The Oriental Foreign Shorthairs with their short coats and long noses, and consequently long tongues, are especially efficient at self-grooming.
The Burmese is a foreign shorthair, catagorised by colour into brown, blue, chocolate, lilac, red, cream and tortoise shell. It yellow eyes and a very short satiny coat. They are heavier than they look, as they are very muscular.
Burmese Cat: A foreign shorthair with yellow eyes and a very short, satiny coat. Color can be brown (seal), blue, chocolate, lilac, red, cream and tortoise shell.
Foreign Shorthair
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Head: Long, can be inscribed in an isosceles triangle. Straight profile without stop. The skull, seen in profile, is slightly convex. Slender, well-formed muzzle.
The Havana Brown is a medium-sized, muscular cat that is one of a number of breeds classified generally as oriental or foreign shorthairs.
Initially accepted by Cat Fancy in England as "chestnut foreign shorthairs", additional breeders soon created an all white, blue-eyed variant who gained popularity and recognition by Cat Fancy as "white foreign shorthairs".
The Burmese is considered a foreign shorthair in the United States. The ideal Burmese is a cat of medium size with substantial bone structure, good muscular development and surprising weight for its size.
Being developed in UK in late 1960s/early 1970s; Foreign shorthairs of extreme type bred from Oriental selfs and Foreign Spotteds and incorporating the silver gene to give the coat a "shot silk effect".
In the late 1950's, a committee decided to rename the breed "Chestnut Brown Foreign Shorthair" since the breed originated in England, and not Cuba. However, due to popular demand, the original name was reinstated in the 1970's.
The Abyssinian belongs to the foreign shorthaired group of cats and is one of the world's oldest known breeds, with original cats probably imported from Abyssinia, now Ethiopia.
However, potential owners should be aware that the Foreign Shorthair will suffer no mistreatment and small children should be supervised around this animal until it becomes more familiar.
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The overall impression of the ideal Somali is a medium cat, regal in appearance. The Somali is a foreign shorthair type. The males are larger than females, the females being finer boned and usually more active than the males.
Other breeds such as the Persian cat breed and foreign shorthair breeds grew in popularity.
GCCF accept this breed for championship competition calling the cat "Chestnut Foreign Shorthair" (or is it "Chestnut Brown Foreign"1?)
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They sought acceptance in the United States to combine all Foreign Shorthaired to be one breed called the Oriental Shorthaired. The Siamese, Abyssinians, and American Shorthaired were the cats crossed to produce the body type and colors.
were in Britain as early as the 1890s, but the breed development did not begin in earnest until sixty years later. They were introduced to the United States in the mid-1950s. It was first accepted by GCCF in 1958 as the Chestnut Foreign Shorthair.
Praha Gypka was another early chestnut brown cat - a male that came from a chocolate point Siamese bred to a black shorthair. The Governing Council of the Cat Fancy (GCCF) recognized the new breed in 1958 as the Chestnut Foreign Shorthair, ...
 See also: Havana Brown, CFA, Oriental Shorthair, Cat Fancy, Chestnut
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