Platinum Burmese Cat Colors
Any color other than the four accepted colors of sable cham pagne blue and platinum.
Platinum burmese cat colors. Blue a soft blue gray with a silver sheen. Back in england the first blue burmese cat was born in 1955 sealcoat blue surprise. I can go to a cat show with 5 other blue torties in it and point my girl out from across the room without hesitation. Champagne a warm beige.
Platinum a pale gray with fawn undertones. The four colors we now recognize in cfa are sable a rich dark brown. I can t do that with the solid colours usually. Burmese cats carry surprising weight for their size.
The nose leather and paw pads are a pretty lavender pink. Their coats are short and close lying and they have a very silky texture. The british burmese also can come in a tortoiseshell pattern. Brown blue chocolate lilac red cream brown tortoiseshell blue tortoiseshell chocolate tortoiseshell and lilac tortoiseshell with complementary colors for the nose and paw pads.
Darker shading on the points may be seen in kittens but this shading disappears with age producing richness in any of the accepted colors. The burmese can be found in a mix of different colors such as sable dark brown platinum light grey with light brown undertones blue medium grey with light brown undertone and champagne beige. Some associations permit other colors including tortoiseshell lilac and red. The governing council of the cat fancy acknowledges 10 colors.
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. And blue a medium gray with fawn undertones. The mature specimen is a rich warm sable brown. Currently the british gccf standard recognises solid brown chocolate blue lilac red and cream as well as the tortoiseshell pattern on a base of brown chocolate blue or lilac.
Kittens are often lighter in color. Shad ing almost imperceptibly to a slightly lighter hue on the under parts but otherwise without shadings barring or markings of any kind. 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. On the other hand.
Children and other pets. Chocolate a warm milk chocolate. In america champagne blue and platinum cats were first formally considered a separate breed the malayan in 1979. They need very little grooming usually requiring only some daily petting.
However the british gccf recognizes burmese in solid brown chocolate blue lilac red and cream.