Bombay or Burmese?

Hi and welcome to The Cat Site! Your kitty looks to be just a regular gorgeous black Domestic Short Hair Feel free to post more pics of your Louie in the Fur Pictures ad Videos thread - we love seeing kitty pics, and I have a particular soft spot for black cats

Looks like a cute black moggie to me too.

Burms and Bombays have a different head shape. Burmese don't come in black, and Bombays have stunning gold eyes.
http://www.cfainc.org/breeds/profiles/burmese.html
http://www.cfainc.org/breeds/profiles/bombay.html

Neither - just a normal black domestic shorthair. If anything, he could have a little Europeon style of Burm in him but probably not.

American Burmese and Bombays are quite different looking then your cat. Bombays basically are black Burmese in type.

Welcome,
You are fortunate...
black kitties make wonderful companions.
My black beauty, Isis, came into our lives last April.
Like your handsome Louie, she is a joy to have in our family.
I would call them both, black, domestic, short hair kitties.
Please make yourself at home.

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First of all let me say that I am not a breed snob by any means, and couldn't care less if my kitties have any "royal" blood or not. I love them unconditionally, each in her own unique way. I also understand that unless a cat has pedigree papers, they are technically either a DSH or DLH.

Having said that, last night I was watching Cats 101 on Animal Planet, and my ears perked way up when they were describing the British Bombay breed. Absolutely every trait they described fit my little Squeak exactly!

- She is very dense and surprisingly heavy for her size.
- She is sleek and very shiny, and my husband has often said she looks just like a little panther.
- She is the most curious cat I've ever had and has to be in the middle of whatever you are doing - on the bathroom counter while brushing my teeth, licking the water in the sink, for example.
- She is a talker and will respond every time she is talked to, and her voice is high pitched, hence her name, lol! If I say, "Where's my Squeaky" she will come running and squeaking!
- She is very muscular and can jump a good 4 feet off the ground straight up without first crouching.
- She loves her toys, and loves to play fetch, and "catfishing" with my husband. He has a furry toy mouse attached to a fishing rod which she loves!
- When she isn't fetching, she will play "hockey" with her toy mice, scooting them up and down our tiled hall.
- She loves to play with a friend's dog. She doesn't hiss or growl and she chases him around the house!
- She torments my other cat Dusty with her "in your face" cattitude toward her. Dusty responds with hissing and growling, but Squeak just wants to play (I think).
- She is a lap cat, and has to be sleeping on or next to one of us at night (heat seeking), and she also emits a great deal of heat too.

http://mybombaycat.com/bombay-cat-ch...d-personality/
http://www.ehow.com/how_2051486_how-...ombay-cat.html

As far as Squeak's background and littermates go, I know nothing. I acquired her when I was talking with a lady in PetSmart one day. This lady already had 10 cats, but was given this then kitten by someone else, and I agreed to take her. Now I'm really curious about her background!

Hey! I take a little offense at that. First off, all cats are royal. Ask them yourselves!! Most are also divine

Nearly all breeders started out as pet owners with cats of no particular breed. A deep love of the feline species is what unites us all, and it is a particular love for their particular breed that leads breeders to spend countless hours and dollars working to promote and preserve the breed that continues to make their heart skip a beat. We work hard to produce happy and healthy cats and kittens that embody the living standard of our breed. Part of promoting and preserving a breed is ensuring that our cats and kittens and their offspring live happy and fulfilling lives. So we spay and neuter our pets before they go to any new home.

The Bombay is a very, very rare breed. It is one of the rarest in the entire cat fancy, yet it is misidentified more than any other breed (perhaps other than the Siamese. . .) I know of two Bombay breeders in my area (300 mile radius) and one is a CFA judge. Suffice to say, these breeders take extraordinary care to ensure that their cats only reproduce within reputable breeding programs. It is terribly unlikely that your cat is a Bombay (addressed to both posters) but that does not in any way make your cat less royal and divine. ALL cats are special!

Hi Ferris!

I understand that breeders are very protective of their blood line, but we all have seen Persian cats and other distinctive recognizable breeds in shelters to know that even with or without papers, many breeds (by breed characteristics) end up in the general population of unregistered and mixed heritage in shelters or even on the streets.

I'm not in any way suggesting that I got a purebreed British Bombay, but only that my sleek black kitty shares the same identical personality traits and appearance as the registered purebred BB. I would be willing to bet that if a pure BB was DNA typed and gene mapped, she would share many of the same markers as my kitty.

But since I am not a breeder and not at all interested in being a breeder, I consider myself very fortunate to have acquired a carbon copy for free!

I've looked at several sites. There are American Bombays which have copper or orange eyes and there are British Bombays, with gold or green eyes. They are two different breeds, from everything I've read. My Squeak displays all the looks and characteristics of the British Bombay. Her eyes are more gold/greenish and she has the long, sleek, muscular body of the breed.

Neither - he's a black domestic shorthair. But I can see why you might think Burm or Bombay. He's a little like them but not enough to say he's either breed.