Burmilla

Coat

Smoke/Shaded/Chinchilla: Any shaded or chinchilla combination except for those including cinnamon/fawn, in silver or golden base.

Burmese Shaded/Chinchilla: Burmilla-specific colour created by combining shaded/chinchilla with Burmese/sepia colouring. The pattern may follow the usual shaded/chinchilla rules, or tipping may only be visible on the points, as per the Burmese doc. When tipping is only visible on the points, the optional areas of the regular shaded/chinchilla pattern are still optional, and the required base colour areas are still required to be the base colour.
When a swatch has multiple colours (e.g. Brown (95)/Black (35)), the darker colour is used on the points. The darker colour may also be used as body shading.

Silver Shaded/Chinchilla
Seal Burmese Silver Shaded/Chinchilla: White (15) base with Black (35) Brown (95) Seal (Texture) or Brown (95)/Black (35), Seal (Texture)/Black (35) pointed tipping.
Blue Burmese Silver Shaded/Chinchilla: White (15) base with Blue (115) or Grey (25)/Blue (115) pointed tipping.
Chocolate Burmese Silver Shaded/Chinchilla: White (15) base with Brown (95) or Tan (105)/Brown (95) pointed tipping.
Lilac Burmese Silver Shaded/Chinchilla: White (15) base with Grey (25) Dusty (125) Lilac (Texture) or Dusty (125)/Grey (25), Lilac (Texture)/Grey (25) pointed tipping.
Red Burmese Silver Shaded/Chinchilla: White (15) base with Orange (65) Tan (105) or Cream (45)/Orange (65), Tan (105)/Red (55) pointed tipping.
Cream Burmese Silver Shaded/Chinchilla: White (15) base with Cream (45) Ivory (Texture) or Ivory (Texture)/Cream (45) pointed tipping.

Seal Burmese Tortie Silver Shaded/Chinchilla: White (15) base with Cream (45) Orange (65) and Black (35) Seal (Texture) tipping.
Blue Burmese Tortie Silver Shaded/Chinchilla: White (15) base with Cream (45) Tan (105) Ivory (Texture) and Grey (25) Blue (115) tipping.
Chocolate Burmese Tortie Silver Shaded/Chinchilla: White (15) base with Cream (45) Orange (65) and Brown (95) tipping.
Lilac Burmese Tortie Silver Shaded/Chinchilla: White (15) base with Cream (45) Ivory (Texture) and Grey (25) Lilac (Texture) tipping.

Gold Shaded/Chinchilla
Seal Burmese Gold Shaded/Chinchilla: Cream (45) Tan (105) base with Black (35) Brown (95) Seal (Texture) or Brown (95)/Black (35), Seal (Texture)/Black (35) pointed tipping.
Blue Burmese Gold Shaded/Chinchilla: Cream (45) Tan (105) Ivory (Texture) base with Blue (115) or Grey (25)/Blue (115) pointed tipping.
Chocolate Burmese Gold Shaded/Chinchilla: Cream (45) Tan (105) Ivory (Texture) base with Brown (95) or Tan (105)/Brown (95) pointed tipping.
Lilac Burmese Gold Shaded/Chinchilla: Cream (45) Ivory (Texture) base with Grey (25) Dusty (125) Lilac (Texture) or Dusty (125)/Grey (25), Lilac (Texture)/Grey (25) pointed tipping.
Red Burmese Gold Shaded/Chinchilla: White (15) Cream (45) Ivory (Texture) base with Orange (65) Tan (105) or Cream (45)/Orange (65), Tan (105)/Red (55) pointed tipping.
Cream Burmese Gold Shaded/Chinchilla: White (15) Cream (45) Ivory (Texture) base with Cream (45) Ivory (Texture) or Ivory (Texture)/Cream (45) pointed tipping.

Seal Burmese Tortie Gold Shaded/Chinchilla: Cream (45) Ivory (Texture) base with Cream (45) Orange (65) and Black (35) Seal (Texture) tipping.
Blue Burmese Tortie Gold Shaded/Chinchilla: Cream (45) Ivory (Texture) base with Cream (45) Tan (105) Ivory (Texture) and Grey (25) Blue (115) tipping.
Chocolate Burmese Tortie Gold Shaded/Chinchilla: Cream (45) Ivory (Texture) base with Cream (45) Orange (65) and Brown (95) tipping.
Lilac Burmese Tortie Gold Shaded/Chinchilla: Ivory (Texture) base with Cream (45) Ivory (Texture) and Grey (25) Lilac (Texture) tipping.

For all torties, Cream (45) is only allowed as a base colour if not used as a tipping colour.

Comes in longhair and shorthair varieties.

Eyes

Yellow Green (167-168) Green (2/130-139/197-198/217) Green Gold (169)

Nose

Matches surrounding coat.

Faults

Wrong nose colour.

Disqualifications

White spotting.
Solid, tortie, and Burmese (non-shaded/chinchilla).
Any other colour or pattern, including tabby and smoke.

Conformation Champion Showcase

Conformation Champion: Fire's Heart Of A Champion

Ch. Fire's Heart Of A Champion

Duchess

A260311056
Conformation Champion: Folklore Red Shaded

Ch. Folklore Red Shaded

Orange

A260614020

Notes

An elegant cat of foreign type, the Burmilla originates from an accidental mating between a European Burmese and a Chinchilla Persian. The kittens produced (shorthaired silvers tipped with deep brown, or sable chinchilla silvers) were so striking that a breed was soon developed. Today’s Burmilla is a young breed that is still in development, and so the breed is constantly undergoing changes and improvements. Some breeders push for allowing a full rainbow of colours, claiming that there are several hundred genetically possible colours in the breed, whereas others are much stricter and only support the showing of a select number of classic Burmilla colours. As with many new breeds, other colours will likely be accepted over time.

Type & Judging Remarks
Type is moderate, closely resembling the European Burmese. Excessive, Persian-style cobbiness is undesirable. Tipping as even as possible. Shaded and chinchillas must be clearly distinct from each other.

Breed Files

Burmilla - Long Way Home (Longhair)

Long Way Home (Longhair)

Filename: Burmilla Longhair LWH
Offset: 4502
Base: Russian Blue
SCP: Russian Blue
Accepted: January 22, 2015
Notes: Longhair variety. Five tail variations, 3 coat thickness variations, optional ear hair and ear tufts. Please note that orange eyes are not accepted in this breed.
Burmilla - Long Way Home (Shorthair)

Long Way Home (Shorthair)

Filename: Burmilla Shorthair LWH
Offset: 4501
Base: Russian Blue
SCP: Russian Blue
Accepted: November 16, 2014
Notes: Shorthair variety. Addball tail (5 variations). Please note that orange eyes are not accepted in this breed.
Burmilla - VPZ

VPZ

Filename: Tiffanie VPZ
Offset: 9405
Base: Tabby
SCP: Russian Blue
Accepted: December 26, 2005
Notes: Longhair variety, previously called Tiffanie.
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