Champagne Burmese Cat Colors

The burmese coat lies close to the body and is short fine and glossy with a silky smooth finish.

Champagne burmese cat colors. Small indeterminate markings permitted elsewhere except on the side or belly on an otherwise excellent cat. Combinations of dominant and recessive genes. Lilac the lilac european burmese should be a pale delicate dove gray color with a slight pink cast. Chocolate a warm milk chocolate.

The four colors we now recognize in cfa are sable a rich dark brown. The first fawn kitten was born in 1998. Red the fur color is red orange on the torso and melon orange on the outer coat cream cream with a distinct bloom on the head and back giving a powdered effect. Their coats are short and close lying and they have a very silky texture.

In 1989 a cinnamon breeding programme was started in the netherlands. Blue burmese have a medium blue coat with a slightly lighter belly. The solid dark sable brown burmese is in a league of its own but the now popular dilute divisions include the chocolate blue lilac red cream and the brown chocolate blue and lilac torties. Other colors have been developed from this initial base set with varying degrees of popularity and recognition.

Red the red european burmese should be a warm orange apricot color. Burmese cats are medium sized felines with strong muscular bodies rounded heads and expressive gold eyes. Currently the cfa standard still recognises the burmese only in solid sable blue champagne and platinum. And blue a medium gray with fawn undertones.

These affectionate intelligent and loving kitties were proposed to the cat fanciers association as a new breed in 1934 and were accepted for registration in 1936. If you go to a cat show with 6 or more chocolate adult female cats all of good type you will find that the breeders are constantly looking at cage numbers before attending to a cat so that don t attend to a cat that isn t theirs. Slight tabby markings permitted on the face. Nose leather is a light warm brown and paw pads are a warm pinkish tan.

Each of the two mating cats gives two color genes to their kittens. However the british gccf recognizes burmese in solid brown. I can go to a cat show with 5 other blue torties in it and point my girl out from across the room without hesitation. I can t do that with the solid colours usually.

Blue a soft blue gray with a silver sheen. The coat should be uniformed across the body and gradually shading to lighter on underparts the american standard recognizes four main colors blue champagne sable and platinum. Champagne a warm beige. Burmese cats carry surprising weight for their size.

Platinum a pale gray with fawn undertones. Lilac a pale delicate dove gray with a pinkish cast. Brown the original burmese color a rich warm seal brown.