PKC - Honey Bear

Coat

Solid:

Tabby: Any of the tabby combinations in any of the patterns including golden tabby. Heavy tabby is allowed.
Tortoishell: Any of the tortoiseshell combinations.
Torbie: Any of the torbie combinations of the allowed tabby combinations.
Smoke/Shaded/Chinchilla: Any of the above listed colours in any of the patterns on a silver or gold base.
Mink: Any of the mink combinations.
Burmese: Any of the burmese combinations.
White Patterns: Any of the above colours can come with or without

in any amount. If the cat has at least tuxedo markings, it can have a white tailtip without fault.

Honey Bears from the UbiSoft file may be a mixture of

with

ear insides, muzzle, and cheeks. The toes, fingers, and chest may be

as well.

Eyes

Minks have

Solid whites and catz with at least 75% white spotting may have one or two

Nose

Matches surrounding coat. UbiSoft Honey Bears have

Faults

Wrong nose colour.

Disqualifications

Colourpoint.

Varieties

None

Notes

The Honey Bear is an obscure breed created by Ann Baker of Ragdoll fame. It was one of her post-Ragdoll breeding projects, originating with her “Cherubim” line of Persian crosses, and probably the most baffling of the three. In type it is very similar to the Ragdoll and the RagaMuffin, and again has a signature calm temperament, long fluffy coat, and moderate type. Where the Honey Bear enters the Twilight Zone is through Ann Baker’s claim that she injected a female Persian with skunk DNA, and then bred her to a Persian male, producing partially skunk Persian crosses. This would have been just another wacky breed story, if Baker had not then informed CFA that her Persians (as she was registering them) were part skunk, as they were all consequently de-registered. Baker would laterclaim, as she lost control of her Ragdoll breeding program, that her cats were immune to pain, part alien, could be mated with any cat to turn the kittens into Ragdolls, and many more equally bizarre and unsettling claims. The Honey Bear is one of the many names she used for her projects, along with Cherubim, Baby Dolls, Little Americans, and Catenoids. None of these breeds were ever popular with anyone other than herself and her clique of loyal franchisees at the International Ragdoll Cat Association, and following her death in 1997, her breeding program ceased and the IRCA collapsed soon after.

PKC accepts the Honey Bear due to UbiSoft selecting the breed to be one of their new breeds for inclusion with Petz 5. Not a single legitimate showing or registration body has ever accepted the Honey Bear, and there is no evidence available online of any breeders, nor indeed any photos of cats confirmed to be Ann Baker Exclusive (as she branded her cats) Honey Bears.

Type & judging remarks
As far as can be determined, Honey Bears were essentially moderate Persians, or what many people today would call a “doll-face” or “traditional” Persian. The body would be moderate, but heavier than the Ragdoll and overall rounded and substantial with a pleasing expression and temperament.

Breed Files

Filename: Honeybear
Offset: EB03
Base: Persian
SCP: Persian
Accepted: February 25, 2011
Notes: Version 2 of the Supernova file. Includes four tail variations. File originally had one 245 eye and one 201 (as seen in standard image), this was fixed in March 2011 and catz registered after this should have 201 in both eyes.

Filename: Honeybear
Offset: EB03
Base: Persian
SCP: Persian
Accepted: February 28, 2005
Notes: Includes furfiles for red tabby and shaded silver. In shaded silver catz, the muzzle, part of the ruff, toes and tailtip are white.

Filename: Honey Bear
Offset: 0404
Base:
SCP:
Accepted: September 1, 1998
Notes: The original unhexed Ubisoft file, as released for Petz 5.