Cat Breeds - Cats British Short hair

Cat Personality

If you are looking for a cat raiding the refrigerator and swung dramatically from the chandeliers, the Cats British Short hair is not for you. The Cats British are calm, balanced, kittens are introduced with a "typical British reserve, particularly Paul." If they are no longer in awe of the first, however, are extremely loyal companions. Cats British Short hair niche push their loyalty to his family to select and not someone to be loyal. British Short hair breeders describe the British as cats like to keep a low profile, but not sticky sweet and loving as a cat in-your-face. Niche more and more independent, and if they can on their updates left usually adapt quite well.

Cat Breed Traits

As the American Cats British Short hair is known for its health and strength. The breed is robust in design, compact and powerful, with a round face and big head. The head design is the race of other races by Domestic Short Hair develops. A very dense, short, soft blanket for the fulfillment the British Short hair important. The hair feels solid, like sinking your fingers into the company known as velvet. The coat is double-sided or woolly, making it easier to follow, but regular maintenance is important. Although blue is the most common, the British Short hair comes in a variety of colors and patterns.

History - British Shorthair Cat Breed?

The British Short hair is the British in the same way as the American Short hair is America, there has recently been transported from elsewhere. However, the ancestor of the British probably the oldest British breeds of cats and of course, is traveling to Britain centuries before his nephew on a trip to the New World.

The ancestor was a common way to Great Britain chat, urged the European Short hair. This breed (whose shape is very different from the British program that you see in theaters now) arrived in England around 2000 years ago, thanks to the Empire "novel. The Romans, the cats and rodents, domestic cat short hair breed delivery to Northern Europe , and finally their provinces outside the British Isles.

For centuries, these colors are stable in the alleys and barns Great Britain's. Helped in the late 1800-cat-lover Harrison Weir, for his contributions to the emerging world of well-known chat with the founding of the breed was officially recognized as a British short hair. Through his efforts, British Shorthair, human resources in the England first cat show at Crystal Palace in London, and quickly became popular with the British Cat Fancy.

Near the end of the century, drew the attention the cat with long hair and exotic British Shorthair fancy lost its popularity. But the British held their own until the chaos of the Second World War the breed (and in many European and other races) decimated.

After the war for the preservation the British Shorthair breeder permission of the British Council of the Cat Fancy for crossbreeding with other breeds of cats during the cat British gene pool dedicated to reconstruction. Persians were the people from within existing resources in the lines and short-haired breeds have recorded as the Carthusians and contacts. These efforts transformed the United Kingdom in its present form: a large, powerful mini-teddy bear with a full, round face and a provision Placid.

American cat-lover, a number of British short hair observed until 1960, and it was not recognized until 1970 ACFA that obsolete British Shorthair blue (Blue British) called. (Blue was and still is, the color is more common than in Britain rose because of the large number of Persians and Chartreuse in the blue blood lines after the war.)

The race is slow to supporters in the United States, 1970-1980, the Association Agreement with the British in the other imaginary cat in North America.

Copyright © 1998 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. based on
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CAT BREEDS by J. Anne Helgren.