Cats
Cats imported from Turkey were
mostly whites with a short, soft, silky top coat and little undercoat (and no woolliness in the
undercoat). Those from Russia, Afghanistan and Persia were mostly black or blue and less
foreign in type. The Angora has a ruff, breeches and a plumy tail, but unlike the later Persian,
its coat followed the lines of its body due to the absence of woolly "padding" beneath. The
Russian Angoras had green rather than blue, eyes.
A letter from M Lottin de la Val, President of the Imperial Acclimatation Society, to the
President of the French Zoological Society in 1856 stated, "When you recently did me the
honour of calling on me, you imparted the recently held view that the so called 'Angora' cat
does not exist or could not exist except in the vicinity of ancient Ancyra. I hasten to dispel
this illusion. I myself came upon specimens of that lovely feline species in the great Armenian
annaabi.ee 
