Burmese Cat Coat Colors

Brown blue chocolate lilac red cream brown tortoiseshell blue tortoiseshell chocolate tortoiseshell and lilac tortoiseshell with complementary colors for the nose and paw pads.
Burmese cat coat colors. He named her wong mau and bred her to siamese cats. 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. Back in england the first blue burmese cat was born in 1955 sealcoat blue surprise. Coat color and grooming the burmese is often described as a brick wrapped in silk a testament to his solid muscular body.
The same gene can also be combined with the siamese gene cbcs to produce either darker points or a light on dark brown coat similar to the burmese chocolate champagne known as. The burmese gene is also present in some other cat breeds particularly the established rex breeds where it can be fully expressed in its homozygous form cbcb referred to as burmese colour restriction or sepia. Joseph thompson of san francisco brought a small walnut brown female cat from burma. All it needed was a mating between two sable burmese carrying this respective blue factor.
The short glossy single coat may appear pointed when the cats are young and may darken over time. The main coat colors include sable champagne platinum and blue. The burmese breed first came to america in 1930 when dr. The blue gene was passed to the burmese siamese hybrid and then to a pure burmese.
Now you can see burmese cats having coats in the shades of brown blue chocolate lilac red cream brown tortie blue tortie chocolate tortie and lilac tortie. I can t do that with the solid colours usually. Chocolate or sable is considered to be the original burmese colors but over the years through selective breeding different colored burmese could be found. Through selective breeding the unique solid brown colored coat now known as sable was isolated.
Brown the original burmese colour a rich warm seal brown blue a soft blue grey with a silver sheen on rounded areas chocolate a warm milk chocolate. 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. 1959 saw more colour variations along came the chocolate and the lilac and 1964 saw the red cream lilac and the torties. The governing council of the cat fancy acknowledges 10 colors.
The solid colours do tend to look much more uniform.