THE NAPOLEON CAT

IS NOT THE ORIGINAL

SHORT-LEGGED CAT BREED

The Munchkin cat looks like a domestic cat because the founders of that breed wanted to embrace the look of their cat's domestic heritage. Many people have been intrigued with the Munchkin cats for year but didn't fancy the "barn cat" look. Napoleon founder, Joe Smith, created the Napoleons by crossing the Munchkins to the Persian Breed Group (which includes Persians, Himalayans, and even Exotic Shorthairs), in order to produce the shortlegged cats but with the rounder faces of the Persian Breed Group. Not wanting to copy-cat the Persians, Joe opted to craft the breed standard to aim for the look of the "old-fashioned Persian faces of years ago" instead of the peke-faced snubbed nosed Persians of today. There were more reasons for this chosen mix; the Persian breed is know for its gentle loving nature, by avoiding the extreme peke-faced Persian look-the Napoleons would be opting for a healthier breed, plus there is a huge following of the old-timey Persians by people who love and prefer that sweet expression yet find it difficult to find one.

Knowing that there were many followers of the old-timey Persians who longed for that "look", it seemed to be a good match-up and time has proven it so. Between that sweet opened wide-eyed expression and those cute little legs - the Napoleons have been become quite popular despite our struggles to gain championship status within our association.

THE NAPOLEON CAT

ACTUALLY COMES

IN TWO VERSIONS

1.  the shortlegged version

2. and the "regular-legged" version.

It usually occurs in each Napoleon litter that some kittens will have the short-legs but some could have "regular legs. " Our regular-legged kittens (we refer to as non-standards) will have that beautiful "look" that as we stated above, is so widely popular to so many people who long for that old-fashioned Persian look.  These then of course make beautiful pets and are less expensive then their short-legged littermates.

Whether short-legged or regular legged - these Napoleons are gorgeous. They coming in shorthaired and in longhaired and in every color imaginable; lilacs, chocolates, calicos, pointed, smokes, silvers, whites, minks, and more.