Burmese Cats • Burmilla Cats • Tiffanie Cats

Purebred for quality in lovely Victoria, BC!

Our cats are registered with the Canadian Cat Association. The cats are from international, national and championship lines. The feature that sets these cat breeds apart from the others can be described as
"PURRRSONALITY"

Breed Profiles

Burmese Cats - Burmese cats carry a surprising weight for their size and have often been described as “bricks wrapped in silk.” Their coats are very short, satin-like in texture, and require little grooming other than daily petting. Burmese have large, expressive eyes that are great pools of innocence, irresistible in effect. These eyes are their most persuasive weapon in an arsenal of endearing traits that mask an awesome power to hypnotize their owners into life-time love affairs.

As kittens, Burmese are quite lively. They will be playful well into adulthood. As they grow, their high intelligence emerges and their own personalities unfold. They mature into charming, resolute executives who will take over a household with those big eyes and a velvet paw. If encouraged, many Burmese converse with their humans, using soft, sweet voices. They are good with children and, if introduced to it at an early age, most will enjoy traveling in a car.

Burmese are extremely people-oriented; their personalities are almost dog-like in a tendency to shadow their owners and to give and receive affection. Many have delighted their “humans” by learning to retrieve. They love warm laps and caressing hands and enjoy cuddling up in bed either under the covers or on top of their favorite person. They delight in helping to manage the house. Some of their favorite chores are assisting with paper work or reading (by sitting on top of the material), or going into cupboards (to demonstrate where things ought to be). Typically, Burmese are always with people. The females tend to request center stage and take an active role in ruling the household. The males prefer to supervise from the lap position, are more laid back and less opinionated. If emotionally slighted by their owner’s obtuseness, they may sulk, but, fortunately, not for long. Burmese often convert the most anti-cat person into a Burmese enthusiast. Many people find the complete Burmese experience is to have one of each sex or perhaps two (or more) colors.

--- exerpt from article by: Judith Kollman & Patricia Swihart

Burmilla Cats - The Shaded, or Burmilla, is the original Asian variety. In 1981, an accidental mating between a male Chinchilla (Jemari Sanquist), and a female lilac European Burmese (Bambino Lilac Faberge), resulted in the birth of 4 black Shaded Silver shorthaired kittens of good Burmese type. The breeder, Miranda von Kirchberg, already well known for her Astahazy Russian Blues, had the foresight and knowledge to understand that these kittens could be the foundation for a new and exciting breed group which would fill a gap in the Cat Fancy - Silver and Tabby equivalents of the Burmese. With Astahazy Galatea, one of the first litter, she embarked on an experimental breeding programme with the advice and support of many leading Burmese breeders, geneticists and GCCF advisors. At the time of her death in 1997 her inspiration was about to become reality- the Burmilla was on the verge of competing for the first time at Championship status in GCCF, almost 16 years after the birth of the first kittens.

The Burmilla may either be silver or non-silver (standard) - the silver having a pure white undercoat, and the standard, an undercoat of ivory or beige. Any degree of shading is permissible except for the very lightly tipped cats, which may appear almost white. All Burmillas have an underlying tabby pattern, and if this is classic, spotted, or mackerel, ghost markings may appear on the body especially in kittens. The ideal Shaded cat, however, has even colour distribution with no tabby markings on the body, although a few vestigial markings may still be apparent on legs, head and tail.

Tiffanie Cats - The Semi-Longhaired variety of the Asian group first made an appearance in the mid-1980s, as a consequence of the experimental breeding programme for the Burmilla in the UK. When Burmillas carrying the longhair gene were bred together, some of the resulting kittens were semi-longhaired - with silky medium length coats that did not tangle and had none of the potential grooming problems of their parent breed, the Chinchilla. At first, these kittens were not taken seriously and were more or less disregarded as an offshoot of the main aim of breeding silver shaded Shorthairs. However, a small group were determined to achieve recognition for these most attractive cats, and very slowly the Tiffanies gained more admirers despite their much slower progress in comparison with the Burmilla and other Asian Shorthairs. The Tiffanie was given Preliminary GCCF recognition along with the other 4 Asian varieties in 1991, and has moved to Provisional status as of June 1999. Many more breeders have now taken an interest in the variety.