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The Tonkinese is a deliberately created hybrid breed developed in Canada in the 1960s by crossing Siamese and Burmese cats with the intention of producing a cat that balanced the best qualities of both parent breeds. The result is a medium-sized, muscular cat with an aqua-eyed mink coat pattern that
The Oriental Shorthair is, in genetic terms, a Siamese in any color, the same breed, the same body, the same voice, the same personality, simply freed from the colorpoint restriction that limits the Siamese to dark points on a pale body. Where the Siamese standard permits only four point colors, t
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 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
