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Ch. Petmar's Unchained Melody
Breeder: Mary C. Petritsch,
Petmar
cattery, Newport News, Virginia, USA
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GRC Prideomine Just Reward of Wisdom
Breeder: Donna DeGroot,
Pride O Mine cattery, USA |
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There
exist many different colours and patterns in Persians.
Solid colours
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black |
The coat colour is black like charcoal. |
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blue |
The coat colour is a light blue-grey. |
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chocolate |
The coat colour is like milk-chocolate. |
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lilac |
The coat colour is like dove-grey with a slight pinkish
tone. |
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red |
The coat colour is a deep orange, the darker the colour
is the better.
The coat should be without tabby markings. |
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cream |
The coat colour is pale pastel cream. |
Tortie colours
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black tortie
(also called tortieshell) |
The coat is patched in dark black and red. |
blue tortie
(also called bluecream) |
The coat is patched in light blue-grey and pastel cream. |
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chocolate tortie |
The coat is patched in milk-chocolate and red. |
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lilac tortie |
The coat is patched in dove-grey and pastel cream. |
Smoke colours
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All the colours above with silver, which means the at the
roots of the coat is a silver white band, with a silver white frill.
About 5/6 of the hair length is coloured with the above mentioned
colours. From outside the cat looks like a solid coloured cat, but when
the coat is parted or the cat moves the silver white underground can be
seen. |
Shaded and Shell
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Shell is also called Chinchilla. |
All the colours above with silver, only the hair tips are
coloured with colour (called tipped with colour), the major part of the
hair length is silver white.
Cats without red have impressing green eyes. |
Besides silver shaded/shell the same colours exist also
in Golden shaded and Golden shell, where the major part of the
hair length is coloured in a golden yellow tone.
Also here those cats without red have a striking green eye colour. |
| In some federations the cats in red silver, cream silver,
tortie silver are sometimes called Cameos, i.e. red Cameo, cream Cameo,
tortie Cameo. |
Tabby patterns
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blotched |
called 'classic tabby' |
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mackerel |
called 'tigre' |
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spotted |
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All the colours above can have those tabby patterns:
f.e. black tabby, blue tabby, red tabby, tortie tabby (sometimes called
torbies), etc. |
All the colours above together with silver can have those
tabby patterns:
f.e. black silver tabby, blue silver tabby, red silver tabby, tortie
silver tabby, etc., which means the base of the hairs is silver white
and on this silver white ground is the tabby pattern in black, in blue,
in red, etc. |
Bicolour patterns
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All the colours above can be with white. |
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Van |
Almost the whole cat is white, there are only 2 colour patches on the
head and the tail is coloured. |
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Harlequin |
The cat has coloured patches which are encircled with white.
The confusing thing is, that this pattern does not exist in all major
federations, and in some federations the Van is called Harlequin. |
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Bi-colour, Tri-colour |
The cat has white in face, is white on the chest and stomach, has white
on the feet and paws, and sometimes it has a white collar and a white
patch on the back. The rest of the coat is coloured.
If the cat is tortie with white it is sometimes called tri-colour, and in
some federations it is called Calico, respective Diluted Calico, when it
is f.e. a bluetortie with white. |
| Those bicolour patterns can be also tabby with white, can
be also silver with white (smoke with white, silver tabby with white). |
Colourpoint
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The colour is restricted to certain areas:
There is a so called mask in the face, the ears, the legs and the tail
are coloured, the body is almost white.
The eye colour is always blue. |
| Sometimes those Colourpoints are also called Himalayans. |
| The coloured areas can be also with stripes (tabby), and
sometimes those cats are called Lynxpoints. |
White
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The whole cat is white. |
| The cat can have orange eyes, blue eyes, and
odd eyes (one eye is orange, the other eye is blue). |
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Rambling Rose von Dreilinien
Breeder: Angelika Mattern,
cattery von Dreilinien, Delmenhorst, Germany |
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GRC Prideomine Stacie
Breeder: Donna DeGroot,
Pride O Mine cattery, USA |
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Just Like Chess By Fate
Breeder: Lenette Nielsen,
By Fate cattery,
Hjřrring, Denmark |
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Florindo's Bogaboo
Breeder: Gujje & Lars-Olof Magnusson,
Florindo's cattery,
Oskarshamn, Sweden |
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EC Golden Einstein de Persefelis
Breeder: Allan & Sylvia Outrup,
Persefelis cattery, Helsinge, Denmark
Owner: Jóhanna Hákonardóttir,
Snćljós
cattery, Reykjavík, Iceland |
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Ayser's Moonlight Serenade
Breeder: Maarit Lindholm, Finland |
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Eurocatfancy
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| Breed profile |
The modern typed Persian is
medium to large in size, the body is short (called cobby). The legs are short and strong.
The bone
structure is rather solid.
The head must be round (also when viewed in profile), the skull is broad with a well
rounded forehead and dome.
The ears are small and placed rather deep .
The nose is very short in the Persian of today and must be broad, it has a stop - in some
associations it must be a break - between the eyes, in the so called Peke-Face Persians
the nose has a deep break between the eyes.
The eyes are large and round and set wide apart (to give that certain baby look).
The eye colour is different in different coat colours: Orange eyes are found in solid colours,
tabbies, white, smoke, bi-colour. Blue eyes are found in white, bi-colour and
Colourpoints
(Note: The blue eye colour of a Colourpoint is genetically different from the blue
eye colour in
a white cat!). Green eyes are found in black/blue silver shaded and silver tabbies.
The jaws are broad, the bite must be level.
The coat is soft and very long, with a dense undercoat. The coat is long all
over the body, also including the shoulders. Around the neck there is an
immense ruff with a
long frill in winter covering almost the entire length of the front legs.
The tail is short and bushy, the tail tip is rounded and the hairs form a round brush. |
History
The first cats were brought to Italy and France from Asia
Minor in 1620. In Harrison Weir's first written breed standard, published in 1876, the cats
were called Asiatic cats. The first cats seen in Britain were described as Angoras or
French cats (mostly they were white). Gradually the body became more cobby, the ears smaller
and the head larger and broader giving more pre-eminence to the body type of the French
cats.
By the turn of the century to 1900 the breed was exported to North
America and was recognized by all registries. The Blue is one of the oldest colours,
and was already presented in the show in London in 1871, it became soon very popular as Queen Victoria
owned two blue cats. By 1901 the colours recognized in Britain were black, blue, white,
orange (today's red self and red tabby), cream, sable (this colour cannot be clearly
identified, but its description sounds like the ancestors of today's Goldens), smoke,
tabby, spotted, chinchilla, tortieshell, bi-colour and tri-colour (today's tortie with white
respective Calicos as they are called in North America).
Originally known as magpie cats, popular in shorthair first, the Bi-colours and
Calicos were recognized in Britain in 1966 and soon afterwards in North America.
The first smoke Persians were registered as a separate breed class in Britain in 1893.
One of the most famous Chinchillas was Silver Lambkin. Today silver Chinchillas and
Silver
Shaded are recognized in black/blue tipped, chocolate/lilac tipped, red/cream tipped and tortie tipped,
the colour variants with red are often referred as cameos.
Peke-face Persians were recognized as separate variety (colour class) in the USA and Canada,
they are only bred in
red and red tabby. The Colourpoint, often referred as Himalayan, in former times up to 1950 called Khmer,
is a man-made breed, resulting from cross breeding between Siamese and long-haired cats done
by a Swedish geneticist in 1924. This breeding program was continued in North America in
1930 breeding black Persians to Siamese and resulted in the first longhair pointed cat
born in 1935, named Debutante. In 1955 the breed was recognized by GCCF as Colourpoint.
Breeding of pedigree Himalayans in the United States started in 1950, the Himalayans were
recognized by all major associations in North America in 1961. |
Temperament
The Persian has a quiet, very gentle and sweet
personality. The cat is affectionate to people and rather little
talkative. Everything is done cautiously, but yet they are very
alert, they are not seriously in a hurry. The Persian is to be
considered by many as the aristocrat in the cat fancy. |
| Grooming
Persians have a very thick woolly undercoat, but this goes hand in hand with
matting. They have to be combed and brushed constantly to keep their coat
free from knots and mats. They require daily care. Do not plan to have a
Persian unless you have enough time for grooming. You have to give them a
bath on a regular basis to keep their impressing and wonderful coat shiny
and silky. |
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