English Short Hair Cat

The british shorthair is the oldest natural english breed.

English short hair cat. The breed has also been developed in a wide range of other colours and patterns including tabby and colorpoint. The british shorthair is native to england. There are many varieties all with broad bodies short legs and short thick tails.

At the earliest cat shows british shorthairs were the only pedigreed cats exhibited. All others were simply described by coat type or color. The siamese is a breed of domestic shorthair cat that originated in thailand.

This is one of the oldest english cat breeds and this calm quiet feline has earned a place in households and hearts in britain and beyond for his easygoing manner. It has sapphire blue. With the rise of cat shows during the victorian era cat fanciers began to breed the cats to a particular standard and keep pedigrees for them.

The father of this breed is harrison wier who is thought of as the first professional cat breeder. They often convey an overall impression of balance and proportion in which no feature is exaggerated. The british shorthair is the pedigreed version of the traditional british domestic cat with a distinctively stocky body dense coat and broad face the most familiar color variant is the british blue a solid grey blue coat orange eyes and a medium sized tail.

The british shorthair is the oldest natural english breed of cat.