Persians a color-point

This cat is obliged to the occurrence to American researcher K. Keeler who in the beginning of 1930th has deduced this breed (result of the directed crossing of a Siamese cat with a black Persian cat). Such cats are quiet, but not lazy, friendly and trustful, are not afraid of dogs and other cats. Have individual unique customs, are sociable, quickly become attached to the person. She is completely especial Persian cat. How many about her of conversations! Many efforts were spent by selectors that the square silhouette has reached perfection, dense wool, and a mask and paws Siamese colour.

And, certainly, this small miracle has been received not for one day. Color-points (it is literally - " painted tip ") have strong short direct legs, a wide breast and shoulders, roundish the big paws with bunches of hair between fingers. A tail at them short, proportional to a trunk, with fluffy roundish tip. On a short strong neck a wide and massive skull.

At a color-point full cheeks, a strong chin, a vaulted forehead, a short nose with the well defined bend ("drain") giving to them a furious kind; the bottom jaw hardly is put forward. Because of it they sometimes breathe a mouth, are inclined to cold.

The big brilliant and expressive blue eyes are widely placed.

Wool long, dense, thin and silky. On a neck - "collar". Colour a wool - warm brown, and marks - dark brown, are not excluded other color shades (an ivory with brown, bluish - white with blue, cream with reddish and cream spots, etc.). At kittens at a birth of a stain are hardly appreciable, gradually they darken and to 1,5-one-year-old age are shown completely.

With him there was a set of problems, with this Persian in a mask. He should follow the fashion which has come from America. Color is designated only on a muzzle, on a tail, on ears and on paws.

And besides, he should be similar to the American! This circumstance forces sometimes selectors to cross these cats to typical American Persians and again to select their posterity, to receive simultaneously both type, and color motive.

Thank God, selectors operated reasonably, and the public who has been in love with cats a color-point, did not insist on Persians with the flattened noses. In result our fine color-points admire us with the kind, fur, magnificent contrast of color spots on a light background, an ingenuous sight of blue eyes and expression of a muzzle as at a kitten even if their nose on millimeter is longer, than it is necessary, at a sight of the American judge!

He has very much changed, this color-point, from the moment of the beginning of his selection at the end of the twentieth years. At that time many countries dreamed of a magnificent cat with long wool and a dark brown mask, as at the true Siamese cats. Sweden, Germany, France and the USA the first tried to cross Siamese cats with Persian to connect features of two well-known breeds, - and the success has not kept itself waiting.