Tortie Burmese Cat Colours
I now am a bit of a tortie addict and have owned brown tortie blue tortie and lilac tortie.
Tortie burmese cat colours. Due to the quirk of the red pigment being unaffected by the non agouti gene there may be tabby markings visible in the red areas. A large dilution of the color causes a change in the calico robe that becomes blue lilac or cream. 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. Continue to 2 of 6 below.
Brown blue chocolate lilac red brown based red chocolate based cream blue based cream lilac based brown tortie blue tortie chocolate tortie lilac tortie. Cats tortie point have colour points on their dress. However the main acceptable siamese cat colors are blue seal point lilac chocolate fawn caramel cinnamon red tabby tortie and cream. Having owned a tortie i.
I expect i may have to keep a chocolate tortie at some point should the right girl come along. Brown chocolate blue lilac red cream tortie. Burmese are thought to descend from sacred brown cats kept by student priests in the palaces and temples of ancient burma modern myanmar. Burmese at a glance.
Males 5 kg 11 lbs females 4 5 kg 8 8 11 lbs colours. Beside the tortoiseshell color there is also another almost similar dress called calico but which has in addition to red spots and dark spots white marks. Burmese type torties and tabby torties sometimes appear in random bred cats. Once again if the gene for silver is also present the background undercoat colour is silvery as in the cats below.
The colors in their coats are either bridled and look like they re woven together or patched which means the colors form in large patches all over the body. The solid colours do tend to look much more uniform. Where a tortie or calico cat has the non agouti gene it will appear to have solid patches of colour. Burmese colours brown blue chocolate lilac red cream brown tortie blue tortie chocolate tortie lilac tortie.
The solid dark sable brown burmese is in a league of its own but the now popular dilute divisions include the chocolate blue lilac red cream and the brown chocolate blue and lilac torties.