All articles tagged with "Colorpoint-Cats"
The Javanese is the colorpoint variant of the Oriental Longhair, sharing the Balinese's semi-long silky coat and the Oriental Shorthair's extended range of non-traditional point colors. In practical terms, a Javanese is a long-haired Siamese-type cat that comes in point colors beyond the traditiona
The Himalayan is a deliberate hybrid of the Persian and the Siamese, a cat with the Persian's long, flowing coat and cobby body structure combined with the Siamese's colorpoint coloring and vivid blue eyes. It was the product of a systematic breeding experiment begun in the 1930s by Virginia Cobb a
The Birman, known as the Sacred Cat of Burma, is one of the most visually striking pedigree cat breeds in existence, a colorpoint semi-longhaired cat with the distinctive feature that separates it from every other colorpoint breed: pure white paws, called gloves, on all four feet. The white gloves
The Balinese is the long-haired Siamese, a breed that carries the same genetics, body type, and personality as the Siamese, with the single addition of a recessive gene that produces a semi-long, silky coat. The two breeds are genetically identical except at the coat-length locus, and understanding
