Old-style Siamese Cats

 

 

I first became interested in the 'old-style Siamese about 9 years ago when I went to purchase a Siamese cat and could not believe how much they had change. While I was in hospital a friend bought me a cat magazine, inside was a letter about how the Siamese cat had changed - as they say the rest is history. In 2000, a group of friends met in the midlands and the Old-style Siamese Club was born

What can you say about Siamese Cats?
They are the extroverts of the cat world.
Everything is done at top speed.

When you are 5 minutes late they let you know, nag nag nag, yet they are the most loving of cats. Wanting to be with you all the time. They can be ''parrot cats'' - preferring to spend time traveling around the house on their 'willing slaves' shoulders
I breed old-style i.e. the type that was breed during the 1950s to 1970s

 

 

 

An Old-style Siamese is not just a poor-quality (or 'pet-quality') show Siamese. Old-style Siamese meet the standard of points for the Siamese, without the extreme look of some show Siamese.

Applehead Siamese
There have never been appleheads in Britain-the applehead is something invented in America, often by outcrossing to other breeds such as the British Shorthair. This shortens the head and in many cases has gone as far from the original imported Siamese as the modern show cat, just in the opposite direction. None of the earliest pictures of the Siamese show appleheads, though the cats were cobbier than today's cats. A very few early pictures of Siamese from the late 1800s show a round-headed cat, but actually this is simply a male cat with a narrower head who has developed heavy jowls-some old-style studs look like this. These very cobby cats were also not Siamese as we know them: they were hybrids corresponding genetically to the modern-day Tonkinese.


Taken from the Old-style Siamese club publication

For more information please go the Old-style Siamese Club

www.oldstylesiamese.co.uk

 

My Siamese Click on picture to enter - thanks Maggie

Queens

Stud - Ametrine Thahan

 

Kittens

Pease click picture to enter - thanks Maggie