ARNOLFINO
MILESTONES @ MILLWOOD
By Jean Mill
Early foundation cats at Millwood will be of interest
because they appear in many Bengal pedigrees and
helped to set the direction that the breed would take.
It was upon the appearance of these early cats that our
standard was based and our genetic truths forged.
Millwood history begins in my 1946 genetics class at UC
Davis, where my term paper proposed crossing the popular
Persian breed of cat with the new Siamese breed to make
'Panda Bear' cats. My professor laughed that he had
expected a topic more practical and commercially feasible,
such as hybrid corn or cattle. Later married and living
on a ranch in Yuma, I pursued the dream, and was among
the early contributors to the Himalayan breed. I gave a
presentation to the ACFA board in March of l965 in Texas
asking that they be recognized, but the board was half
Persian breeders, the other half Siamese breeders, none of whom liked the idea of mixing the two! When the Himalayans lost their challenge, it was time to move on.
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