'" It is unclear if Lushington means the cats of the Lake Van area, or her own Turkish Van standardised breed. They not only dabble in water and play with it, but have been known to enter ponds and even horse-troughs for a swim – they soon became famous as the 'swimming cats. Lushington wrote: "Apart from their great capacity for affection and alert intelligence, their outstanding characteristic is their liking for water, not normally regarded as a feline attribute. This may be the source of the popular, but possibly false or exaggerated, belief that the formal Turkish Van breed is innately more fond of water than the average cat. Van cats are known for swimming in Lake Van. The most valued members of the type generally have one amber-green eye and one blue eye. Their most notable genetic characteristic is their almond-shaped eyes that often are mismatched colours. Locals to the Van area identify only the all-white type as Van cats, according to a 1991 BBC documentary, Cats, written and presented by Roger Tabor. Van cats are all-white, or sometimes mostly white with amber markings around the tail and ears.
The run-together term "Turkish Vankedisi" is confusingly used by some organisations as a name for all-white specimens of the standardised Turkish Van breed. However, one of the breed founders' own writings indicate that the four original cats used to found the formal breed came from other parts of Turkey than the Lake Van area.
The naturally occurring Van cat type is popularly believed to be the basis of the Turkish Van breed, as standardised and recognised by many cat fancier organizations it has been internationally selectively bred to consistently produce the ruddy head-and-tail colouring pattern on the white coat. The variety has been referred to as "the swimming cat", and has been observed to swim in Lake Van. Van cats are relatively large, have a chalky white coat, sometimes with ruddy coloration on the head and hindquarters, and have blue or amber eyes or have heterochromia (one eye of each colour). The Van cat ( Turkish: Van kedisi Western Armenian: Վանայ կատու, romanized: Vana gadu Eastern Armenian: Վանա կատու, romanized: Vana katu Kurdish: pisîka Wanê) is a distinctive landrace of the domestic cat found in the Lake Van area of the Armenian Highlands in Turkey.
Not recognised as a standardised breed by any major breed registry.
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