Seal Point Siamese Cat in Thailand

This is an interesting photo of a Siamese cat in Siam - well it is called Thailand now but does this cat give us a clue as to what the original Siamese cat looked like before being picked up by the English cat fancy in the late 1800s.

The picture was taken where the marker in this map indicates:


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This is the photo:

Seal Point Siamese Temple Cat in Thailand

You can see that this cat is not oriental in shape but mid range moggie shape (semi-cobby) and a little fat actually!

Cat breeders in the USA justify breeding very slender cats on the basis that the shape is what the Siamese cat was like in Thailand - rubbish obviously. Or if they don't try and justify selective breeding in that way they are clearly breeding cats that are unnatural and unpopular with the public.

You can see the tabby banding on the forelegs. This cat has, it seems, an element of tabby pointing about him (lynx points).

Feral Lynx Point Siamese Cat

Feral Lynx Point Siamese Cat - Photo: by anyjazz65

Here is a picture from a Flickr photographer of an applehead (traditional) feral lynx point Siamese cat. This is interesting I think. Is this a genuine feral cat or a stray purebred traditional Siamese cat?

You do get feral Siamese cats though. It is hard to visualise the such an exotic cat (as it was once described in the early 1900s) being feral and unwanted.

Anyone who likes the appearance of the lynx point Siamese should try and track this cat down and adopt him or her! Of course she is not purebred without documents to prove that but the appearance is very attractive.