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The Turkish Angora was recognised as a distinct breed in Europe by the 17th century. [3] However, there is a strong connection between Angoras and Persians. Charles Catton, in the 1788 book Animals Drawn from Nature and Engraved in Aqua-tinta, gave “Persian cat” and “Angora cat” as alternative names for the same breed. [4]
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.
Called simply the Turkish cat at this point, [7] the name was changed in 1979 in the UK (1985 in the US) to Turkish Van [2] [8] to better distance the breed from the Turkish Angora cat (originally called simply Angora, [1]: 35 an old spelling of Ankara). The Turkish Van began to be imported into America in the 1970s.
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The British Shorthair is the pedigree version of the traditional British domestic cat, with a distinctively stocky body, thick coat, and broad face.The most familiar colour variant is the "British Blue", with a solid grey-blue coat, pineapple eyes, and a medium-sized tail.
The gene that causes the color to be restricted to the points is a recessive gene; therefore, the general population of the cats of Siam were largely self-colored (solid). When the cats from Siam were bred, the pointed cats were eventually registered as Siamese, while the others were referred to as "non-blue eyed Siamese" or "foreign shorthair".