Discussion about Don Sphynxes:

O. Mironova
”Straightfured kittens from ”Dons” and Siberians, or from ”Dons” and Europeans must be registered as Siberian variant or Eropean variant.”
 

”Cats” Encyclopaedy

”P. Borodin mentions about…predators, such as tigers, lynxes, lions…carriers of ‘siamese gene of albinism’

Magazine ‘Drug’ article by O. Fedorova “Siberian + Mask”
 

Seminar ICJF about British Shorthair breed

E. A. Shevchenko
”British short hair cat must have ’stop’, but term ’stop’ must be understood not like ‘deep stop of PERSIAN of EXTREME type,’ but visible transition from forehead to the nose. The same meaning has an English term ‘break’. Standard Governing Council Cat Fancy: “…straight nose with a nose break which is neither too pronounced, not too shallow”…”

L. K. Ovchinnikova

“I won’t give titles to such cats anyway.”

E. A. Shevchenko

“Disadvantage of many of our British cats – flat foreheads, although the standard talks about round head “round, with filled cheeks, round forehead, which emphasizes the roundness of the whole head”, “in the profile – round forehead transfers to the wide nose” . “

O. Mironova

“Where did you find out that British must have round foreheads?” – draws a picture of flat forehead…

E. A. Shevchenko

“It’s written in the standard ‘round’, translation means ‘round’.”

L. K. Ovchinnikova

“In this case, the word ‘round’ must be translated as ‘rounded’ and not like ‘round’.”

E. A. Shevchenko
“But standards of international associations practice of expertise and breeding tells us that British must have a ‘round’ head, and ‘round’ forehead accordingly.”

O. Mironova (interrupting)

“What ever – who knows what they write in their standards! They even don’t know their own language! Why do we need to look at somebody else’s standards, we must write our own and work according to them!”

S. Ponomaryova

“But the whole world works according to these standards! Why do we have to invent our own weal? Where will we go with such animals? Who is going to judge us?”

E. A. Shevchenko

“Let’s invent a standard for British, taking as a base the cats that O. Mironova has in her club, let’s invent bicycle, our own geography…”

O. Mironova

“But only Persians have round heads! For example, the cat on this picture – is for sure half Persian! (Picture of a male from British cattery, his blood is almost in all best catteries of Europe)

E. A. Shevchenko

“This cat is from England, if he has Persians – it must be somewhere 60 generations back!”

O. Mironova

“What are you telling me! I can see by the fur that it’s half Persian!”

E. A. Shevchenko

“So how did you touch the fur through the picture?”

O. Mironova

“Such important moment of standard - ‘pig’s cheeks’ is not mentioned yet.”

T. Medvedeva

“There are no such terms or requirements in the standard.”

O. Mironova

“Then it’s needed to be added – it’s very important!”
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O.Mironova

“By the way, there are no good Scottish Folds in Russia! I didn’t see them at the exhibitions!”

S. Krasnosel’skaya

“How is that, there are good cat, for example American lines, cattery Rozova…”

Mironova swings her hand – “There are no Scottish.”