April 6—tomorrow—is National Siamese Cat Day. If you’re like most long-time cat people, you’ve either had a Siamese cat or knew one well. My grandmother had Siamese cats as I grew up. Hers were the
applehead or traditional seal point or classic Siamese. I adopted (rescued) a cat once that had the Siamese markings. In fact Siamese cats were quite popular and you saw a lot of them around, but then they all looked pretty much the same—cream-colored fur with dark brown points. The body style was similar, too.
Today there are many styles of Siamese cats, the applehead, classic, wedge head and they come in a wide variety of colors and shades. I believe the original was called seal point. Now we have variations of the original dark brown points—chocolate, for example. There’s also blue point, lilac point, flame point and tortie point as well as lynx point. I saw a Siamese online that’s known as a tortie-lynx point.
Whatever style Siamese that you love, today is the day to celebrate him or her.
