What affects us affects cats
Here’s a large collage of some long faced cats for aficionados of this sort of cat anatomy. The long faced cat is a development of the modern Siamese cat, and other cats that were subsequently created from that breed, such as the Oriental Shorthair and Balinese, a long haired Siamese. A lot of people like …
Is Isabel a Russian Blue or a grey Oriental Shorthair? The Helmi Flick picture below of “Isabel” shows an oriental style cat with an all grey close short haired coat, long limbs and green eyes. There are four cat breeds that have to be grey (gray). They are: Korat – a “cousin” of the …
This is a leap into the world of the cat fancy. I was going to publish a picture by Helmi Flick of what I believed was a lynx point Oriental Shorthair with blue eyes. It is a head and shoulders shot (see below, the cat on the left). Then I questioned whether the cat …
Oriental Shorthair Cat Patti – Photo: copyright © Helmi Flick – Lilac (dilute chestnut brown). Please respect copyright. Note: the page is divided into sections for SEO reasons. There are links at the end of each section. Introduction You could almost sum up this breed in one sentence, perhaps two. This breed of cat …
Oriental Shorthair With Penetrating Eyes by Des (Michigan) Went to a friends house for the first time .. completely unaware of certain behavior of the Oriental Shorthair was amazed with the behavior of one of her cats. He literally stared “ongoing”, at his owner and at one point focused on analyzing me with “eyes” …
by Hannah (Warrington, UK) I have a 3yr old foreign white boy named Lewis and a 14yr old blue point Siamese, my sister has 2 Havanas. Lewis has a skin condition which causes him to scratch around his neck and ears until he’s raw and I was wondering if anyone had any experience of …
by Jackie Davidson (Carataunas, Granada, Spain) My gorgeous black and white Oriental cat As my first love was an original Siamese, who died at the age of 3, I felt I could not have another Siamese as I was too distraught by the loss of him. So I went for a totally different breed: …
by Lisa James (Green Cove Springs, FL) Talky with her foster baby First of all, I wanted to make a few corrections. A Siamese is a Siamese, & if you go back & LOOK at the CFA yearbooks from 30 years ago or more, the type was ALWAYS this way, & the pointed gene …
