how do you tell a siamies from a persian?

Question

how do you tell a siamies from a persian

Answer 1

persians have long hair, and are kind of chubby. Siamese are long, skinny and have short hair. They also have brown noses, ears, and sometimes the tips of their tails and paws will be brown.

Answer 2

Siamese have long square-jawed faces, china blue eyes, and usually a mask and ears and tail of a dark color, while the majority of their long thin body is a fawn or grey color. Persians are shorter, have luxurious long fur, usually a small face, sometimes appearing to be pushed in, and their eyes are small.

Answer 3

siamies have short hair full faces, persians have long beautiful hair with scrunched up faces.

Answer 4

easy... siamese are short hair, lighter colored body (grey or light brown) and darker face (grey or blackish brown).
Pictures of Siamese:
http://www.bushveld.co.za/cats/siamese_5946.jpg
http://img.webring.com/r/t/traditionalsiame/logo


Persians are long haired, and can be many colors. Their faces are usually kinda flat, and their tails are really puffy. Their hair is super long

Pictures of Persians:
http://www.shadowlong.com/index.19.jpg
http://www.johnsoncountyhumane.org/images/Isaac.jpg
http://www.stardazl.com/103001.jpg

Now, there is a breed called HIMILAYAN, which is a cross between persians and siamese. They ahve the long hair, puffy tail, flat face, and body shape of a persian, but they have the colors of a siamese. They're gorgeous. My mom has 2 of them. Here's pictures of Himilayans
http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/Cambridge/entries/images/himalayan%20cat%201.jpg
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/e/ee/Himalayan_cat_percy.jpg
http://www.coloradocathouse.com/0763188050.jpg
http://www.yewcats.com/Himalayans_files/1A_seal_web.jpg

Answer 5

By looking at them it is very easy to tell the difference.

Siamese: http://www.mycatwearsclothes.com/images/siamese1.jpg

Persian: http://www.zoroastriankids.com/persiancat.jpg

Persians are flat faced and fluffy where as the traditional Siamese cat has a very thin bone structure with a narrow face and short, rough hair.

Answer 6

Siamese cats have short hair, persians have long hair.
There are a few siamese cats that have been bred to have long-ish hair, but they are few and far between.

Answer 7

persian are long haired and have round flat faces, siamese are short haired and have pointed angular faces

Answer 8

Persians make better rugs.

Answer 9

Siamese are slender, muscular, beautiful.
Persians are fat, fluffy and flat-faced.

Check out the links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_cat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siamese_(cat)

Answer 10

siamies are hairless except for hymalain siamese who have fur and are vicious