The Javanese is a Siamese type cat with a medium long coat in the Colorpoint colors: lynx point, tortie point or red/cream point.

Javanese Cat Origin

The parent breeds are the Siamese, Colorpoint Shorthair and Balinese. The original Javanese were heavier, shorter-headed cats, and to improve their type most breeders have bred back to Siamese and Colorpoint lines. This produces a variant generation: shorthair cats which carry the recessive long hair gene. Hopefully these variants produce a more typey longhair when they are bred to a longhair or another variant. Frequent outcrosses to shorthair have contributed to the amazing improvement in type that has been seen over the past ten years.

Javanese Cat Appearence

Body : Long, graceful, and svelte, of medium size with long, slim legs and a distinctive combination of fine bones and firm muscles. In other words, the Javanese is a "buff" cat.
Extra: The Javanese standard is identical to that of the Balinese, with the exception of a much larger array of permissible colors. For that reason, all registries now consider the Javanese part of the Balinese breed. It becomes even more confusing when you consider that the TICA considers the Balinese a division of the Siamese Group. While CFA recognized the Javanese as a separate breed in 1979, in 2008 that registry has reassigned it to a division of the Balinese breed.

Javanese Cat Colors and Coats

The Javanese coat is one of their most distinctive features, a soft, silky single coat that lies close to the body and develops into a plume on the tail. The fur should be two to three inches long on the body, longer and fuller on the tail to create the plume. Because there is no undercoat, they require little grooming and usually keep themselves immaculate. Normally baths are only necessary for showing and then a single lather, rinse and a quick blow dry produce a show finish. The fuller coat softens the lines of the cat, and they might not appear as extreme as their shorthaired parent breeds. To truly appreciate the underlying structure the Javanese needs to be felt and its coat smoothed down. Bath time provides an opportunity to truly assess the fine boning and long lines, and there have been jokes about holding "Wet T-Shirt" contests to truly show their type.

The Javanese Temperament

The parent breeds are the Siamese, Colorpoint Shorthair and Balinese. The Javanese's personality is similar to the parent breeds, active, playful and extremely affectionate and intelligent. It is an extremely intelligent breed, and will soon assert its rightful place in your household: as "major domo," telling you in its sweet voice that it is time for dinner, or for play.

They definitely want to be with their humans, on the lap, shoulder and if allowed in bed. Javanese do talk, but usually only when they want to communicate something; and they have a variety of voices depending upon what they want to say. They are intelligent and have been known to learn to fetch, to find treats in pockets and to do other tricks. They adapt to their owners' routines, that is, if they don't train their humans first.

Javanese are insatiably curious and quite fearless. There is little they will not investigate: a noise, an open cupboard, water dripping from a faucet, a toilet flushing, the inside of a shopping bag, a running vacuum cleaner, a blow dryer. Because of this curiosity, their lithe build, and a penchant for getting toys under things, they are also accomplished contortionists who can scoot under low couches, beds, and cabinets with astonishing ease.