Multicolored Cats

There exist cats of short hair of almost all the colors. The typical monocolors are the blue (though sometimes they are considered to be a breed apart, as the Britannic blue), black, red, creams and white. Recently have been added to this list the chocolate and lilac, and there continues being very popular the classic (mottled) Roman; but few cats can be showier than a silver Roman, with his intense black marks on a fund silver. The tortoises and the two-color "tortie" and white are current only in the females, because the drawing tortoise is tied to the sex. Also there are dotted, smoke and two-color, and now he is appearing in a great variety of own colors as the Roman drawing. Most of the cats of short hair have the gilding eyes or copper color, but the whites' can have the blue eyes or of different color (one blue and other, of another color).

A nearby relative of the blue Britisher is the Chartreux, a French cat that it is said that he had his origin in a monastery of the 16th century. The differences now seem to consist simply of a less round head and a hair lightly more silver.

Both breeds have acquired features of the Siamese type, in which the color limits to the tops, on a clear cap. The basic color is darker than in the Siamese and it tends to get dark more with the age. In the United Kingdom this variant knows as Britisher of short hair of tops color coffee and in Europe as cat with tops color coffee of short hair.

Do not take them
As breed, the cats of short hair are robust, affectionate and intelligent. They are not so temperamental as the oriental ones not so noisy and demanding. The keepers and breeders in the exhibitions say that they don't want to take them. But it does not mean that they should not climb up to the lap in order that they are caressed ... providing that they are of humor. They are easy to produce and their kitties also are strong. With difference of most of the cats of short hair, approximately the half of the British group have blood of the type b, a curious anomaly.

Q/A We wait promptly our first son and we are worried how our cat behaves himself. Sixto is a two-year-old silver Roman and, although he is accustomed to children's visits, has not had contact with newborn children.

Most of the cats of short hair are enough calm and surely he will accept the baby without big difficulties. However, you must not allow him to have access to the cradle and don't allow must allow him to be in a room alone with the child. Establish a routine that could continue after the birth of the child. For example, if Sixto sleeps on the bed, change it now. Also it is very important to give him less attention when the child has born.

Camila, our European white cat of short hair, likes nothing more than enjoying the Sun. Someone told me that he runs the risk of burning with the Sun. Is it a joke?

Not. The white cats or with the white face and those who have the white ears are very inclined to suffer problems of the skin caused by the excessive exposition to the Sun. The most sensitive and capable zones are the pavilions of the ears and the nose. If they take the sun too much , they can degenerate into cancer. For the health of Camila, you should trying to protect her from the sunbeams inside house. Ask your veterinarian for advice on the use of a solar filter.