The breed is gentle and easily managed. It will prefer the company of its special person to any other amusement. They are usually friendly, but conservative with strangers. The breed is very healthy, not given to any particular problems. Mothers are prolonged in labour, and not too anxious to wean.
Kittens are quite slow to accept solids.
Its silky little-shedding coat is often well tolerated by the allergic and needs only occasional combing, paying particular attention to the modified ruff and hindquarters. The coat is not given to matting. Ears seem inclined to waxiness and should be swabbed regularly. The history of this breed is intriguing. Nature took its course, and Shirley's first litter was born in early 1969.