It is a well-balanced cat overall, firm and muscular with the appearance of great power and agility, yet having the look of a runner not a weight lifter. This white pattern symmetrically marked against the darker blue or seal of the points and brilliant blue eyes make this cat quite striking.
Snowshoes are active, intelligent, affectionate cats although sometimes hesitant with strangers.
While the Snowshoe is a relatively new breed, there is evidence of its existence both in an old Victorian photograph of a purebred litter of Siamese in which the front kitten has four white feet and in an old Japanese silk-screen showing one peering around a corner at a spider. It undoubtedly shares an ancestry with both the Siamese and the Birman but now is unlike either in type. Frost Pont female . 1-04 Grand Champion Nishna Bombalurina. The first attempt at establishing a breed of moderate, white -footed Siamese began back in the fifties under the name of Silver Laces.