Siamese Burmese Cat Black

He used wong mau and a male siamese cat for selective breeding which created the burmese mix breed cat that we know today.

Siamese burmese cat black. It s all about genetics. She belonged to dr. Why you may ask. There were times when a lighter coloured kitten was born in a litter and the breeders in america wanted the cfa to recognize.

When the ones that looked like burmese siamese hybrids were bred to each other they produced the deep dark burmese kittens. Explore searchview params phrase by color family familycolorbuttontext colorfamily name. Wong mau was at first thought to be a siamese with a chocolate colored coat. This is because the seal point colour is actually black although it often appears to be dark brown rather than pure black.

They are essentially a coloured siamese cat. Siamese cats and other species such as the rabbit and the mouse carry a specific gene called the himalayan gene. When she was bred to a siamese the resulting kittens appeared to be burmese siamese hybrids and pure siamese. The burmese gene is also present in some other cat breeds particularly the established rex breeds where it can be fully expressed in its homozygous form cbcb referred to as burmese colour restriction or sepia.

If you are looking for a true black cat with the siamese temperament and body shape then the oriental or foreign shorthair is the cat for you. The cat pictured at the top of the page is a black oriental his father was a caramel oriental and his mother was a seal point siamese. In addition to the old siamese cat the tamra maew also describes other heritage cats of thailand including the korat cat malet which are still bred for preservation in thailand today and have become popular in other countries and konja cat black cat suphalak a controversy in burmese cat. The burmese mix cat has asian origins that date back to the 1300s.

Legend has it that the burmilla cat was created accidentally in the uk. The matriarch of the modern burmese was a small dark brown cat named wong mau. When we think of a black siamese cat the term black is being used as an adjective describing the color of the cat but it is impossible for a siamese cat to be the color black. Burmilla cats have a variety of colors.

Essentially a seal point siamese cat is genetically a black cat although they are not black in colour due to the partial expression of the albinism trait. These cats can also be tortoiseshell with colors including black blue brown chocolate and lilac. Joseph thompson had a brown female cat from burma who he named wong mau. The same gene can also be combined with the siamese gene cbcs to produce either darker points or a light on dark brown coat similar to the burmese chocolate champagne known as.

The darker colored burmese cats then bred true showing that wong mau was in fact a hybrid of the siamese and a dark colored unknown cat.