Cat Breeds - Exotic Shorthair Cat

Cat Personality

Some people do not know that the laid-back, sweet personality labels are Persians and their families (furniture with fur), but they are fun and exotic, enjoy a good game to catch the mouse poison cat attacks a few ZZZS . collect The influence American Shorthair, Exotic reported to alive than the Persians, although some breeders that the two races are very similar in temperament to say.

Undoubtedly, cat personality of exotic, if not same, very similar to the Persians, quiet, loyal, gentle and affectionate. You want to be involved in their lives and favorite of the man will follow easily from room to room to see what they do. They also enjoy hugs and cuddles, and merged it with the wonderful man licks and affection away until the thick layer of them to a room, linoleum kitchen chimney bricks cool or cold. Fans pointed out that due to the short hair, you can spend more time playing with their exotic look after them.

Cat Breed Traits

Maintain the Persian body type, fur and diversified the gene pool, you must return to the Persian breed. About 50 percent of the links exotic kittens / Persian wish to have long hair, if the parent carries the recessive longhair exotic. Can pls exotic events is high for exotic nests have long hair long hair when the gene in both parents. This slows the process of reproduction and exotics can disappointing, because the CFA Exotics with long hair who are not as exotic and Persians. However, the motion to have the breeder and lover of long hair exotic accepted in CFA, but not whether there will be a success. Some fans of creation a new hair department Persian, and others prefer a division long hair and short hair for the exotic.

Other associations management of alien species with long hair in a different way. For example, Tica, they seem as Persians, ACFA recognizes them as a long-haired Exotics, and UFO, CFF, AACE and CCA to recognize them as exotic long-haired cats.

History : Exotic Shorthair Cat Breed?

At the end of 1950, American Shorthair breeders, with popularity of the Persian motivated, began secretly in their American Shorthair Persian lines move to the kind of physique and beautiful silver to improve Persian, and are in the USA states, preferably of America. (At this point is a person and up to 1965, the American Shorthair cat known as the source.) This intersection lies outside American Shorthair through a restructuring in 1960. U.S. bone was heavy, his round head and shorter nose, and the coat has become thicker and longer. Since conformation of the Persians was popular (and is), the hybrids also in the show, but no recognition, were a race of resource persons at the time.

Other Breeders American Shorthair, regional changes that occur in the race, it was found that no American who has shown signs of hybridization possible. Exotic Shorthair remain illegal if it were not for the efforts of the CFA judge Jane Martinko. It was the first to suggest that this hybrid mixture of American / Persian must have a private room, and not allowed to the furniture in the rest of the American Shorthair be reorganized.

The Exotic Shorthair was accepted for championship status of the CFA franc in 1967. Contacts CFA breeders were then moving their American Shorthair / Persian hybrids in the newly founded Department of Exotic Shorthair.

Few people have voted for cat breeders to transfer the new class, however, and farmers who decided to have work with the exotic, has a long way to go. Due to the first resistance to the new generation, and because they are a few breeders Persian exotic cats for use in breeding programs, progress is very slow.

Originally farmers exotic Burmese and Russian Blue, American Shorthair and the gene to introduced for short hair. The breeders of short-hair breeds often just enough to keep short hair gene into the line.

When the race began gaining popularity, and how the gene pool grew, the CFA has begun limiting the intersections. In 1987, so that the CFA Exotic Shorthair intersection of all closed, the Persian and the CFA? S only authorized border crossing points.

Even with the slow start, saw the significant progress that is cat exotic with the help of the devoted followers of the race in a dress of a Persian cat with short hair, a valuable addition to fantasy. In 1971 reached the first Exotic Shorthair the status of Grand Champion. In 1991, the exotic, the CFA cat and kittens the best year in 1992, the CFA is an exotic. Today, the exotic has a large following among fans of cats.

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