 Purred: Tue Jun 24, '08 11:25am PST |
 | |  | | Hi! My Missy is a chocolate tabby and she's a longhair, too.
When i did a "world-wide" search on the Web for the longhair Brits i found QUITE a few people working with the longhairs exclusively--but they were almost exclusively French and Scandinavian.
I think our chances of the English Council of the CatFancy and our own American CFA "accepting" the longhairs is virtually nil--just like, even though the English had to out-cross to the Persians after both world wars, that is now considered practically anathema--though in both periods of our cat breed history, at the time{s} it was the ONLY way to get back good thick cobby type and temperament after the near dissolution of our breed during these times of war.
I mean, in those times of world war they even had to use Burmese and other Asian breeds just to keep what few true BritishShorthair were left...GOING.
You know what i mean?
It's just one of those things where what's accepted and bred in some other countries{longhair breeding programs} and has remained, to this day, as valid in those countries has been "weaned" out and bred out in America and the U.K. because once we got true BritishShorthair "type" and temperament back (the allowable outcrossing to Persian during both world wars as previously mentioned) the cat fancies of both the U.K. and U.S. said, "Ok, enuf, we have a big enuf gene pool again and the breed is SAFE".
Kinda like that.
It makes sense in that it keeps the BritishShorthair a BritishShorthair, instead of a "PersianBritishShorthair" or some such.
I'm so glad you're here--I wouldn't trade my sweet FatMissy longhair for all the Shorthair grands in the world! |  |  | |  |
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