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Havana
Brown Cat
The Havana Brown Cat is a cat breed that resulted from persistent efforts to develop a completely brown
breed of cat.
In the early 1950s in Britain, a cross between a seal point Siamese
and a black domestic
shorthaired cat with Siamese heritage led to the foundation stock for
the Havana Brown cat.
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Havana
Brown Cat
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The Havana Brown cat is a moderately sized,
muscular short-haired cat with a body of average length.
The coat color must
be brown, typically reddish-brown, with no tabby markings.
Whiskers should
also be brown and the eye color should be green.
The head should be slightly
longer than wide and the nose should have a distinct stop at the eyes.
The Havana Brown cat males
tend to be larger than females and are average in weight compared with other
breeds.
The Havana Brown cat is an intelligent cat that
often uses its paws both to examine objects, and to communicate with its
owners.
The most likely explanation of the breed's name is that its coat
color is very similar to that of Havana cigars.
The Havana Brown cat breed has been recognized for
championship competition in both the US and Britain since the late 1950s.
It
is considered an endangered breed, since the breeding pool is very small.
In
the late 1990s, there were only 12 Cat Fancier Association (CFA)-registered
Havana Brown catteries and under 130 unaltered cats.
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