Wild cat in looks, tender tabby in temperament describes the Ocicat. This breed shines in the presence of people, even those they have met for the first time. Ocicats thrive in households that are full of life and thoroughly enjoy the company of other cats and even dogs. They detest being left at home alone and are known to act out due to boredom’s mundane monotony. They are easy to care for and adapt to new situations with no difficulty. If your desire is to own a cat that interacts with you and your family and loves to engage in cat-to-human conversation, then the Ocicat is the feline fit for you.
The rare Ocicat can now be reserved and shipped to Spokane, from House of Oci, in Southern California. Visit their website http://www.houseofoci-ocicats.com, Email houseofoci@yahoo.com, or telephone Jesse Cordova at 909-800-0887. Ocicats cost from $500-$900
The trademark signature of the Ocicat is the splashing of thumbprint-sized, agouti-spots in a bulls-eye pattern artistically arrayed across its medium-sized, sleek, athletic-looking body. Their coat comes in 12 accepted colors: chocolate, cinnamon, tawny, fawn, blue, lavender, ebony-silver, cinnamon-silver, blue-silver, chocolate-silver, fawn-silver and lavender-silver. If you take a close look, you will see that each hair contains several bands of color. Ocicats are low maintenance pets and a once a week chamois rub across its delightful fur to remove dead hairs will keep its stunning coat looking its best. Males average between 9 and 14 pounds, females weigh between 6 and 9 pounds.
Extremely intelligent, Ocicats are easy-to-train students, quickly learning basic obedience commands. They also take to wearing harnesses and walk on leashes without a single complaint. They love to leap onto very high places with the grace of a gazelle. Make it a point to keep items you don’t want your curious Ocicat to find behind locked cabinets and doors and be sure to childproof the latches!
This cat evolved from taking the best of the Siamese and the Abyssinian. Virginia Daly, a cat breeder from Berkley, Michigan, bred an Abyssinian with a Siamese, producing a gorgeous litter of ticked-coated kittens. The second litter generated a male kitten with a wildcat-looking coat by the name of Tonga. In 1954, Tonga was the first Ocicat shown at a CFA show.
Then for 11 long years, this breed went into a brief hiatus while Virginia Daly took care of a sick family member. She returned to breeding Ocicats in the early 1980s. Further cross-breeding with these two breeds and the addition of the American Shorthair by another American breeder, Tom Brown, brought the Ocicat into being. And ever since then, this remarkable breed has steadily grown in popularity all over the world. .In the 1980s, a separate breed of Ocicats was developed in Germany by Karen Dupris.
In 1987, the Ocicat was granted championship status and is now ranked 18th in popularity among the CFA-recognized breeds.
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