Hi,
My name is Amanda. I live with my family at Fir Tree Kennels and Cattery in Manchester. My passion and my dear friends are my Siamese Colourpoint cats, hence them being here with us at Fir Tree.

When you are choosing to have a cat as a pet, a Siamese has to be the best choice you will ever make. They are intelligent, cheeky, fun and loving as well as witty and more than capable of getting their point across - whatever their point is at the time - SERIOUSLY!! Once you have lived with a Siamese, there's just no going back to any other companion. 

About the Siamese Colourpoint

The Siamese cat has a longer, slender body, an angular wedge-shaped face with almond eyes that slant towards the nose. This body type is the same across the colourpoint, shorthair and Oriental breeds - which differ from the Siamese only in colouring and marking. The fur is soft, glossy and very short, lying close to the body. Accepted colourpoints for the Siamese include lilac, blue, seal and chocolate, with some other variants being acceptable in the colourpoint short hair. A medium sized slender cat with long tapering lines, very lithe but muscular. Males may be proportionately larger than females.

The Colourpoint's Temperament

Siamese are affectionate and intelligent cats, renowned for their social nature. They enjoy being with people and are sometimes described as "extroverts". They are extremely vocal, with a loud, low-pitched voice - known as "Meezer", from which they get one of their nicknames - that has been compared to the cries of a human baby, and persistent in demanding attention. They also have a great need for human companionship. Often they bond strongly to a single person. These cats are typically active and playful, even as adults.

The social orientation of Siamese cats may be related to their lessened ability to live independent of humans. Siamese coat colouration is appealing to humans, but is ineffective for camouflage purposes. They are less active at night than most cats, possibly because their blue eyes lack a tapetum lucidum, a structure which amplifies dim light in the eyes of other cats. Like blue-eyed white cats, they may also have reduced hearing ability. Therefore, being dependent on humans may have been a survival trait for ancestors of the Siamese.

History of The Siamese Colourpoint

Siamese cats (in Thai, wichien-maat) have existed for centuries in Thailand (formerly Siam). The pointed cat known in the West as "Siamese" is one of several breeds of cats from Siam described and illustrated in manuscripts called "Tamra Maew" (Cat Poems), estimated to have been written in the 1700s.

In the 1950s - 1960s, as the Siamese was increasing in popularity, many breeders and cat show judges began to favour the more slender look and as a result of generations of selective breeding, created increasingly long, fine-boned, narrow-headed cats; eventually the modern show Siamese was bred to be extremely elongated, with thin, tubular bodies, long, slender legs, a whip-thin tail and long, narrow, wedge-shaped heads topped by extremely large, wide-set ears. The major cat organisations altered language and/or interpretation of their official breed standards to favour this newer streamlined type of Siamese.

Colourpoint Shorthair - a Siamese-type cat registered by CFA (USA body) with pointed coat colours aside from the traditional CFA Siamese coat colours; originally developed by crosses with other shorthair cats. Considered to be part of the Siamese breed in all other cat associations, but considered a separate breed in CFA. Variations can include Lynx Points and Tortie Points.  In the UK we have the CFA's equivalent in the GCCF (Governing Council of the Cat Fancy).