HAVANAH BROWN
The Havana Brown was created in Great Britain during the 1950s, but brown cats first appeared at cat shows more thatn one hundred years ago. Some of the earliest cats imported from Siam by English cat fanciers were solid brown cat said to belong to breed called the Swiss Mountain Cat was exhibited in England. And in 1928 the Siamese Cat Club of Britain presented a special award to the cat with the best chocolate body in show. By 1930, the Siamese Cat Club had decided that it was unable to encourage the breeding of any but blue-eyed Siamese. Therefore, brown cats were not seen in England again until 1954, when photographs of two chestnut-colored kittens appeared in the August edition of the journal Our Cats. These kittens were called Bronze Leaf and Bronze Wing. They were from the Craigiehilloch cattery of Mrs. R. Clark in Reading, County Berkshire. The mother of the kittens was a seal point Siamese name Our Miss Smith. Their father was Elmtower Bronze Idol, a brown hybrid who was the first Havana registered in England. Bronze Idol’s mother was a black domestic shorthair by a seal point Saimese, Idol’s father was also a seal point Siamese.
