Highlander

Appearance and features:

The Highlander has a long sloping forehead and blunt muzzle with a very wide nose. The eyes are wide-set and the ears are upright with a slight curl and a slight turn in the backward direction. Some have polydactyl paws.

Size:

Females can grow to between 10 and 14 pounds, and the males between 15 and 20.

Family:

The Highlander (also known as the Highlander Shorthair, and originally as the Highland Lynx), is an experimental breed of cat. The unique appearance of the Highlander comes from the deliberate cross between the Desert Lynx and the Jungle Curl breeds, also recently developed. The latter of these has some non-domestic ancestry from two Asian small cat species, the leopard cat and jungle cat, making the Highlander nominally a feline hybrid, though its foundation stock is mostly domestic cat.

Coloring:

Tabby , pure black, white with stripes, blue , bronzed color and also a red color almost like a jar of Cinnamon

Origin:

The Highlander originated as a crossbreed of the experimental Desert Lynx breed and the Jungle Curl, to add the latter’s curled ears to the former. As with Desert Lynxes, they are bobtailed or short-tailed, have spotted or marbled markings, and resemble the bobcat.

Temperament:

Despite the “big-cat look”, the Highlander is a human-oriented, friendly and playful cat, and very active and confident. The Highlander displays tabby/lynx point or solid point coloration in various colors.