All articles tagged with "Persian-Derived"
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 Exotic Shorthair is often described as the "lazy man's Persian" a description that is simultaneously reductive and entirely accurate. It was created by crossing Persian cats with American Shorthairs and other shorthaired breeds specifically to produce a cat with the Persian's distinctive round
