{"id":2149,"date":"2016-08-18T16:22:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T14:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.profeline.de\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2016-08-20T12:11:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T10:11:41","slug":"british-shorthair-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.profeline.de\/en\/british-shorthair-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"British Shorthair Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nature and Character of the British Shorthair Cat<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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\nThe British Shorthair cat is very easy to look after. Even if you\u2019re new to keeping cats, this beautiful cat can bring lots of pleasure, and little stress. They have as few problems with their health as they do with their moods. The British Shorthair cat has maintained all its physical strength, endless energy, confident instincts and fearless mentality through to the present day. The cats slot into normal family life without much fuss, and, thanks to their easy-going nature, get on incredibly well with children and other pets. It is definitely easier to look after these calm shorthair cats than longhair cats. All that needs doing is brushing out loose hairs once a week. The British Shorthair cat is an ideal addition to the home thanks to its strong need for companionship, and its always pleasant and curious nature.<\/p>\n

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The Breed Standard for the British Shorthair Cat<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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\nShape: <\/strong>Body large or medium-sized, muscular, broad chest, shoulders and back large and wide. Legs and feet short and stocky. Paws round and powerful. The tail is short and thick with a round tip. Solid and powerful, but still well-proportioned. With a good bone structure, a British Shorthair should have the appearance of a \u201cround\u201d, compact cat with a cobby body.
\nHead: <\/strong>The head is round and sturdy with a broad skull, very well developed neck, short and powerful. Strong chin. Nose short and wide, straight, gentle curve to the nose, only slight indentation.
\nEars:<\/strong> Ears short and wide, gently rounded.
\nEyes:<\/strong> Eye shape is large, round and broadly spaced, wide open.
\nCoat:<\/strong> The coat is short and dense all over, never sparse, with a thick, well-insulating undercoat. Not too soft \u2013 can be \u201ccrisp\u201d to the touch and stand off from the body in a \u201cfluffy\u201d manner. Each hair should be the same colour from root to tip.<\/p>\n

\"penny-kratzbaum\"<\/a> The History of the British Shorthair Cat<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The history of the British Shorthair begins around 2000 years ago, when Roman soldiers brought the first cats to Britain to catch mice and rats in farms and storehouses.<\/p>\n

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The Romans were pushed out of Britain \u2013 but the cats remained and developed into the British version of the domestic cat. Nobody is quite sure if they bred with indigenous wild cats (felis silvestris): the one thing we can be sure of is that, thanks to the island\u2019s isolated location, the cats have reproduced without being influenced by other cat breeds.<\/p>\n

Over many centuries, the British cat developed organically into a shorthaired, sturdy, powerful cat with a water-repellent coat. They are good at catching mice, and make friendly, even-tempered pets.<\/p>\n

In England, the home of cat breeding, the first cat shows took place in 1870. For the first few years, breeders focused on Persian cats, which, with blue and white coats, were the \u201cin thing\u201d in terms of purebred cats. A little while later, people experimented by crossing particularly beautiful, native shorthair domestic cats with longhair Persian cats.<\/p>\n

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Whether curiosity, a desire to experiment, or maybe breeders\u2019 ambition to transfer the Persian\u2019s coat and eye colour to the shorthair European domestic cat: nowadays, nobody can say for certain what caused the first crossbreedings.
\nOne thing is for sure \u2013 that the evenly blue, shorthair offspring of these interbreedings were the early ancestors of our British Shorthair cats.
\nIn 1911 a shorthair blue cat owned by a certain Miss Cochrane won the \u201cBest in Show\u201d prize at a cat show.
\nThis was certainly the point at which the cat was recognised as a breed in its own right, because a short time later, the British Shorthair was officially recognised as a breed by what was then Cat Fancy, and the first standards for breeding were laid down.<\/p>\n

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At the start of the 20th<\/sup> Century, British Shorthair cats were exhibited in great numbers.<\/p>\n

Their shape was generally defined in the standards as compact with a large, round head and round eyes, short, dense coat with a delicate texture and thick undercoat.<\/p>\n

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The World Wars left their mark on the British Shorthair cat, along with almost every cat breed. In a time in which food was scarce and large amounts of the population had other things to worry about, many precious cat breeds were lost.<\/p>\n

It became hard to find suitable toms for breeding. For this reason, breeders decided to cross-breed cats: breeding cats from one breed with cats from another breed.<\/p>\n

After crossbreeding with domestic cats failed to lead to success, because the offspring were not the right type, people remembered the early days of breeding, and started to cross them with Persians, despite the problems posed by their long hair. The Persian\u2019s long coat can also be passed down as a result of this pairing \u2013 and even today, thanks to a certain genetic leaning, it is possible to see British Shorthair cats with long hair.<\/p>\n

In some cat breeding organisations, cats of this type were granted a pedigree, but were not allowed to be bred further. Other organisations came to a different conclusion, giving the longhaired version of the British Shorthair its own name (Highlander), and breeding them selectively. The Highlander combines the long hair of a Persian with the British body structure and face \u2013 put simply: a Persian with a nose.<\/p>\n

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Another breed that was in the spotlight after the Second World War was the French Chartreux. Breeders of this variety also had problems because of the reduction in breeding stock during the war, and turned to British Shorthair toms to boost their numbers.<\/p>\n

The cross between Chartreux, British Shorthairs and Persians led to the European association of cat breeders, FIFe, in 1970 designating the exhibition class of \u201cChartreux\u201d for all blue shorthair cats and \u201cBritish Shorthair\u201d for all other cats of this origin who were not blue.<\/p>\n

This decision was only changed in 1977 after long protests by Chartreux breeders. Since this point, British Shorthairs have no longer been allowed to be called \u201cChartreux\u201d. The official breed titles are \u201cChartreux\u201d (CHA) and \u201cBritish Shorthair\u201d (BRI).<\/p>\n

A similar debate raged with breeders of the European Shorthair, which was and is particularly popular in Scandinavian countries. Even today, this cat is pure bred, and, just like every other pure-bred cat, has its own pedigree.<\/p>\n

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Until the 1980s, cat shows combined European Shorthairs and British Shorthairs into one category for exhibition and ranking. The judges tended to prefer the British \u2013 probably because their more compact body and rounder head made them look cuter. Scandinavian breeders were not impressed by this development, and wanted their preferred cat breed to be maintained. They pressed for FIFe to recognise the European Shorthair \u2013 which it eventually did.<\/p>\n

The leap across the pond to the USA was made by the first British Shorthair cats in 1900, and it is likely that they are partly responsible for the American Shorthair breed. Until 1950, the imported British Shorthair was registered in the USA as the Domestic Shorthair. This changed in 1967, when Mrs Levy of Long Island imported two blue British Shorthair cats. She showed the animals at exhibitions held by two large breeder organisations of the period in the USA (the CFF and the ACA) \u2013 with great success.<\/p>\n

But British Shorthair cats were still registered as Domestic Shorthairs or American Shorthairs until American breeders kicked up a fuss, complaining that British Shorthairs at shows were groomed better than their animals. It was only in 1980 that the CFA (probably the largest breeding association in the world) recognised the British Shorthair as a breed in itself.<\/p>\n

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In Europe, British Shorthair cats grew in popularity thanks to their use in TV adverts for Whiskas (Silver Classic Tabby) and Sheba (blue British Shorthair).<\/p>\n

Today, British Shorthair cats are available in a range of colours. One colour, with two or three colours, tabby cats and with tiger stripes. There\u2019s blue, cream, lilac, black\u2026<\/p>\n

Even if their coats come in a rainbow of colours: all British Shorthairs share the same kind, gentle nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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