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The Forestcat is a social, friendly cat, who likes both human and other cats. Just like other cats, the Forest Cat has a great personality. They are also very intelligent and "speaks" a lot, without being noisy. (Most Forestcats prefer a catcompanion instead of being a single cat.)

The coat is, inspite of it´s length, quite easy to care for, but in the shedding season they can get some smaller knots. During summer, the cats are almost shorthaired, the only thing that make you realise it´s not, is the tail, and the "knickers" (back of hindlegs), who still have long fur.

The tales about the Forestcat are many and it´s mentioned in litterature in very early days.

In Oslo 1938 the first Forest Cat was shown and judged by a very excited judge, named Knut Hansen. Then the second World War broke out and the work to preserve this Norwegian nationalbreed didn´t start again until 1972. the year after -1973- the breed was recognized in Norway, after the Norwegian catpeople agreed on a standard.

The cats were given pedigrees as an experimental breed, and 1976, the Norwegians had about 100 cats registered. the same year, on FIFE´s annual meeting in Wiesbaden, the Norwegian Forest Cat got recognized without certificate status.
But the Norwegian people didn´t give up. when FIFE had it´s annual meeting in Paris 1977, Fredrik Nordane and several others where present, bringing with them a lot of photomaterial and pedigreedokumentation, showing 3 generations of Forest Cats. And this time they succeded, the Norwegian Forest Cat was officially recognised! This event even was covered by the Norwegian TV-news, and the Norwegian people are proud of their National breed, and so they should be!

Thera have been a big interest for the Forest cat in Sweden, right from the start, but as the Norwegians first wanted to create a good breedingbase for themselves, only cats from third or fourth generations was allowed to be sold out of Norway. But 1977 the first Forestcat came to Sweden from norway and many cats have followed him since then and nowdays the Swedish NFO´s are just as good as the Norwegians.

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