Picture of a Vampire Cat
Oriental Shorthair The Oriental Shorter is a cat which is very much predisposed to looking like a vampire although there has to be extreme breeding to create those large, bat-like ears which in the...
Category: Oriental Shorthair
Infographic about the Oriental Shorthair
An infographic about the Oriental Shorthair (shortened to the ‘OSH’). When I think about the Oriental Shorthair I think of an elegant, slender cat with a long face, which is a member of the...
Brown Ticked Oriental Shorthair Kitten
“No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.” – Leo Dworken – he was an...
Oriental Shorthair with a hint of kangaroo
Jubei is an Oriental Shorthair with a hint of kangaroo in his appearance. I am thinking of his long and proud face. He is a very handsome cat. He looks bigger than he is...
Oriental Shorthair with puppy ears
This is a picture and video of an Oriental Shorthair cat with floppy, puppy ears. The cat looks as if he might be a cross between an Oriental Shorthair and a Scottish Fold but...
Oriental Shorthair shows his webbed feet and claws
Уже стерилизована, ищет дом Posted by Маша Иванова on Monday, March 29, 2021 Note: videos on this site are typically made by people other than me and held on YouTube servers or the...
Why do Oriental Shorthairs have big ears?
Why do Oriental Shorthairs have big ears? Because the breed standard says that they have to have big ears if they are to win competitions at cat shows.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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.
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