A Michael Broad Blog
This is a really nice picture of a relatively rare cat breed, the Oriental Longhair. The picture caught my eye. It is by Nadi Hammouda, and I hope that they accept the publication of the picture on my website. The breeder is Paula & Petri Jaakkola of cattery Mummeli. What I like about this …
Cats who are sociable towards humans and cats are friendly cats. A recent study of about 4,000 purebred cats living in Finland and carried out by scientists from the University of Helsinki, through questionnaires sent to the cats’ owners, concluded that the cats from the Far East were the friendliest. To be more specific …
This is a picture of a black silver classic tabby Oriental Longhair cat by Tessa Photography (tessa.lv). The cat is said to be International Champion Noxx Zlatan Ibrahimovic by the website catcolours.com. I will say a few things about the cat and the photograph. I think most people now know what a tabby cat …
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 …
Although Helmi has not described this cat as an Oriental Longhair, he has to be judging by his appearance. His name is Jack of Noah’s Ark. The photograph has an ethereal quality, semi-translucent, which I like. It gives Jack a mysterious appearance. The face is 100% Oriental Shorthair or Longhair; long and thin (and …
“Oz”, an Oriental Longhair, is going to be a big celebrity in Australia where she lives with her human companion, a cat breeder, whose name is Deborah Nugent. It’s an amazing coincidence that she is an Australian cat and has an Australian map right in the middle of her face. She appears to be …
