It turns out that breeders and cat lovers didn’t recognize the Lilac Point at first, feeling it was just a variation on the Blue Point Siamese – but more on that later. For their part, Lilac ...

Chocolate point Siamese. These cats have a creamy white body, and their legs, tail, ears, and mask are milk chocolate. Blue point Siamese. They have a bluish-white body with slate-blue extremities.

Lilac point Siamese cats have the palest colors of their breed, with pinkish gray ears, noses, and tails. Photograph by De Agostini, Getty Images.

To do so, they bred a seal point Siamese cat with a red tabby American shorthair cat. Their litter led to the origin of the colorpoint shorthair breed. In 1964, ...

“Siamese are one of the oldest and most famous breeds of cats,” says Heather Lorimer, Ph.D., associate professor of genetics at Youngstown State University and TICA genetics committee chair.

The Siamese cat - known for its striking dark brown and cream coat - has a genetic mutation named the Himayalan gene, which gives the felines temperature-sensitive fur that can change colour ...

Rayne Beau, a 2-year-old seal point Siamese, traveled more than 800 miles from Yellowstone National Park to California, ... Star, a flame point Siamese cat, from the truck to the traveling trailer.