\ntitle: \"Nebelung — breed standard (TICA: size, coat, temperament, type)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"TICA (The International Cat Association) official breed-standard text for Nebelung, saved to source_file; C1 substring-verified. Pulled 2026-08-02.\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/breed-standard/nebelung_combined.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-08-02\ntokens_estimated: 0\nverification:\n  method: substring_match\n  claims: 32\n  passed: 32\n  date: 2026-08-02\nrecovered: false\npath: companion-breed-standard/companion_breed_standard_nebelung_cat/01_companion_breed_standard_nebelung_cat.md\nsource_document: \"TICA (The International Cat Association)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"TICA (The International Cat Association)\"\n  title: \"Nebelung — breed standard (TICA: size, coat, temperament, type)\"\n  url: \"https://tica.org\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-08-02\"\n  ref: \"Official breed standards (merged registry PDFs)\"\n  doc_type: \"official kennel-club breed standards\"\n  needs_review: false\n---\n\n# Nebelung — breed standard (TICA: size, coat, temperament, type)\n\nSource: first-hand TICA (The International Cat Association) text, saved to `source_file`; every claim below is a C1 byte-substring of it.\n\n## Claims\n\n- `=== TICA STANDARD: Nebelung ===`\n- `Nebelung www.tica.org`\n- `Evoking visions of creatures rising from the mists, the Nebelung is a longhaired cat with a foreign body, wide-set`\n- `green eyes and a silky blue coat frosted with silver draping the body. The name Nebelung is derived from the`\n- `German word for mist or fog, Nebel, and a medieval Germanic saga the Nibelungenlied and is intended to`\n- `represent the cat's distinctive silky blue coat. This relatively new and rare breed is intended to resemble an ideal`\n- `vision of early nineteenth century longhairs that may have had their origins in Russia.`\n- `Cora Cobb (Nebelheim) developed the Nebelung breed and attained its recognition in TICA. The first registered Nebelungs were Siegfried, born`\n- `in 1984, and named for the murdered dragon slayer in the epic Germanic poem, and Brunhilde, born in 1985, and named for the Icelandic queen`\n- `in the same poem. Siegfried's mother was a black domestic shorthair named Elsa belonging to Cora's son, Karl, and Siegfried's father was a`\n- `longhair resembling a black Angora. Siegfried was the only blue longhair kitten-a beautiful, large kitten with long legs, long tail and a medium`\n- `length coat. Five months later a second litter was born with another longhaired blue but this time it was a female that Cora named Brunhilde. Her`\n- `coat was longer and lighter than Siegfried's. These two cats were the foundation of the new breed. Siegfried and Bruhilde had their first litter in`\n- `1986 and shortly afterwards, in 1987, with the help of Dr. Solveig Pflueger, Cora applied to TICA for New Breed status (NBC). The Russian Blue was`\n- `designated as an outcross for the new breed and it continued to allow the addition of foundation cats as an important way of developing the gene`\n- `pool. The new breed needed a unique standard and one was developed based on an interpretation of early 19th century cats imported to England.`\n- `The late 1980s saw the beginnings of the cat fancy in Eastern Europe and a redevelopment of the Russian Blue created an influx of foundation cats`\n- `to that breed. Some of these new foundation Russian Blues carried the longhair gene and provided a valuable new source of bloodlines to help`\n- `develop the Nebelung breed. TICA recognized the Nebelung for championship competition in 1997.`\n- `Devoted to their owners and family members, the highly intelligent Nebelungs can be shy with`\n- `strangers and young children. Kittens need time to adjust to their new home and should be`\n- `allowed to make their own advances to their new family. As the new family member settles in,`\n- `the playful Nebelung will becoming a loving companion cuddling into a lap for petting and`\n- `often following its owners from room to room to remain in their company. They are active,`\n- `affectionate, good-natured cats that prefer the company of their own family to that of visiting`\n- `A medium-sized cat, the Nebelung is a sturdy, well-muscled cat with a long body draped with a silky medium-length blue coat shimmering with`\n- `silver at the tips. Nebelungs resemble the type of longhaired cats imported from Russia in the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries. The tail is`\n- `long with a full thick plume gracefully balancing the long body. The ears are large in proportion to the head and continue the elegant lines of the`\n- `head. They have wide-set eyes that impart a look of intelligence to the face and range in color from yellowish green to green. The coat is medium in`\n- `length but dense so regular combing is a must to prevent tangles and mats. The silver tips to the ends of the hair give the cat's silky-soft coat a`\n- `luminous, misty aura that adds to its allure and the mystery associated with a mythical creature rising from the mists.`\n- `TICA - The International Cat Association`\n","sources":["companion-breed-standard — Nebelung — breed standard (TICA: size, coat, temperament, type) (retrieved 2026-08-02)"],"source":{"authority":"companion-breed-standard","title":"Nebelung — breed standard (TICA: size, coat, temperament, type)","url":"https://tica.org","retrieved":"2026-08-02","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"TICA (The International Cat Association)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/breed-standard/nebelung_combined.txt"},"source_document":"TICA (The International Cat Association)","source_file":"pdf-raw/breed-standard/nebelung_combined.txt","tokens_estimated":1027,"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."}