Breed Comparisons - Oriental Shorthair

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Oriental Longhair
Oriental Shorthair

Oriental Shorthair

Breed Name	Oriental Shorthair				Oriental Shorthair	Oriental Shorthair	Oriental Shorthair
Recognition status	full	not recognised	not recognised	not recognised	full	full	full	not recognised	not recognised
Breed code	OSH				OSH	OSH	ORI
Allowable outcrosses	Oriental Shorthair and Longhairs may be freely intermated. They may be also intermated with those in Group 2 and their progeny entered in the appropriate register under their recognised breed/type.				Siamese, Oriental Bi-Colour, Oriental Longhair, Foreign White & Balinese.	Siamese, Javanese, Balinese	Siamese
Recognised colours	solid colour: white, black, blue, chocolate, lilac, red, cream, cinnamon, fawn, caramel & apricot only tabby coat pattern: classic, mackerel, spotted, marble, ticked, tipped & shaded plus silver & golden equivalents) smoke coat pattern broken colours: tortie, bi-colour & van				black (brown), blue, chocolate, lilac, red, black tortie, cream, apricot, blue tortie, chocolate tortie, lilac tortie, cinnamon tortie, caramel, caramel tortie, fawn and fawn tortie and the silver and bi-colour versions of all of these. Recognised with classic tabby, mackerel tabby, spotted tabby, ticked tabby and shaded patterns in all the above colours and in both shorthair and longhair varieties. Orientals with harlequin or van pattern are recognised with unspecified tabby pattern in all the above colour and in both shorthair and longhair varieties. Pointed orientals are recognised in all the above colours, and with unspecified tabby pattern in all the above colours and in both shorthair and longhair varieties. Cats with at least one bi-colour parent but showing more or less white than required by the standard shall be registered as bi-colours. Cats displaying some white spotting, but which do not have a bi-colour parent may not be registered as a bi-colour. White Orientals are recognised with blue, green or odd eye colour. All the above are recognised in both shorthai and longhair varieties.	All colours other than pointed	white, black, blue, chocolate, lilac, red, cream, caramel, cinnamon, apricot, fawn, tortoiseshell, smoke, tipped, tabby including silver, bicolours, harlequin, van
Breeding restrictions	none				If a cat is known to have possessed the gene for Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), its progeny should be screened for PKD, either under the FAB/PKD scheme or by a reliable genetic test, before being used for breeding Oriental Shorthairs. If practical and reliable genetic tests become available for Hepatic and/or Renal Amyloidosis, cats should be screened for this before being used for breeding Oriental Shorthairs in order to be aware of the extent of the problem. All red, cream or apricot cats may not be registered as Oriental Selfs or Oriental Smokes until test matings or genetic testing have proved them to be free of the agouti gene. No cat may be registered as a Tabby or Shaded unless it has an agouti parent. In order to be registered as an Oriental Bi-colour, a cat must have at least one Bi-colour parent. Before the registration of any Oriental White on the Active Register, a BAER certificate of freedom from deafness for the cat must be supplied to the GCCF. Matings between Oriental Bi-Colours and Foreign Whites, White Oriental LHs or White Oriental LH Variants are not permitted.	none	none
Special notes	none				In the case of cats imported onto the GCCF register, no cat with an Oriental Longhair, Oriental Longhair Variant, Balinese, Balinese Variant or Oriental Bicolour Longhair within five generations may be registered as an Oriental Shorthair unless it is shown by genetic testing to be free of any FGF5 mutation. All red, cream or apricot bi-colours with one or more Tabby Point, Tabby or Shaded parent(s) must be registered as Red, Cream or Apricot Oriental Tabby or Shaded bi-colours, or as Tabby or Shaded of Oriental etc. type, until proved otherwise. They may not be registered as Self or Smoke bi-colours until test matings, or genetic testing has proved them to be free of the agouti gene.	none	Any offspring from parents other than Siamese or Oriental may not be registered as Oriental.