Personality

Cymrics - or long-haired Manx - are intelligent, affectionate, fun-loving cats that typically get along very well with other animals, including dogs. Like their short-haired counterparts, the long-haired Manx are extremely loyal to their humans and enjoy spending as much quality time with them as possible, every hour of every day. They are wonderfully playful cats. Many Cymrics can easily be taught tricks, which constantly amuse and delight friends and family members, and also household visitors. Despite their outgoing temperaments, these cats are uniformly gentle and non-aggressive and are not known to be pushy, forward or overly demanding of attention.

Activity Level

The Cymric is a stocky, athletic breed, with an ability to jump that defies its husky size, weight and structure. They often are found perching on something that is at the very highest point in a room, without any obvious pathway for how they reached that lofty place. The Cymric, or long-haired Manx, has exceptionally powerful and well-developed hindquarters, which give it the unique ability to successfully leap unusually high and far.

Behavioral Traits

The long-haired version of the Manx is particularly dog-like in terms of temperament and traits. The Cymric is known to bury bones and toys much like a dog, and to retrieve objects willingly during games of toss and fetch. They tend to be either one-person cats or uniformly family cats. If a Cymric is especially bonded to one owner, it can be difficult to successfully introduce it to another owner or household. However, when a Cymric is fully a family cat, it easily adapts to most new family members or changes in environment.