BALINESE
During the 1930s and 1940s there had been many attempts to produce a longhaired pointed cat. Among the by-products of these experiments were shorthaired, pointed cats. Most of these were placed in pet homes, but some were registered as Siamese. All associations permitted the registration of cats of unknown origin. Thus, a number of Siamese-Persian hybrids that carried a recessive gene for a long hair made their way into Siamese breeding programs. Whenever two of these longhair carriers were bred, the chances of getting semilong-haired Siamese Kittens were one out of four on the average, and this happened frequently.
Posted November 8, 2000
