British Shorthair Cat Colors

The eye color that a british shorthair has depends on his coat color.

British shorthair cat colors. Are you a traditional blue lover or is a newer colour your pick. The most familiar color variant is the british blue a solid grey blue coat orange eyes and a medium sized tail. Recessive to normal color makes the original color appear lighter as if white was mixed in. All blue cats are actually genetically black.

Blue is where we started and is the most common colour for british shorthair cats. There are many variations but the most common is black mixed with red the first tortie color to be developed in british shorthairs. The coat colour should be a deep rich red with a few tabby stripes or markings anywhere as possible. Colours of british shorthair and longhair cats.

Patterns can range from bi color shaded tabby colourpoint. There are other colors and patterns as well. Red as a british shorthair colour is still at the provisional stage. The british shorthair is the pedigreed version of the traditional british domestic cat with a distinctively stocky body dense coat and broad face.

It s quite a recent addition. The breed has also been developed in a wide range of other colours and patterns including tabby and colorpoint. The black british shorthair is a striking cat of unusual beauty. The cat s nose and pads should be brick red.

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. Recently there have been fawn and cinnamon colored varieties that are within acceptable standards. Red ginger self coloured british shorthair cats. Blue is the most well known colour of all of the british shorthair colours.

Coat and eye colors. Black purrbody black. There s golden silver cream red white blue and black. People are becoming aware of other colours now though and we often have people come to us for a blue kitten who end up falling in love with another colour instead once they see it.

Chocolate silver classic and spotted tabby black silver classic and spotted tabby also golden colours. We have owned and bred many blue cats and kittens and we are known for our blue bicolours. It is a rather misleading description because blue is in fact grey. 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.

Like red haired humans these cats sometimes have freckles on their bare spots such as pads nose leather ears eyelids and lips. The british shorthair s most common color variety is that of the blue one. 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. A coat of blue gray with copper colored eyes and a medium tail is the most recognizable characteristics of this breed.

Cattery of british cats mysticat house breeding cats of following colours. As long as the freckling is slight it won t be penalised by. A bombadillo black bicolour british shorthair kitten at just two weeks old. 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.

Within our silver golden and colour point lines there are beautiful specialised colours our colours are chocolate lilac black blue cinnamon. Blue cream blue cream blue light grey.