Havana Brown Cat Images

Havana Brown Cat images - The Havana Brown was the result of a planned breeding between Siamese and domestic black cats, by a group of cat fanciers in England, in the 1950s. Early breeders introduced a Siamese type Russian Blue into their breeding. However, using current genetic testing, it is believed that almost none remain in the gene pool. (Wikipedia)

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Havana Brown Cat Images

Havana Brown Source: https://flic.kr/p/9XPLbR. Originally uploaded by user Rikki's Refuge on Flickr. CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).

Havana Brown Source: http://goo.gl/CZxeAd. Originally uploaded by user Karolina C. on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/).

Havana Brown Source: http://goo.gl/dyCU2h. Originally uploaded by user MaanMeis on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).

Havana Brown Source: http://goo.gl/AouyMB. Originally uploaded by user Abujoy on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/).

Images of Havana Brown Cat

Breed development
In the early 1950s a group of English cat fanciers began working together with an intent to create a self brown cat of Foreign Type. They called themselves "The Havana Group", later to become "The Chestnut Brown Group". This group of breeders created the foundation of the Havana Brown cat of today. The ladies credited with this effort include Mrs. Armitage Hargreaves of Laurentide Cattery, Mrs. Munroe-Smith of Elmtower Cattery, the Baroness Von Ullmann of Roofspringer Cattery, Mrs. Elsie Fisher of Praha Cattery, and Mrs. Judd of Crossways Cattery. These breeders, by selectively breeding a Siamese cat which carried the chocolate gene to a black cat that also carried the chocolate gene, were able to produce chestnut (chocolate) colored kittens.
The breed continued to develop in the UK and became known as the Chestnut Brown Oriental and retained the Siamese conformation. Early in the breeding program, two kittens were also exported to Siamese breeders in the USA. Over the next decade, breeding took a different turn as genetic problems began to plague the new breed. It became necessary to utilize other breeds for genetic outcross and the phenotype began to evolve and develop into a different look than what the original breeders in England had intended. This change in direction tore apart the breeding group and caused many difficulties in continuing to progress the breed within the Governing Council of the Cat Fancy. Soon, the Chestnut Brown cat was being produced in many colors, known just as Oriental with a numeric system to designate the coat color.

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