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Silverdance
Angelina, Silverdance Amadeus, Silverdance Alice
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2x
black-smoke female and 1x red-smoke male 7
weeks old
 There
is no proven theory as to the origin of
the Persian cat.
It
is maintained that at the end of the 16th
Century it was discovered in Ankara, Turkey. For
a long time they were known as Angorian cats.
Other theories consider Persia as the
country of origin and therefore for many years
they have been called Persians.
Researchers think that they descended from wild
long hair cats, e.g. the Manul which developed
its long hair as a natural protection against
winter cold weather in the mountains around
Ankara. Which brings us back to Turkey!
It
is maintained through research that the long
hair resulted from a mutation and then
passed along through natural selection and
through breeding programmes designed to ensure
that the long hair gene was inherited. As
is the case for so many things, the truth will
lie somewhere in the middle. In the last
century the Persian cat was exhibited at shows
in England for the first time. Their popularity
soon spread throughout the world. Besides
the Siamese, the Persian is the most well-known
breed in the world.
The
first Persians were black and white. The colours
blue, cream and red were soon to follow.
The Persian standard calls for a round head,
small ears set well apart and full cheeks. The
eyes are large and round and with a few
exceptions the standard calls for the eyes to be
of an Orange or Copper colour. A compact body
sits on short, strong legs with round paws. The
coat is long and silky. The tail is short and
bushy. A break or kink in the tail or a point at
the end of the tail is considered a fault. In
cat shows, judges would disqualify a cat with
faults like these, which would mean no awards.
It would also not be advisable to breed a
cat with such faults.
The table
of color applies not only to solid cats,
but also to smoke, shaded, tabby and bicolor
cats. The color-code for CFA, FIFE and GCCF is here.
A more detailed summary about the various colors, designs and eye colors
can be found here.
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