Birman experts, a little help, please.

I was googling pictures of Birman cat, & came across this picture. This Birman is different colored than the others in the pics I saw. Is this poor breeding? Can they be different colors than white & gray?
Here's the cat I am speaking of.
http://www.gotpetsonline.com/picture...irman-0009.jpg

it could be a mix?

It's a beautiful cat. It's probably a chocolate Point. I don't know a lot about the breed, but that cats colours look a lot like my Siamese girl, SunLee and she's a chocolate Point.

The cat in that picture is STUNNING.

that cat is magnificant ... I am not so good at longhairs but that could be a himi ... I think birmans have color on there legs??

I thought the cat was beautiful as well. My sister is looking into getting a Birman, & she would love one of this color. I really know nothing about the breed, but was curious. I just found the picture when I googled Brimans, & it said the cat was a Birman. I was hoping a Birman breeder or someone who knows about the breed very much could tell me.

Here's the page with the cats info. on it.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...l%3Den%26lr%3D

It looks like a red-point Birman to me, possibly a chocolate or chocolate lynx, perfectly acceptable under at least one of the big cat associations like CFA or TICA, can't remember which ones. Whatever it is, its legit.

Birmans come in lots of colors, not just white and grey, and I wonder where you even heard that, since there is no official "grey" coloration in Birmans. My Chay, for instance, is chocolate, which is a brown-type color. Blue (very dark grey), lilac (a sort of pinkish grey/purple color), chocolate (dark brown around the nose), and seal (darker brown across most of the points) points are allowed in all cat associations, and many if not all also include the red , cream points, and lynx cats. Hope that helps! Let me know if I can provide any other information!

Birmans come in the 4 traditional colors - seal, blue, chocolate, and lilac points. Some associations allow the other point colors now (red, tortie).

But the cats all have to have the Birman markings of point and the white. IMO its a chocolate point, however the white on the front legs is too much - should only be the paws. Also the back legs should have color but white "shoelaces" up the back.

There are not a lot of show Birmans born as the white spotting gene is hard to control and there are many mis-marked Birmans which make perfectly good pets.

Originally Posted by white cat lover

I was googling pictures of Birman cat, & came across this picture. This Birman is different colored than the others in the pics I saw. Is this poor breeding? Can they be different colors than white & gray?
Here's the cat I am speaking of.
http://www.gotpetsonline.com/picture...irman-0009.jpg

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well, the answer is coming a little late, but the color of the Birman you've referenced is a Lilac Point. The color has been over saturated by a photo editing program. Imagine the point color just a tad lighter. The four traditional colors are seal, blue, lilac and chocolate (lilac & chocolate being several shades lighter in both point and body color than the seal & blue). The Birman also comes in red, cream, blue cream, seal tortie, blue tortie, etc.,etc. Point color can be solid or lynx patterned, also known as tabby patterned outside the USA. I believe there are now 26 color/pattern combinations (Photos of the different colors are on the CFA Birman Breed council website. As I'm new here, I don't know if I can post the link. My favorite color is chocolate lynx, but I love Birmans in every coat color

Kelli

The traditional colors of a Birman are the 4 basic pointed colors:

Seal Point
Chocolate Point (that's the color in the picture)
Blue Point
Lilac Point

In recent years, the red colors were accepted to produce the red, cream, tortie color spectrum. It was a long hold out because Birman breeders didn't want any of the other colors because that mean there was cross breeding in the lines to get the other colors.