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[3] [4] An "Oriental Shorthairs International" was formed in 1973, [2] and Peter Markstein presented the breed to the 1976 Annual Cat Fanciers Association, at the same time as the Havana Brown was presented by Joe Bittaker. [5] In 1977 the Oriental Shorthair was accepted by the Cat Fanciers' Association for championship
This breed is the cousin of the Siamese cat, though Oriental Shorthairs can come in a wide variety of coat colors. These cats extremely affectionate and social, and they may even start a conversation!
The term Javanese cat was coined by a Helen Smith of MerryMews Cattery circa 1950, [4] [5] but for a different variety she was working on. It is unknown if she had ever traveled to Indonesia. The name was derived from the tradition of using the names of the countries and islands of south-east Asia for Oriental cat breeds. [6]
The Serengeti is a hybrid breed of domestic cat, first developed by crossing a Bengal (domestic and wild hybrid) and an Oriental Shorthair.Created by biologist [1] Karen Sausman of Kingsmark Cattery in California in 1994, the breed is still in the development stages, but the ultimate aim is to produce a cat that looks similar to a serval, without using any recent wild cat blood.
Oriental Longhairs have the same wedge-shaped heads as modern Siamese cats. Oriental Longhairs feature a long, tubular, Oriental-style body with a longer silky coat.The range of possible coat colours includes everything from self-coloured (black, blue, chocolate, lilac, cinnamon, caramel, fawn, red, cream and apricot), tortoiseshell, smoke (silver undercoat), shaded or tipped, tabby or white.
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However, by the 1960s, some were re-introducing Siamese stock and producing less "Persian-style" cats, [2] In the 1980s, a concerted effort to re-establish the breed along more formally Persian lines ultimately caused the breed to be merged into Persian as a variant in some registries (e.g. in 1984 by CFA), and a decline in the "old" or Siamese ...
The breed standards of various cat fancier organisations may treat the Himalayan and Exotic Shorthair (or simply Exotic) as variants of the Persian or as separate breeds. The Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA) treats the Himalayan as a colour-pattern class of both the Persian and the Exotic, which have separate but nearly identical standards ...