# How are siamese cats different?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 25, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-siamese-cats-different/461162 "2008-08-25T02:19:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-siamese-cats-different/461162/41 "2008-08-27T19:23:44Z")

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Huh. Is that what’s happening in this picture of my Siamese mix [Serafina?](http://gloriana.myphotoalbum.com/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album08&id=Serafina_01). I had never noticed it before, but in that image, she does seem to have 2 different eye glows. I don’t have the original high rez image anymore.

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**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-siamese-cats-different/461162/42 "2008-08-27T19:24:30Z")

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I’ve had several seal points and they’ve had some or all the traits above. Additionally, my last seal point, Squirt, lived to be 21 1/2 years old. The vet told me that most of the cats she sees that live that long are Siamese.

Squirt was the world’s mushiest cat. As long as she was being carried, sitting on a lap, or cuddled with someone on the bed she was happy. She also talked a lot, and the few times she went to visit a new place, she would sniff everything and discuss what she thougt about it.

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