Encyclopedia > Oriental cat

  Article Content

Oriental cat

The term Oriental cat is not used for any one particular breed. Rather, it describes a set of physical characteristics belonging to a number of cats from Southeast Asia.

Orientals have small, lean, athletic bodies, large triangular ears, almond-shaped eyes, and usually a very curious, inquisitive, intelligent temperament. They also have a loud voice and 'talk' a lot more than most other cats. Originally, all orientals were short-haired, with a very light-weight and generally light-coloured coat befitting the hot climate of their origin, but they have been cross-bred with persian cats and other long-haired to create medium and long-haired oriental breeds such as the birman cat and Himalayan cat.

The most ubiquitous 'oriental' cat is the siamese cat. Other oriental breeds include the Japanese bobtail (described as a semi-oriental), burmese cat, balinese cat and many others.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Monty Woolley

... Woolley Monty Woolley (August 17, 1888 - May 6, 1963) was an American actor. Born Edgar Montillion Wooley in New York City, Woolley was a professor and lecturer at ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 23.9 ms