Cats
British-bred cats: "the most perfect type of a white Persian is assuredly to be found amongst
the imported cats; there is a certain beauty of form and silkiness of fur which is not possessed
by the specimens bred in this country [...] These imported cats are often of a rather savage
disposition, and, although they can be sweet-tempered enough with human beings, they are
extremely fiery with their fellows."
Angora cat by J B Huet, 1808 "Collection des
Mammiferes de Museum d'Histoire Naturelle"
(Paris)
Weir's idealised longhair, 1889
In 1906 a Canadian writer described the conformation of one Persian thus: "His head is
magnificent, and he is short on the leg, has plenty of bone" and the best Persians were
reckoned to come from Britain. In the 1960s, Fernand Mery wrote that the development of
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