‘Flame point’ is an alternative name for red point while Himalayan is an alternative name for a long-haired Persian. A flame point Himalayan is a red pointed long-haired Persian cat as shown in the photographs below: Sometimes people shorten ‘Himalayan’ to ‘Himmie’. The term ‘flame’ is only used instead of red when it occurs …
Thanks to a microchip, a blue-eyed Himalayan cat missing since 2015 has been reunited with his owner in Anchorage, Alaska. Winter went missing three and a half years ago when he disappeared from his new adoptive home on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. That was in August 2015. He’d only been in his new home with …
This is hardly believable but the source is reliable. Delilah, a two-year-old purebred Himalayan cat (pointed Persian) was abandoned in a locked apartment. Yes, it is hard to believe that a cat owner could walk away from their cat in such a manner. It appears that neither food nor water was put down for …
Both the Persian and the Himalayan cats are breeds known as brachycephalic. This, as you may know, means a skull and face which is, in a general sense, round. In the Persian and Himalayan cat it means that the face is, in fact, flat. The face is compressed. In both dogs and cats (and …
This is interesting. There is genuine interest by the puma to interact with the Himalayan cat (a purebred pointed Persian) and vice versa. The Himalayan does not look frightened. One factor for than may be due to the double glazed window between them! There are actually two cats. The other one, a moggie, joins …
A Helmi Flick cat picture. Salvador Dali had an outrageous moustache in later life. This cute seal pointed Persian (called a Himalayan cat in America) has whiskers that remind me of Dali’s moustache. That might sound odd but each to their own, I say. Or in France, chacun son truc. Here is a picture …
Himalayan Cat Picture Another fine Himalayan cat picture by Helmi Flick. This is a flame pointed Persian cat. Her name is “Cheri”. She is a modern or contemporary Persian. You probably know that the are two distinct types of Persian or Himalayan cat, (1) ultra typed (extreme bred) and (2) traditional. I have used …
Himalayan Cat Rescue is a subject that interests concerned cat lovers/fanciers so I decided to build this short page on the subject. Why short? Well, because I have already covered the subject of Persian cat rescue in detail, both in respect of the world (but almost entirely the USA) and for the UK. As …
