However they were unknown outside of Russia until borders with Western Europe began to open up. Meanwhile the “Russian Blue,” Sene, won two Firsts in Open Classes and Best in Show (ex Siamese) as a kitten. Blue’s come in Blue Smoke and Blue Tortie Smoke. Karelians are bred in all colours and patterns, with or without white. The ears are large and set high and wide apart. This paring produced 4 kittens, one of which was curly. That meant the blue offspring of a Russian White crossed to a Russian Blue could be registered as Russian Blues. Kunashir lines are longhaired only and weigh 4 - 5 kgs. The Kurilian Bobtail originated on the Kuril Islands, claimed by both Russia and Japan, as well as Sakhalin Island and the Kamchatka peninsula of Russia (the 56 Kurilian volcanic islands extend 700 miles from the easternmost point of Russia to the tip of Japan's Hokkaido Island). Another thing that makes this little girl even more unusual is that although she is blue – one leg is not blue but is black tortoiseshell. She also eats for England and raids the bin from time to time… but is the most placid cat ever when you stroke her. They are also intelligent and can learn to open doors and turning on water taps. a blue/cream tortie with black patches, or a … She’s sleeping on my legs as I type this…. Besides if we are going to have a "White Russian" then I can only suggest that we be American about the whole thing and immediately produce a "Red Russian.". The fur of the Russian-bred Fleecy Cloud breed is distinguished by its large, elastic curls that are soft to the touch. (3) Very talkative. The Ussuri was described as a rare natural breed originating from Russia's Amur River region. The fourth generation of Russian Whites achieved full recognition from the Royal Agricultural Society Cat Club of New South Wales in November 1975. It has long been considered that they were the products of outcrosses to what we now call Russian Blues [note: many were early Korats]. Unlike modern Siamese it is rectangular rather than tubular. Now, look what she’s done to my fur!” And, he’d commence cleaning himself, and putting his fur to rights. Semi-wild Ussuris then bred naturally with local domestic cats including European Shorthairs and Siberians. Others crossed it to the British Blue to preserve the colour. She is a joy of a companion. She is although demanding a very loving cat and loves to play. It resulted in there being no Manx gene nor any relation to any other bobtail breed (e.g., Japanese Bobtail, Kurilian Bobtail), and the conclusion was we are dealing with an entire new bobtail mutation. My daughter’s blue tortie runs and body slams our Siberian and American short hair, she demands that she is center of attention. gender. Toybobs are bred in both shorthair and longhair (semi) varieties in a wide range of colors, although pointed colors are the most common. Bluepoints began to show-up in the area shortly thereafter. Sylvester became Bambi’s ” mother”. My dilut is also very sweet but not nearly as shy. Siegfried (b. Individuals who love the cat can't imagine life without one, and many can't imagine life without two or three. Yes, many believe that our present day Russians are from the "Russian Archangel" and this may very well be the case; however, through the years the tat now registered in the stud books and shown in our shows no longer conforms to this coat type, but has been established as Russian Blue by name and has a very dense short cropped coat as one of its breed's identifying features. The first was that it came from the Bohemia Rex (aka Czech Curly Cat), a rex-coated Persian-type cat bred in the mid-1980s in Czechoslovakia. I wouldn’t have her any other way! It is not known if blue-cream or dilute torties behave any differently to ‘normal’ tortoiseshell cats, or if their tortitude is any less noticeable. Hargreaves felt sure that hereditary factors, as well as environmental ones, were involved. Buyers of kittens for breeding should always study the pedigrees beforehand and demand further information whenever outcross breeds were shown. I have 3 other Torties along with a Tuxie and Russian Blue. I rescued a Momma tortie and her 4 kittens, one of which was a dilute blue/cream. author Dr. Olga Mironova be given to all Toybob cats in development. Any suggestions? In some European registries, it is treated as a long-haired Russian Blue, or Russian Semi-Longhair (just as the Russian Blue is a Blue Russian Shorthair). However, cats from her bloodlines became the foundation stock for many catteries in Russia today. In 1997 a breeding program was set up in Moscow using two females Merlushka and Bonny, and a male Clyde (or Clide). Full development of the waves can take up to two years. The history of the Siberian breed began in the 1980s with the birth of the cat fancy in the Soviet Union. In the 2000s, due to significant differences in breeding plans, the Toybob breed split into the two distinct breed groups from two different regions; the Rostov bred Skif-Thai-Don and the Ural bred Scyth-Toy-Bob. How do you feel your older resident cat took to having not 1 But 2 new comers? I have a blue torbie and yes she has as much tude as her tortishell mama! For 4 generations, the best white female from each litter were bred to a total of seven Russian Blue males. Feline traits notwithstanding, the Toybob has all of the qualities one looks for in a companion cat. The Toybob cat is often referred to as one of the smallest of all cat breeds and is a small cat that should not grow any larger than the size of a 6-month-old kitten of a well-developed domestic cat. 1984) and Brunhilde (b. In the case of the dominant white system there are no valid reports [. She fears the great outdoors but loves sitting, looking out of the window. One of the “Balinese” was later transferred to the Siberian category. of two non-white cats ever producing a kitten which was white due to this allele. The Types of … The table shows the matings and the number and breed [what the 21st Century breeder would call colour] of the offspring. Feb 2, 2020 - Explore Tilly Twinkle's board "Tortie Girls", followed by 819 people on Pinterest. The Kurilian Bobtail gained Championship status with TICA in 2012. Boy oh boy is she sassy and busy! American breeders used stock from Scandinavia and Britain and worked to eliminate any Siamese traits. The hereditary of voice was not known and “voice” and “talkativeness” were not recorded on pedigrees. Jasmine’s litter with Edelweiss produced 2 smooth-coated females, a blue and a blue-and-white bicolour. It then took the Royal Agricultural Society Cat Club (RASCC) of NSW (the cat control registry of the time) 2 years to grant permission to develop the Russian White as an experimental breed. And if a Tortie cat has the dilute genes, he will be known as a Blue Creme. It’s like having a toddler in the house. A blue tortoiseshell cat has a patched coat that is a variation of the tortoiseshell pattern. Russian Shorthairs tend to be quiet-voiced, and can be shy and cautious with strangers, but are playful and affectionate with their owners. Blue-eyed or Odd-eyed Russian Whites can be registered with the GCCF, but not bred and can only be exhibited in pet classes. It is fairly certain that during' World War II the British did produce some rather interesting combinations in their cats. There was a prevailing opinion among the public that Siamese kittens were not as strong as others, and many reportedly did not reach maturity. At Cattery Ladoga, in the Netherlands, a number of blue points were born: a colourpointed male from Russian Blue parents in 2013; two blue-point Nebelugs from the same Russian Blue female and a Nebelung male in 2014; a blue Nebelung male from a Russian blue female and Nebelung male in 2015; and a blue-point Russian from a Russian Blue female and Nebelung mle in 2016. It is currently only recognised by Ukrainian and Russian cat clubs. Wonderful descriptions of their coloring and personalities! I would appreciate your thoughts on this timely topic [. It is so cute how little Nala follows Pinky around the house. Many years ago the late Milan Greer exhibited his "$5,000," or some such fabulous sum, "Russian Archangel." TOYBOB (FORMERLY SKIF-THAI-DON AND SKIF-TOY-BOB). I have never known her to be aggressive but she swiped at one and had a stare down with another needless to say they had to go because Nakita said so! He also carried blue. The big-eyed expression is what gives the Toybob its sweet-faced look. Hi I read your post and find myself in a similar situation. On the other hand, it was not so unusual for rex-coated Scottish Folds to appear in Russia. It may be the original source of the bobtailed trait in the Japanese Bobtail breed (which was developed in the USA) The Kurilian’s bobbed tail is due to an incomplete dominant gene, while the similarly named Karelian’s bobbed tail is a recessive gene. The females often bond closely to only a single mate who may take an interest in rearing the kittens. I love my blue dilute tortie her name is Nakita. It is estimated that only about 10% of cat allergy sufferers are allergic to Siberian cats (because they are allergic to other proteins). The Karelian Bobtail originated as a natural breed in the Republic of Karelia along the coast and on the islands of Lake Ladoga. The Russian Blue cat is recognizable by his beautiful green eyes and a striking blue coat that has a lustrous sheen. This moring seeing a new vet she used the words Blue Cream Tortie. The colors are often described as red and black, but the "red" patches can instead be orange, yellow, or cream, and the "black" can instead be chocolate, gray, tabby, or blue. In January 2014, a strange curly-haired kitten was born in the litter of pure-bred Scottish cats Daryl White and her son, Nestor Petrovich, owned by breeder Margarita Egorova. The hybrid offspring breed together and their offspring retain the same percentage of wild blood (on average) as the parents. The original breeding pair of "Siamese" were reportedly Sealpoints. In August 1990 it was formally recognised in two varieties: Siberian and "Nevskaya Masquerade.". The possibility of the Devon Rex gene entering the Scottish Fold gene pool could not be ruled out without testing. Siberians and Neva Masquerades arrived in the USA during the 1990s. My regular tortie sleeps beside me or on my ankles and my dilut tort will sleep on my stomach. It too had this type of coat but was blue in color. Awe yes gets me every time! It was renamed Mekong Bobtail to avoid confusion with the already recognised Thai. Ultimately the solid blues found favour and the other colours vanished in the western cat fancy until quite recently. When the two breeders met, they realised that they had the same goal and decided to work together. A few offspring were Siamese in colour but not in build. Sjtsjoekin was mated to a Russian Black female derived from chi from the UK Russian Black line. Before the breed was established, if any asked what a Siberian cat was the answers would be “large and fluffy” and "not white," because everyone knew that fluffy white cats were Angoras! Because of its free-roaming ancestry and the effects of natural selection it had no known genetic defects or health issues. Let us know your Tortitude stories. Mavis Jones described her breeding programme in a letter to the Russian Blue Newsletter in 1977. Hargreaves asked if the Russian Blue of the future might have undesirable Siamese qualities. a cat born with a fur pattern resembling the mottled red and black tortoiseshell material Ussuris preferred to hunt real prey rather than play with toys. .] It was registered by the GCCF (UK) as Arctic Chumvi, an “any other variety, foreign type.” Because the 1960s Russian Blue gene pool was small, there were limited out-crossings to blue-point Siamese and domestic cats. No Black Shorthair stud was available at that time so the chosen stud was a Russian Blue, and she sent her Siamese queen, Laurentide Ludo, to be mated to Champion Silvershoen Blue Peter. Fleecy Cloud kittens are born with very short hair and appear smaller than their smooth-haired littermates. The lilac female was assumed to be a carrier of the curly gene and was mated to an unrelated bicolor Scottish cat who was also was a gene carrier. Early in 1948 Mrs Hargreaves decided to carry out some breeding experiments with Siamese cats, the principal object being to establish a more robust strain. In the case of piebald white-spotting there are indications of variable expressivity and possibly incomplete penetrance. Blue-pointed Russians and Lilacs have also occurred. Your comments on this subject are respected by cat fanciers at large. It had to be semi-longhair, but the local cat populations varied in conformation so cat fanciers had to decide what features to fix in their new breed, partly based on the prevailing type and partly based on making the Siberian cat distinct from the Maine Coon and Norwegian Forest Cat. Around 1989, she was bred to a neighbouring tomcat and produced several hairless kittens, demonstrating the mutation to be a dominant gene. The coat looks impressive and the curls never droop, but look more like fleecy clouds, hence the name. Their hair lies in rows along the back and across the legs. Her personality is more similar to a loyal dog than to other cats that we have had in the past. Fleecy Clouds look very different from Scottish Folds. This piqued the interest of Western cat fanciers so that all of the breeds described, excepting the Ussuri, are now bred and shown outside of their home country. I hope you come back and write a comment on how it’s all going, and what they’ve all done. Greater emphasis was placed on head-shape and broad low cheekbones (found in the Leningrad and St Petersburg populations) in the standard of the POF club in 1991. In the wild state, it is an excellent fisherman and hunter, and domestic Kurilians enjoy playing in water. The Ukrainian Levkoy has a slender, medium-to-long, muscular body and long legs. As a reader of “National Cat” in the pre-WWW 1990s, I was aware of these “other colour” Russians. The occurrence of rex-coated Scottish Folds was also mentioned in specialist felinological literature. The fur is fine, but very dense. She wasn’t dumb. Does you cat have it? Many letters have come to me from long-time Russian breeders insisting they have never had a white Russian. Now since the Russian Blues are noted for their very short dense coats, this type of coat would not be expected, no matter how you rearranged the normal modifiers in the now existing Russian Blues I have seen in our show rooms over the past ten or fifteen years. My little baby was rescued at 8 weeks old by myself and she is veryyyyy vocal. Although most torties will have a brindled coat with very few white patches and colours including black, red, orange and brown – there are several variations and the blue tortoiseshell cat has a coat that includes blue and cream patches, providing a lighter and more pastel like colour. All information about its appearance comes from the article distributed in English in the mid-1990s. However, Their rodent-hunting skills made them popular pets. I have a blue cream tortie who is the most amazing, affectionate cat in the world. If your kitty is a blue tortie, it has very little or no white fur. Female. According to local people the variety existed as free roaming domestic cats since the 1940s, but were never selectively bred. With this post you can tell I talk rather fast and a lot and there is times she will put a paw on my mouth like she is telling me “shut up” cracks me up! Hargreaves continued to develop her Seal Pointed “Siamese”, Blue Pointed “Siamese,” and “Russian Blue” from the strains created, registering and exhibiting the progeny by phenotype, using breed names. Two litters of kittens were born one after another to Jeanette and Jasmine, daughters of the Siberian outcross cat Anfisa. The Pika Blue is a colourpointed variant of the Russian Blue and Nebelung. But those kittens would, if mated back to a Blue Pointed Siamese, also produce Blue Points as well as Russians. Ukrainian Levkoys are sociable, friendly, playful, and intelligent. A white cat must have a white parent. She loves playing though, and is great fun. At least one of the two parents has to be white. She is getting used to being picked up but prefers to get places under her own steam. Every kitten that left the Joneses cattery had to be neutered, and no other cattery could participate in the breeding programme. When a White Russian Shorthair stud from Australia was imported into the USA, it caused great controversy. Fedyaeva had observed that cats of very similar phenotypes to the Toybob were spotted living locally around barns and streets in her region. Why did the breeding programme fail to create a housepet and exhibition cat? The Siberians exported earlier to East Germany and Czechoslovakia had been the non-pedigree versions that were lighter in type. 1961), which came from a Russian boat. A sweet tempered cat, the Maine Coon is a highly adaptable to any environment and features a heavy, but silky coat. The cats have wide heads which makes the body look small. The battle-cry “a Russian Blue can only be blue” is nonsensical since a Russian Shorthair of any other colour is a Russian White, Russian Black etc, not a Russian Blue (and certainly not a “white Russian Blue”!). Baby cats, and no mom.” Then think,” Guess I’ll have to mother the poor waifs, myself then.” I had a Male, neutered cat once, a big, black and white cat my kids named Sylvester, of course. Its name hints at snowy landscapes pine forests. Oriental and Domestic cats were also used in breed development. This cat, Winterday Georgin of Nebelheim, came from a Moscow cattery that had bred several prize-winning longhaired Russian Blues over the years. In the feral state, they tend to be smaller. Foundation cats taken from the semi-feral state are said to be easily tamed. When Si-Savat discontinued their breeding program, Natalya Fedyaeva of Little Angel cattery (inactive), acquired from Abramchuk, a small male "Gavrila Fadeevich." I have a tortie who is very timid – she has never been outside, doesn’t show any interest in it (although likes looking through the catflap!) The ears are large and flared out from the wedge-shaped head with a blunted muzzle. Early litters also included silver-striped grey kittens (a colour found in shorthaired cats in Siberia), but the tabby trait disappeared after the 3rd generation. (also known in the longer form, Skif-Thai-Toy-Don). 1985) both resembled Russian Blues, but with semi-longhair coats. She hates being petted unless she comes to you for affection, and will not let me pick her up or hold her for more than 30 seconds if she did not initiate. Some Donskoy cats were mated to Oriental/Siamese in St. Petersburg and Moscow in 1993, resulting in an oriental-type hairless cat. Dear breeders, your Russian Blue has its origin in those street cats, and those street cats weren’t always solid blue! In mitigation, post-war breeding stock was low and every cat that met the physical standard was important. They’d play, and she’d have that cats whole head in her mouth, not biting, just mouthing him, he’d leap on her, playing. Its mature weight was around 12 pounds. The amount of hair may change with the seasons, becoming more dense in the cooler months. I have a brindled tortoiseshell called Whimsy. People living in Kunashir report that bears will run away from Kurilian cats. She loves it when L wad store receipts into balls and flip them her way like marbles, calling in excitement and leaping to catch them in mid air. The best Russian Blues were considered to be those imported from Archangel. When he’d had enough he’d hiss and bat at her, and she’d stop. Either way, the best cat I have ever met… so happy I got her! The growth of the internet and usenet, particularly in the mid 1990s, played an instrumental role when an article containing short descriptions of a number of Russian breeds was circulated. Russian Blue. The breed standard calls for straight ears and permits any colour coat and eyes. The ancestors of this breed were purebred Scottish cats who produced some curly-coated cats. They were both strays and it amazes me how anyone could abandon animals. At the time the breed was registered with TICA, little to no genetic research had been done on the breed to learn more about the unique genes behind the Toybob cat's small size and bobbed tail appearance. Ussuris required free access to outdoors and are unsuited to living in smaller homes or indoor-only. Even an outdoor enclosure was not sufficient for its needs. The kitten had curly whiskers, 'brillo' hair in her ears, and a wavy coat. She is 13 weeks and recently been groomed. Some registries recognise those colourpointed cats separately as Neva Masquerade (“masked cats from Neva”). Although she is a very dignified lady, now, she has not lost her kitten fascination with the water dishes, basically, she picks at them until she overturns them. Jeanette’s first litter with Edelweiss produced 2 curly kittens - a creamy male and a lilac female, and a smooth-coated blue-eyed white variant. Wait List Deposit. Pinky’s best friend Sonny passed away, so I adopted 2 more torties. She doesn’t come out when company comes over. The coat was short, close, glossy and silvery but sometimes rather woolly due to the severity of their native climates and the colour varied from lavender-blue to darker shades. Margarita’s breeding programme was further advanced and had a larger genetic pool so the breed development programme was based on this. My beautiful, blue eyed, lilac tortie colour point British short hair queen and my stunningly handsome, chunky, Russian blue stud Tom have given me a fabulous... 9 pets4homes.co.uk Recognition by other registries has been hampered because there are few 5th generation pedigree Kurilian Bobtails. She is independent in the fact that she does what she wants to do and when she wants to do it, but she is SO loving. In the Unrecognised Long-hair and Semi-longhair section there were 12 Siberian cats, none with registered parents. A similar mutation had appeared in St. Petersburg (Russia) and also in Kazakhstan, where breeders tried to develop a curly-coated Fold. She loves to talk and is very social/playful but it is obvious that she loves me the most. She doesn’t like to be held at all, and will come to me when she wants. At the Riga show in September 1989, 164 cats are listed, half of them Persian. I love my kitty! These were bred to Black British Shorthairs in the hope of improving the fur colour and to Persians to improve the eye colour. The Russian Blue was one of the early fancy breeds. I got my Lily Greycat when she was barely old enough to leave her mum. I’d like to think she’d mother two new kittens, or, even a puppy, but I can’t be sure about her. The Siberian cat is probably the most famous of the Russian breeds and is considered a naturally occurring breed. This means the trait breeds true. TICA recognises it as an entirely separate breed with Russian Blue as an allowable outcross. Puffstuff (CFA) Exotic,Himalayan,Persian MORE. Tennessee. By 2012 there were around 1,500 Mekong Bobtail cats registered with cat clubs in Poland, the Czech Republic, Russia, Belorussia, Latvia and Germany. 1993), a descendant of the Jones’ breeding programme. Everyone who meets her loves her, and she makes it a point to approve of the men in my life. All of the colours can also occur as colourpoints as the colourpointed pattern occurs naturally in parts of Russia. They have a flat plane above the brows, a strong chin, and medium-sized ears set high up and straight. After all the cats are not all that particular about our breed classifications, and some of the breeders tend not to be too cautious - nor, in an organization as large as the Cat Fancy, can we expect everyone to be totally honest. Colourpoints are not permitted. Right from the start, Russian Whites and Russian Bicolours were imported. Kurilian Bobtails are intelligent and independent, and though wild-looking and good hunters in their wild habitat, they are very sociable and gentle cats in the home. It’s coloring consists of pastel blue-gray, orange and peach. The strict rules meant every birth and death had to be reported. DNA from the rex-coated kittens was tested at the Veterinary Genetics Laboratory School of Veterinary Medicine, Davis, California, ruling out the Cornish and Devon rex genes.