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Old 11-05-2009, 01:42 PM
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Re: siamese / oriental cats

To refer to an oriental as a siamese varient, you obviously do not understand siamese/oriental genetics!!

The initial siamese outcrosses used to create the oriental breed, did not immediately create a showable oriental they were short hairs of oriental type placed on the experimental register, it took 5/6 generations of careful breeding to have a showable pedigree oriental short hair.

To take two established breeds mated together is a cross breed and remains that way until you have 5/6 generations of careful breeding.

Enlighten me - so when you mate a bengal to an oriental - what makes the perfect serengeti kitten that you would look for to progress the "breed", because to the uninitiated they just look like bengals with slightly larger ears.

Place an oriental shorthair next to a siamese and there is a clear difference, they look like two different cats, even to joe public.
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