Burmillas

This breed combines the lush beauty of the Chinchilla Persian with the clever and friendly personality of the Burmese. The semi-longhair coat requires little grooming effort, while giving the cat a soft yet elegant style.  The large expressive green eyes, with the eyeliner reflecting their coat colour are irresistible.

Because the breed was developed using Burmese lines the result is an athletic, intelligent cat; very inquisitive and interested in what its people are doing – yet the Chinchilla Persian lines give it a more substantial build and quieter nature.

You won't find your Burmilla crying for attention or demanding to be cuddled constantly – but you may find that you have a constant shadow, who likes to be involved in everything that you do – and loves a lap the minute you sit down, especially in the colder months! The Burmilla is a cat that demands that you notice it!

The striking contrast of silver white undercoat and dark accents in coat tipping, eye and nose colour and liner makes them irresistible. The coat comes in three different patterns, and the standard Burmese colourings – but the base colour of the coat is usually a clear white or ‘silver’.

The coat pattern called smoke gives the impression of a solid colour, with the silver undercoat apparent only when the coat is parted  The shaded pattern has a layer of colour on about one third of the hair length. Tipped coats have only a faint tip on about an eighth of the strand’s end. Ideally this should be a very even mantle of colour over the body, excepting the legs and some markings on the face.

These patterns can all be found in black, brown, blue, chocolate and lilac, with black and brown being the most common. The standards in some associations allow for the red and tortoiseshell colouring.
Kittens are frequently dark and even lightly striped when born, particularly if they have the shaded coat pattern - they lighten up as they grow.