Burmese Cat Colours

Brown is the darkest colour of burmese available.

Burmese cat colours. The burmese cat burmese. Thongdaeng or supphalak meaning copper colour is a breed of domestic cat originating in burma believed to have its roots near the thai burma border and developed in the united states and britain. Through selective breeding the unique solid brown colored coat now known as sable was isolated. All it needed was a mating between two sable burmese carrying this respective blue factor.

The burmese breed first came to america in 1930 when dr. 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 lilac a pale delicate dove grey with a slight pinkish cast. The dark brown offspring did indeed breed true and became the foundation cats of the burmese breed. While the accepted colors for burmese have increased in the past few years the vast majority of burmese are still the traditional deep brown sable.

Chocolate will be more of a lighter brown creamy brown coloured body often with datrker points or tips. Brown burmese are a rich dark dark brown colour all over. Joseph thompson of san francisco brought a small walnut brown female cat from burma. ทองแดง or ศ ภล กษณ rtgs.

The matriarch of the modern burmese was a small dark brown cat named wong mau. I can t do that with the solid colours usually. 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. Wong mau was mated to a son from this litter yen yen mau and this litter contained three colours again some like siamese kittens brown kittens again like wong mau and dark brown kittens.

Darker shading on the points may be seen in kittens but this shading disappears with age producing richness in any of the accepted colors. Taking home a new kitten. Most modern burmese are descendants of one female cat called wong. What is the difference between red and cream.

The blue gene was passed to the burmese siamese hybrid and then to a pure burmese. The solid colours do tend to look much more uniform. 1959 saw more colour variations along came the chocolate and the lilac and 1964 saw the red cream lilac and the torties. Colour mating chart for brown blue chocolate and lilac burmese showing percentages of colours which might be expected over a number of litters.