Our First "Wild Thing"
Member Of: We are proud to have in our pedigrees. . . The first Ocicat male to achieve Disinguished Merit You've come to the right "spot" Living Room Leopards Ailurophiles (cat lovers) have long admired the beauty, grace and athleticism of the wild cats, while secretly harboring a desire to make one a family pet. The latter is impractical to say the least, yet there is now a way to bring a little of the jungle into your home. A serendipitous breeding between two different varieties of domestic, pedigreed cats created the first "spotted" living room leopard---the Ocicat (pronounced Ah-see-cat). Possessing the temperament of a lap cat and the look of a "wild thing," the Ocicat breed has captured the fancy of ailurophiles everywhere. Wild Beginnings It was in 1964 that Mrs. Virginia Daly, while breeding an Aby-Siamese hybrid female, Dalai She, to a chocolate-point Siamese male, Ch Whitehead Elegante Sun, found an unusual little spotted ball of fur---a male kitten with golden spots on an ivory background! It wasn't until after this spotted beauty named Tonga was neutered, that Mrs. Daly decided that her spotted companion was also a treasure. She abandoned her breeding program to create Abyssinian pointed Siamese cats, and turned her attention to breeding the spotted kittens that reminded her of the Ocelot. Thus, the name and the breed of Ocicat was born. How could Mrs. Daly have imagined that her creative breeding efforts would produce a spotted breed of cat bred without the help of a feral or wild cat gene pool---and without a correspondingly wilder temperament? Instead, with only domestic cat bloodlines, the Ocicat possesses the best of both worlds---a companionable, loving, playful, intelligent temperament---and, the athletic, muscular, spotted look of a wild cat. A later introduction of the American Shorthair breed produced the 12 varieties of colors we see today. Although Mrs. Daly began breeding Ocicats following the birth of Tonga, it wasn't until May, 1987, that the Cat Fanciers' Association accepted the Ocicat breed for Championship. Today, this "gift from the Lord" as Mrs. Daly has been quoted to say, has not only found a place in the world of pedigreed cats, but in the hearts and homes of ailurophiles all over the world. Want to know more? Click HERE for a more in-depth article.
Remind you of a wild thing we know?
CH Late Night Koy Karamel
Cinnamon Spotted Ocicat Female
Photo © 1999 by Chanan
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Isn't she a beauty?
CH You Wild Thing Millennium Kiss
Cinnamon Spotted Female
Sire: GC Techichimec Shark, Cinnamon Silver Spotted Ocicat
Dam: CH Late Night Koy Karamel, Cinnamon Spotted Ocicat
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Arizona Hot-Spots
The first Ocicat to become a Grand Champion
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"Chevy"
GC Dalai Golden Cavalier of Ociville
Chocolate Spotted Ocicat Male
Breeder: Virginia Daly
by producing 18 grand champion offspring!
"Bud"
GC, RW Ociville Macchiato of Wrentree, DM
Chocolate Spotted Ocicat Male
Breeder: Bill McKee/Owner: Stephanie Thompson
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Photograph of Jaguar by David Alan Harvey
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