Who ever heard of a brown cat? There are only two breeds in the Cat Fancy producing dark brown cats: The Sable Burmese and the Havana Brown. But, Burmese come in three other colors and one of them is brown, too!
Moonmaid Cattery began with a Blue Burmese, Ch. Westwynd Pandora Box of Moonmaid. |
Pandora's first litter produced Ch. Moonmaid Hershey Silk Chocolate, a very light colored Champagne Burmese (shown here with sable Oliver). |
The Champagne Burmese comes in two different hues: light and dark. Pandora's second litter produced a dark Champagne Burmese, Moonmaid Jiro. |
Pandora's third litter produced a beautiful Platinum Burmese, Ch. Moonmaid Callisto. (Callisto is also shown in the cat pile below; she's the white adult at 2:00 o'clock) |
Burmese come in other more obscure colors, recognized only in Canada and the U.K. This is Moonmaid Bilbo, one of my champagnes, with a blue tortoiseshell girl. |
If you love the Burmese breed, I suggest expanding your color horizons. They make very lovely combinations and it's very nice to be able to tell them apart. I had one of each! (the adults in this cat pile are Oliver, Hershy, Callisto and, under them all, their mother, Pandora.) |
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