Havana Brown Kittens

Havana Brown Kittens for Sale

The Havana Brown is an American breed developed from the cat now known in Britain as the Havana. In 1952 the crossing of Siamese with black shorthairs, in an effort to produce black-pointed cats, produced a brown kitten, variously called an Oriental Chocolate Cat and a Havana and ancestor of the variety recognized six years later by the GCCF as the Chestnut Brown Foreign Shorthair, a name later changed back to Havana. The British breed aimed to maintain strong Siamese type but Chestnut Browns taken to the USA in the mid 1950s were less `type' and they were not bred back to Siamese. These became the Havana Brown whose standards are related more to those for the Russian Blue than those of the Siamese.