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SHORT HAIRED CATS

SHORT-HAIRED HAVANA

One of the aims in every branch of the livestock fancy is to produce as many different but distinctive colour variation as possible.
In fact Cat Fancy, several new colour breeds or varieties of breed have been produced over the years, one of which is the Havana, which was first known as the Chestnut Brown Foreign. Produced as the result of careful cross-breeding, this most attractive variety is doing very well at the shows.
The Havana is purely ‘self’ in colour all over, the colour being similar to that displayed at the extremities of the points of the Siamese chocolate-pointed cat. It has also been referred to as tobacco colour, mahogany or chestnut, and is quite different in appearance from the brown coat of the Burmese cat. In the latter, the points are slightly darker in colour than the rest of the body, although this is not nearly so pronounced as in the Siamese.
The kittens are born the same colour as they will remain when fully grown up, and they show no shading to a darker or lighter colour on any part of their body, except perhaps during the summer moult when the old coat sometimes appears rusty. The same is observed in Blacks and Blues, whose coat colour is also adversely affected by sunlight. The nose, lips and whiskers are brown like the coats, but the pads are a pinkish shade of brown.

Standard

Havana Short-haired cats are of foreign type. They are fine in bone, lithe and sinuous and of graceful proportions. The coat is a rich brown, even and sound; whiskers and nose to be of the same colour as the coat. The pads of the feet are a pinkish shade. The eyes are green.

Coat Any shade of rich chestnut brown, short and glossy, even
the sound throughout.

Head and
ears Head long and well-proportioned, narrowing to a fine muzzle.
Ears large and well pricked, wide at the base with good width
between.

Body, legs
and tail Body long, lithe and well muscled, graceful in outline. Legs
slim and dainty, hind legs slightly higher than front legs. Paws
oval and neat. Long whip tail, no kink.

Eyes Slanting and oriental in shape. Decidedly green in colour.

Scale of Points Points

Coat 30
Head 15
Body 15
Legs 15
Tail 5
Eyes 10
Condition 10

Faults Tabby or other markings, dark points, white spots or hairs.
Cobby shape, round head, short thick or kinked tail.