Cats
to introduce the white spotting pattern. Paul Beall, Richmond, Texas is one such breeder.
Paula's photo (left) shows a bicolour (piebald) Himalayan, but unfortunately this cat has not
produced piebald-point kittens and Paula has decided not to reintroduce the gene from
Persians. At present, Paula is working with the cinnamon gene in Himalayans; though the
gene should have been present in Siamese cats used to develop the Himalayan, it does not
seem to hve shown up in the Himalayn breed and breeders may have to introduce it using
out-crosses to Persians.
For a while in the 1950s there was a French breed known as the Khmer. It resembled a semi-
longhair colourpoint and was apparently overtaken by the Himalayan. "La Vie a Campagne",
1935 dated Khmers back to the 1920s and the photographs resembled early Colourpoint
Persians. The story goes that a pair was taken to Paris and abandoned there by a returned
serviceman from Indochina
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