Oriental Short Hair CatThe easiest way to think about the oriental is imagine a Siamese cat imagines with monocolor hair. They share the same physical type characterized by a slender and agile body, the head in the shape of wedge, the oblique eyes and the same gregarious personality. Even the standards of breed are identical for both, except in the color. The Siamese are pale, with the tops of color; the oriental of short hair can be approximately of 50 different colors. The intensity of the controversy on the color would surprise the owner of a cat who does not take part in exhibitions. Always there have been significant variations in the natural scale of color of the Siamese and only the singularity of the version of tops was the one that did these cats the first favorites between all the cats of pedigree. However, someone who visits Thailand can observe that more than half of the domestic cats are monocolors only 20 % of the Siamese cats have the characteristic pale hair with tops. Both groups split in 1920, when the the Siamese Club of Great Britain decided that be registered as Siamese only the cats of tops with the blue eyes. The assortment of refused types was big, but its number declined spectacularly because these cats so called simply "foreign" - had a scanty consideration among the circle of the exhibitors. Until the end of the decade of 1950 the breeders did not achieve the recognition for a showy type of Siamese cat monocolor, in tone chocolate and with the green eyes, known initially as the "quoit Havana ". The breed was exported from the United States under this name, but into Great Britain was changed the name into "chestnut-colored foreigner before turning into "Brown Havanan ". In the United States, brown Havanan continues being a separate breed Lilac and white foreigner of short hair also was labeling the popular foreigners separately, but now all the colors are classified like oriental of short hair under an attempt of reducing the great existing confusion between the international breeders of cats. The oriental blue of short hair is confusing with the Korat and the oriental of short hair Roman specked with the Egyptian Mau, but the oriental take in the face and in the form of the body the different Siamese aspect |
