Burmese Cat Colours Australia
No matter what their colour all burmese kittens are friendly intelligent and mischievous.
Burmese cat colours australia. Temperament burmese cats are laid back social intelligent gentle and sweet cats who are less vocal than their siamese cousins. Harbourside quay 5015 ph 0412 051766. Boarding facilities cats kittens sold cat products 4 vet recommended food ranges flea worming. South australia the burmese and rex cat fancy of sa the rex burmese cat fanciers of s a inc.
Kittens will not show their true colour until they are adult. The burmese coat lies close to the body and is short fine and glossy with a silky smooth finish. The programme was conceived by dr rod hitchmough a geneticist and a new zealand cat breeder since 1976. Brown a rich warm seal brown shading very slightly on.
The burmese cat should be of a small to medium size with good muscular development with slightly stockier legs than that of the siamese. The general colour was a very pleasing light warm biscuit brown quite different from the usual chocolate. Not all cat councils accept all colours. The burmese cat comes in ten colours but in all colours the underparts will be lighter than the back and the shading will be gradual.
A summary of coat colours follows. Burmese australia suchi burmese catatonia registered burmese breeder with nsw cfa and burmese assoc pure and pedigree burmese kittens chocolate burmese torti burmese burmese toilet trained micro chipped wormed vaccinated vet checked burmese raised indoors very affectionate. There is no notable masking as in the siamese. The coat is free from bars and spotting although the presence of a few white hairs is permissible.
Rod sought then to recreate the colour or a colour very similar to this in a predictable reproducible. Dolman 22 formby crs. The 4 tortie colours are only available as girls as the tortie colouring comes through on a female gene. 6 possible male colours and 10 possible female colours.
The coat colour will gradually pale towards the roots. There are 10 recognised burmese colours in australia. Rod identified a burmese of very different colour in his traditional burmese breeding lines and considered that another gene was affecting the colour possibly cinnamon. The head is rounder with a shorter muzzle to that of the siamese with beautiful big wide set golden eyes.