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Chocolate Point

Chocolate point Siamese also come in different shades of chocolate. Think milk chocolate and “almost” dark chocolate, with both colors having a white chocolate body. Milk chocolate is the ideal color, indeed the color in most Standards, with paw pads and nose leather a cinnamon pink. The lighter the point color of a chocolate point Siamese, the less developed will be the point color in a young cat. Chocolate point Siamese must mature into full masks and complete stockings, and the body must stay light to preserve that dramatic contrast.

Blue Point

Blue is not blue in the cat world; blue is slate gray. A blue point Siamese has a bluish-white body with paw pads and nose leather a slate gray. The color is difficult to attain to perfection, primarily because of the nature of the polygenes that affect its development. Over the years, breeders have tried to work with “color-bred blues.” The problem lies in the tendency, over time, for the color to migrate into the body when blue point is bred to blue point. Once again, an ideal Siamese of whatever color must have that remarkable contrast between body color and point color.

Lilac Point

Lilac point Siamese are the most delicately colored of the four Siamese colors, with pinkish-gray points on a glacial white body. What the color lacks in vibrant contrast of body to points is more than offset by deep blue eye color. The porcelain-like visual effect of elegance is not unlike the aesthetic of blue-and-white china.

Why do CFA Siamese breeders insist that a Siamese comes in only four colors? It has little to do with color genetics and everything to do with the history of the breed and the difficulty of Siamese color. Imported into England in the last quarter of the 19 th century and bred in Siam ( Thailand) for generations before, the Siamese entered our lives as a seal point breed of domestic cat in the dawn of the organized cat fancy. As geological time goes, that is nothing; in terms of the cat fancy and generations of Siamese, that is everything. Seal points were registered and shown in the United States at the beginning of the 20 th century and in the first shows of CFA, organized in 1906. The dilution of black, or seal point, is blue, as is chocolate. Lilac is dilute, or recessive, to all three. We know that chocolate points occurred in English litters from the beginning, and we also know that breeders there quickly found homes for them. The incidence of blue is less clear, but there is no question that blue cats were present in Siam. Following England’s lead, CFA recognized the blue point in 1934, the chocolate point in 1952, and the U.S. led the way in 1955 by recognizing the lilac point. By the time red, the O gene, was introduced into a small part of the Siamese gene pool, along with the tabby (lynx) points, many generations of Siamese had been born in this country and selection made for the non-agouti, ticked tabby pattern in order to produce clear coats with no spotting or barring. (A reminder: All cats are basically tabby.) Siamese breeders decided to adhere strictly to A.C. Jude’s definition of a Siamese in his Cat Genetics: A cat with solid color restricted to the points. To do this meant to avoid the O gene and any introduction of agouti. In any event, by this time the Siamese was, in cat fancy parlance, an old, established breed. At this writing, Siamese in all four colors have been on the CFA show bench for more than half a century, longer than the existence of the majority of the breeds recognized around the world. As for the seal point Siamese, it is the granddaddy of them all!

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