Oriental Shorthair Cat Breed
Oriental Shorthairs
The Oriental Shorthair is related to the Siamese they both demand a lot of attention, and, in turn, give total devotion. They are talkative, agile, smart, and independent.
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Oriental Shorthair Stats
Color: Generally of a solid color or tabby-patterned in a variety of colors for both the shorthair and longhair varieties
Grooming: Many breeders recommend not bathing show cats.
Oriental Shorthair Cat Breed
Lively, curious, and intelligent, the Oriental shorthair doesn't like to be left alone. It demands attention by draping itself around one's feet or neck.
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Oriental Shorthair's love heat, the hotter the better. A low-maintenance pet, they shed very little and require only minimal grooming: once a week or so, you should groom them with your bare hands and trim their claws regularly.
The Oriental Shorthair is actually a Siamese hybrid first developed in England in the 20th century. It is similar in body type to the Siamese, but comes in many more color and pattern varieties.
Emerald green or jade except in the white Oriental Shorthair, which has blue eyes. Yellow or copper eyes are accepted for red and cream coats. Note that the color may not be acquired until the cat is one year old.
Neck: Long, slender.
Smoke - The coat may be any colour accepted in Oriental shorthairs with a near white undercoat. One-third to two thirds of the length of the hair will be pale. There should be no significant contrast between the head and body.
Oriental Shorthair
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.
Oriental Shorthair/Longhair
The Oriental was developed to explore all the possibilities of color and pattern. Since its initial acceptance in CFA, Oriental breeders have maintained a constant pace to fulfill the breadth of this destiny.
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The Playful Cat Once Known As The "Foreign" Cat. Every owner will tell you that this breed's favourite place is between you and your book, or newspaper, or keyboard! ...
The Oriental Shorthair Cat Origin
The Siamese cat was imported to Britain from Siam ( Thailand ) in the later half of the 1800s. According to reports, both pointed and solid colors were imported.
Oriental Shorthairs can be found in solid colors (white, red, cream, ebony, blue, chestnut, lavender, cinnamon, or fawn), smoke (silver undercoat to any of the above except white), shaded (only the hair tips colored), ...
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Since the Siamese has the long haired Balinese associated with it, and the Colorpoint has the long haired Colorpoint Siamese (Javanese in some groups), it seemed only right that the Oriental Shorthair should have its own long haired variation.
Oriental Shorthair
In physique and temperament, the breed is a Siamese, but in solid coat colors. Today, over half of Siamese descendants are self or bicolor, and fewer than a quarter are pointed.
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Oriental Shorthairs are like the Siamese in body type and personality, but Orientals do not share the characteristic Siamese coloring (colored points on the head, tail, and legs).
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White cat with colour confined to the extremities: head, tail and legs. One or two small coloured patches on body allowable.
Oriental Shorthairs, like all the Siamese group breeds, have fine bones and a long tubular body, even in width from shoulder to hip. Their legs, tail, and even toes are long and slender. They should be muscular and firm, neither bony nor fat.
Oriental Shorthairs are like the Siamese in that of the body and personality, but Orientals do not share the characteristic of the Siamese coloring (colored points on the head, tail, and legs).
The Oriental Shorthair Cat is an inquisitive and confident animal that is both a 'livewire' and a treat to have around the home.
The Oriental Shorthair / Longhair was once considered a solid color Siamese. Orientals are sociable, talkative and affectionate, as well as playful. The body and head shape is the same as the Siamese.
Black Oriental Shorthair are called Ebony. They have green eyes.
Entropion
When the eye lids are rolled inwards.
ORI - Oriental Shorthair.
Ornamentals - Affectionate nickname for Orientals.
Outbreeding - Breeding in which inbreeding is deliberately avoided.
the ACFA ORIENTAL SHORTHAIR Standard
General: The ideal Oriental Shorthair cat should be graceful, svelte, muscular and fine-boned. It should be nicely proportioned and well balanced, with long tapering lines.
OSA: Oriental Shorthairs of America, a breed club.
OSH: Oriental Shorthair, a breed.
PR: Premier, a title. (In FIFe, it is spelled "Premior.")
QGC: Quadruple Grand Champion, a title.
QGM: Quadruple Grand Master, a title.
It was not until the post-World War II era that cat fanciers renewed their efforts to recreate the self-colored brown oriental shorthair in Great Britain.
The Siamese is the parent breed for the Siamese Breed Group which includes the Balinese (truly a long haired Siamese), and the Oriental Shorthair and Longhair which share the same body type, but come with a different "paint job".
Since the Siamese has the longhaired Balinese, and the Colorpoint has the longhaired Javanese, it seems only right that the Oriental Shorthair should have its own longhaired variant?
com click here: Oriental Shorthair Cats Oriental Longhair Cats The Oriental Cat - An Overview Put simply, the Oriental breed is a non-pointed Siamese.
Peterbalds look a lot like Oriental Shorthair cats. They are very slim in body size, have large ears which are set far apart, and large almond shaped eyes.
When the Oriental Shorthair was accepted for championship status in 1977 it rapidly became one of Cat Fancier's Association's most popular breeds.
Javanese Variants (Oriental Shorthairs carrying one gene for Longhair) were produced by mating Balinese to the best available Oriental Shorthairs.
The Javanese is one breed in a line of designer Siamese-style cats that includes the Balinese, Colorpoint Shorthair, Oriental Shorthair, and 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.
COAT COLOUR - All recognised Oriental Shorthair colours and patterns are allowed and the Oriental Longhair should conform to these standards.
EYE COLOUR:to conform to the standard for Oriental Shorthairs.
Cats with coloured point markings such as the Siamese and various Siamese crossbreeds (including the Balinese, Burmese, Colourpoint Shorthair, Himalayan, Javanese, Ocicat, Oriental Shorthair and Longhair, Snowshoe, and Tonkinese) tend to be ...
Oriental: a term often used interchangeably with ‘foreign,' particularly of extreme type. Specifically relating to the Oriental Shorthair.
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Oriental - slender body, long and triangular head, almond-shaped eyes, large ears, long nose, long tail, long legs. Example of this type of cats: Oriental Shorthair, Siamese Cat, Balinese Cat.
Often Bengal cats are used as the domestic partner but sometimes other breeds, such as an Egyptian Mau or Oriental Shorthair, are used and that too will effect the appearance of the Savannah kittens.
Today, and because the breeding in Great Britain continued to outcross the Havana Brown with Siamese, the original look of the cat has been lost (now looking more like chestnut Oriental Shorthair in type) but was retained in the American variety.
 See also: Siamese Cat, CFA, Cat Fancy, Oriental Longhair, Wedge
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