Origin and appearance

The exact origin of Persian cat isn't established by science yet. Ones confim that longhaired cats came from domestic cats, long hair of which developed in the result of conscious selection. At the heart of this selection there were animals, fur of which became longer under the influence of environment - most likely because of cold weather or in consequence of spontaneous mutation.

However, it has a sense to listen to the conclusions of German and Russian scientists, who on the basis of many years researches suppose that ersan cat comes from manul. This wild cat looks like our today's Persians very much though modern cats still changed very much. It is enough to mark, for example, short-cut noses and little ears. Confirmation of this theory is the fact that their past habitat coincides and als that both have hair on the lower side of fingers.

Give a standard, common for all Persians: big or of middle size , thickset, cobby body, wide chest. Legs are strong, short, straight. Bushes of hair betwen claws are desirable. Pads are big and round. Tail is short,l in good proportion with body, not sharp on the tip. Head and neck are round and massive, skull is wide, fullcheeks and prominent forehead. Nose is short and wide with "stop". Chin, jaws are wide, neck is short and strong. Ears are small, a little rounded, placed very far from each other and rather low placed on the head, covered with thick hair. Big, round and open, shining and expressive eyes, placed far from each other. Fur is long and thick, tender and silky. Long neck jabots are around of shoulders and chest.

Her temper

After all, every Persian cat is strongly pronounced unique personality. They say that she is "the calmest lady" among all breed cats. At this slightly differences of temper of one-colored and many-colored cats are noticed. Spotted and parti-colored variations in the most cases are little bit more temteramental than their one-colored "colleagues". But on the whole exclusively intelligent cat, which most part of her mind uses to twist her owners round her finger, is hiden behind a little bit gloomy "baby face" and sometimes slightly furious expression of "face". Life in the company of human during many generations produced in her not only patient "room-mate", but tender member of family. Persian cat gets used to the human absolutely in her special way. She is accurate with respect to the subjects, drops nothing, inspite of her mobility, but if the case occures to her, she hunts for mouses. Elegant and well-groomed Persian cat remains still "real cat", in the best sense at this. However, she shouldn't be turned into a doll because of her decorative appearance.