Is there a breed with this coloring?

I have a friend who had a cat years ago. He said the cat was chocolate brown (medium length hair) with white bib and white paws - like a tuxedo cat only distinctly chocolate as the base color. It was a male cat. I have looked through my cat breed book and googled every possible word combination I can think of but to no avail. He kinda thought it was a Burmese mix - does that sound like a possibility? It may be that this was just a one-time fluke, but, he would be delighted to find a cat with that coloring again. The personality was very people-oriented and affectionate. Thanks in advance for any help on the subject!

Chocolate/brown is a normal cat colour and isn't necessarily related to any specific breed. The reason you don't see it very often is because it is recessive to black, so the parents of a chocolate cat both have to be carrying the brown gene. In some breeds of pedigreed cat chocolate is more common, but this is only because if you know the pedigrees of the cats you are breeding you will know which cats carry the brown gene and can specifically breed for chocolate coloured cats - with moggies it is random and so black is more common.

So your friend's cat was a chocolate and white DSH. Not the most common colour for a DSH, I bet he was a lovely looking cat

If its truely brown and not black that is rusted, then it would be a chocolate/white bicolor. I've seen the color mainly in Devon/Cornish rex cats (even chocolate calicos)

Its rare in the general cat population but can occur. Chocolate is a recessive gene.

Thanks! I didn't know that about brown cats. Now I will have some good info to pass on to my friend.

BTW the brown burmese is genetically a black cat - not a chocolate one Havana Browns are genetically chocolate cats.