A Longhaired Exotics comes from breeding a Persian to an Exotic. Not all of your kittens will have short hair in which case they are Long Haired Exotics. The coat is not a whole lot different on the ELHs and the Persian just a matter of lineage.

I showed in FIFe well over 10 years ago and I do not know what has changed since then. Back then FIFe (so much differ from CFA!) had very strict concervative rules about breeding.

For example, they did not allow breeding of smokes and bi-colors or smokes and tabbies, and color-points were very separate group and couldn't be bred to any other persian colors, and exotics were exotics and I have never heard that anybody would breed exotic to persian and got FIFe papers for kittens - I'm pretty sure FIFe wouldn't go for such breeding (again, I don't know what changed since then).

Linda, regarding tabbies in pedigrees. If I was looking for a smoke in FIFe in 90's I would know for sure that he had only smokes and solids in his pedigree - otherwise, he won't be "papered" by FIFe.

When I started to look for a smoke a while ago (and not that I had anybody that would consider selling me show smoke and had ANY choice , but it's another issue) but I was shocked to learn that the vast majority of top-line smokes do have tabbies in pedigrees. The best cattery I knew (Palmetto) didn't have tabbies but well, I do not think I will ever get to the level when this breeder would trust me one of her wonderful babies (sigh)...

"What I'm surprised didnt pass was the time limit to use persians."


I'm gona stick my neck out here but when this whole long hair zot thing started my biggest concern was that they would put a time limit on the use of Persians and if they did that it might trickle down to us Himi breeders and we too would be told that the Persians couldn't be used with a Himi.  Just like the zot breeders we too would be limited on type as well was my concern.  So I am happy that didn't pass but I am rather upset about how they are allowing the LH zots to compete with the Persians but be scored differently.  To me, and as someone else stated, they should be split up in the Exotic category as LH class and SH class.  JMHO.

Hello

 i have questions,
 
  If breed LH with ELH
  and ESH with ELH
  can be registered after april

Thank you for the informations.

It absolutely SHOULD matter. In the HHP division all that matters is clean and healthy but the purebreds are that for a reason. They are held to a standard written and agreed upon by their breed counsels, and if the standard isnt upheld what is the point. You may as well just breed to whatever you want, hey why not a brit to a cornish or a persian to a sphynx if that's the aesthetic for the day.