British Shorthair Cat Colors Chart

It is a rather misleading description because blue is in fact grey.

British shorthair cat colors chart. Within our silver golden and colour point lines there are beautiful specialised colours our colours are chocolate lilac. We specialise in breeding british shorthair british longhair cats we breed the delightful shimmer of shaded chinchilla tipping ticked kittens in a beautiful range of specialised colours. British shorthair cats kittens homepage photo s of kittens available. Cats come in three base colours black chocolate and cinnamon.

Those 2 along with yellow and green are the most popular colors of british shorthair eyes. You already know those could be found in a lot of colors so talking about each eye color for every coat color is going to take a lot of time. Blue cream blue cream blue light grey. Blue tabby coloured british shorthair cats.

Cattery don xuk s up red. Cattery tigers deluxe white with difference eyes. They are approximately at the middle of these 2 extremes. Recessive to normal color makes the original color appear lighter as if white was mixed in.

The stripes and other markings should be a deep blue. Chocolate tabby coloured british shorthair cats. A bombadillo black bicolour british shorthair kitten at just two weeks old. We were the first breeder in australia to breed cinnamon and fawn british shorthair cats.

The coat colour standard for this variant specifies markings of rich chocolate brown. Blue is the most well known colour of all of the british shorthair colours. So lets start with a quick lesson in colours. Cattery peocats up black.

It is easy to see why this is such a popular colour with its wonderful muted grey tones the british blue is an instantly recognisable beauty. The ground colour for this variant should be a soft bluish fawn. The eye color that a british shorthair has depends on his coat color. Black purrbody black.

Colours of british shorthair and longhair cats. All blue cats are actually genetically black. Cattery spark ling diamant up blue. The color of a bicolor is determined by the non white color of the cat.

There is also red which is a colour that is carried on a cats x chromosone so it is linked to the sex of the cat ie male xy or female xx. Cattery mysticat house up chocolate. Our cats coats colours. Calico tortoiseshell dilute calico blue cream blue white blue red white red cream white cream black white black.

If you are wondering how much pigment do cats need in the iris in order to create these last 2 ones i can t answer exactly. Bri british shorthair brl british longhair brx bohemian rex bur burmese cey ceylon cha chartreux crx cornish rex cym cymric dom domestic cat no breed drx devon rex dsp don sphynx eur european shorthair exo exotic shorthair grx german rex hcl domestic cat longhaired hcs domestic cat shorthaired hcx domestic cat not known if shorthaired or longhaired. If the cat did not have that gene it would be one of the base colours. The cat s nose leather should be chocolate brown in.

The nose leather may be blue or pink as may the paw pads. British cats photos of difference colours british shorthair bri british longhair blh white with orange eyes.