Why do Oriental Shorthairs honk?
Oriental Shorthairs honk because it is a slight strange version of the feline meow. Let’s call it a meow-honk. All cats have their own version of this classic cat sound.
Oriental Shorthair
Lithe, svelte and impressive red coated Oriental Shorthair
This is an excellent cat picture because it shows off the Oriental Shorthair’s lithe and svelte body conformation which the breeders so prize and which is embedded in the CFA breed standard. His coat is very fine as well: red, spotted tabby, which I think is amazing. GENERAL: the ideal Oriental is a svelte …
Oriental cat satisfies CFA breed standard for leg length
Cats of the Oriental breed (shorthair and longhair) are good photographic subjects because they have interesting bodies. That’s not a good reason to breed them with exceptional long legs, huge ears and long faces (extreme breeding) but they do look interesting in front of the camera. Of all the breeds there are probably more …
Picture of wise Oriental Shorthair
He has the distinct appearance of a wise man in his late fifties or sixties. I am stereotyping and I apoloogise. He has probably taken early retirement having been the managing director or chairman of a medium-sized company. He was educated at Oxford University and studied Classics. You can see that I think he …
Picture of a tiny, dark chocolate Oriental Shorthair kitten with huge ears and sharp claws sitting in a hand
The Oriental SH is known for slenderness and long legs and, yes, large ears but this strange looking individual has really odd ears. The breeders have altered the anatomy of this cat to the point where the the animal looks unlike a cat as we know it. I know breeders want to take selective …
Young Oriental Shorthair with huge bat ears
Well, what can you say? The ears are weird. I know that the breed standard for the Oriental Shorthair insists on large ears but this looks odd but admittedly the cat is young so the ears may look smaller relative to the body when the cat grows up. “EARS: strikingly large, pointed, wide at …
Outstanding Looking Oriental Shorthair Cat
If you like looking at interesting domestic cats this fella might interest you. He has to be an Oriental Shorthair although the photographer, Helmi Flick, does not describe the cat on her FB webpage. He is male because in another picture this is confirmed. He looks male as it happens. His spotted tabby coat …
The Hidden Wildcat in the Oriental Breed
In an extraordinary piece of research, Sarah Hartwell has discovered that there has been a relatively recent influx of wild cat genes into the Oriental breed. Read about it on this page.
