Does the CEO also have a white, blue-eyed, Turkish Angora cat? If so, you have discovered the current lair of Ernst Stavro Blofeld!
Totally off topic alert!
btw.. did you know that Blofeld's cat being white persian or a turkish angora is actually a myth? *
Its a bugbear of mine that people think it was. Same as how some people think my Zoe is Siamese.
Oh theres a white fluffy cat so it must be persian/angoran. Oh theres a cat with colour points so it must be Siamese :rolls eyes:
Although they have used several cats over the years, Blofelds cat in You only Live Twice is actually a Chinchilla Persian as is the one in From Russia with Love etc
The Turkish Angora is similar in that its a white long hair, but it's sleeker with a more pointed face & pale pink nose - See
CFA specification.
The white persian is long hair, but has a flat face.
What sets the Chinchilla Persian aside and makes it so distinctive is:-
- Their long white fur is gently marked with a subtle and very pale grey tip.
This tipping is so pale that you only normally notice it's lack of absence where the fur is shorter such as around the moustache/nose area, or just beneath the eyes which is usually pure white. This is a trademark of the Chinchilla known as silver tipping - The Chinchilla has very distinctive black kohl lines around their inner eyelids, which the white angoras dont - theirs are pale pink.
- The Chinchillas also have the black line around their orangish nose. The Angoras have pink noses and no markings
- Chinchilla's eyes arent bright blue but are more aqua blue/greenish. Angora's eyes are blue although sometimes they have one blue and one aqua eye
- Chinchillas dont have the horrible squashed pug nose of the traditional persians, but their faces are flatter than the Angoras.
- They are stockier than an Angora.
- They have thicker fur around the torso
- The Chinchilla's paw pads are often black. The white angoras are pink.
This 100% is a Chinchilla Persian and not a Turkish Angora - Clip from
You Only Live Twice.
Different cat, but clip from
Russia with Love showing the distinctive black paw pads, black eye kohl, black marking round nose. This is also a Chinchilla - look how clear the silver tipping is and its not pure white.
Lots of images from
Diamonds are Forever -
link.
Note the silver tipping, stockier body shape, longer body fur, the black kohl around eye and nose - none of those would be present in a White Angora.
From
Never Say Never - spot the obvious yet?
The Chinchilla is a rare but beautiful breed and doesnt have the horrible squashed pug nose of a traditional persian. Unfortunately breeding over the past 25 years of these beautiful cats and crossbreeding with white persians, has led to their beautiful faces becoming more squashed (particularly in the USA) which I think is alarming and cruel.
Here is my beautiful Chaz-cat, a pedigree Chinchilla Persian, born in 1995 and before breeders started messing with their faces.
When you know the breed, then you can easily recognise that the Angora is quite different to a Chinchilla.
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*That wasnt a pop at you b*cat, I'm very aware that lots of sites say Blofelds cat is an Angora/Persian and it continues to spread as such. :/
Not many people are aware of the Chinchilla's because they are rare, so it just gets assumed that its one of the others.