Animal Breed
British Longhair /tabby mix

Adopted or Rescued?
Yes

Pet personality / Story of adoption / Why is your pet special?
We adopted Snowball in 2007 from our shelter because she had a heart melting smile as a kitten and a soft pure white coat - she was simply irresistible! Snowball has a great combination of being both attentive & curious in her focus, but w/a low key personality that makes her so adorable, we can't keep our hands off her. IN other words she in not a shy cat or aloof, and not an independent one hiding from attention, just the opposite.

Snowball loves being around us and snuggled upon, but she is quiet, polite, even dignified in her walk, pose and stature. Warm, cuddly, and loving, we give her all the human attention and interaction she can handle, and she loves it all, just as we love her.

We looked up the British Long hair and short hair in the Cat Fanciers Association and below are some factoids they said about her breed history which is very cool.

Reference Cat Fanciers: Famous as the Cheshire Cat in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland the British short hair and long hair traces its ancestry back to the cats of Rome and is one of the oldest breeds of English cats. Once a hunter and protector of the barns, the British Shorthair now embraces family life, preferring to snooze in comfort by the fire and to exchange hunting for playing with toy mice. It is a dignified, affectionate cat, sometimes referred to as the Winston Churchill of the cat world, roaming its household dominion with all four feet on the floor.

The British Shorthair origins begin with cats imported from Egypt that accompanied the Romans when they invaded Great Britain. One of the first breeds of the cat fancy, they have changed little over the centuries. As the breed developed, crosses were made with the Persian between 1914 and 1918 introducing the longhair gene. Cats with short coats were part of the British Shorthair and cats with longhair went into the Persian breeding programs.