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Recently accepted as a version of the Oriental Shorthair, the Oriental Longhair has a semi-longhair coat, which softens and adds grace to the long lines of the Oriental body.

 


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This is Mocha. He is a Lavender Tabby Mackeral Oriental Longhair.

ORIENTAL LONGHAIR
(JAVANESE)
General
The Oriental Longhair conforms in all respects to the comparable Oriental Shorthairs for type, coat colour and eye colour. Length and texture of coat are the same as for the Balinese.

Oriental Longhairs can be any of the standard shorthair colours. The range of possible coat colours includes everything from self-coloured (black, blue, chocolate, lilac, cinnamon, caramel, fawn, red, cream and apricot), torty, ...

Oriental Longhair
The Oriental Longhair Cat is the semi-longhaired variety of the Oriental Shorthair. Like other Oriental breeds, it has the slender body and active, people-oriented temperament of the Siamese.

The Oriental Longhair received provisional recognition from the C.F.A. in 1994. T.I.C.A. published a standard in 1998. This breed is still rare in Europe.
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Oriental Longhair
Description / History
They eagerly greet you at the door and tell you all about their day. If you're late, they will scold you and tell you how worried they were that you didn't call. Hide their feather on top of the refrigerator?

Oriental Longhair StandardCategory IVOLHOriental Longhair Standard
General
Appearance
the ideal cat is svelte, elegant, with long tapering lines, supple and well muscled ...

Common Name(s)
Balinese Cat, Oriental Longhair (Australia), Balinais (France), Balinesen (Germany), Longhaired Siamese (former name before they were called Balinese).

ORIENTAL LONGHAIR & SHORTHAIR
These breeds, almost identical except for the length of coat, are variations upon the Siamese theme, with a dose of Balinese, Javanese and Colorpoint Shorthair thrown in for good measure.

Oriental Longhair
This breed is the semi-longhaired variety of the Oriental Shorthair. Like the other Oriental breeds, it has the slender body and active, people-oriented temperament of the Siamese. It appears in a variety of solid and tabby colors.

Oriental Longhair (UK)
Current
Formerly the (British) Angora (UK) and Javanese (Europe); known around world as Oriental/Foreign Longhair (Mandarin in Netherlands).

The Oriental Longhair was developed in the late 1970s by breeders who crossed the Oriental Short-hair with the Balinese.

BREED: Oriental Longhair [a.k.a. Angora (UK)]
General: Known as the Angora in the UK, the Oriental Longhair is the semi-longhaired variety of the Oriental Shorthair.
Body_Size: Medium
Body_Type: Long; muscled; svelte
Head: Wedge ...

the ACFA ORIENTAL LONGHAIR Standard
General: The ideal Longhair Oriental cat should be graceful, svelte, muscular and fine-boned. It should be nicely proportioned and well balanced, with long tapering lines.

ORIENTAL (Longhair) GENERAL STANDARD The Oriental Longhair is a semi longhaired cat, derived from the Oriental Shorthair breed. Due to the coat length, the Oriental Longhair appears to have softer lines and less extreme type.

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Angora: A very new British cat breed that is an oriental longhaired cat.
Animal Protein: Dietary components derived from meat, fish, and animal products such as milk.

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Javanese allowable outcross breeds: Balinese, Colorpoint Shorthair, Siamese or * Oriental Longhair.
* Certain limited outcrossing is permissible to the Oriental LH, contact the CFA Central Office for details.

With the 1995 addition of the Oriental Longhair into this family of sleek, muscular felines the Oriental breed can provide a cat for just about anyone.

A list of other longhair cat breeds: American Bobtail,American Keuda, Angora, Tiffanie, Balinese, Birman, British Longhair, Cherubim, Colourpoint Longhair, Exotic cat, Javanese, Maine Coon, Nebelung, Neva Masquerade, Oriental Longhair, Siberian, ...

When the Oriental Shorthair was accepted for championship status in 1977 it rapidly became one of CFA's most popular breeds. With the 1995 addition of the Oriental Longhair into this family of sleek, ...

the cinnamon trait, as well as the longhaired gene, and led to the development instead of the beautiful Angora. Despite its confusing name, this Angora is no relation to the Turkish Angora, the 'old' 19th Century Angora, or the new Oriental Longhair.

See also: Oriental, Siamese, Oriental Shorthair, Balinese, Javanese