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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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