PKC - 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. Visible point pattern optional; the shaded/chinchilla pattern overrides the Burmese patterns, so if there is tipping, it would follow the Burmese pattern, but if there isn't tipping, there is no visible Burmese pattern.

Silver shaded/chinchilla
Seal burmese silver shaded/chinchilla:

base with

pointed tipping
Blue burmese silver shaded/chinchilla:

base with

pointed tipping
Chocolate burmese silver shaded/chinchilla:

base with

pointed tipping
Lilac burmese silver shaded/chinchilla:

base with

pointed tipping
Red burmese silver shaded/chinchilla:

base with

pointed tipping
Cream burmese silver shaded/chinchilla:

base with

pointed tipping

Seal burmese tortie silver shaded/chinchilla:

base with

and

tipping
Blue burmese tortie silver shaded/chinchilla:

base with

and

tipping
Chocolate burmese tortie silver shaded/chinchilla:

base with

and

tipping
Lilac burmese tortie silver shaded/chinchilla:

base with

and

tipping

Golden shaded/chinchilla
Seal burmese golden shaded/chinchilla:

base with

pointed tipping
Blue burmese golden shaded/chinchilla:

base with

pointed tipping
Chocolate burmese golden shaded/chinchilla:

base with

pointed tipping -

only allowed as a base colour if not used as a tipping colour
Lilac burmese golden shaded/chinchilla:

base with

pointed tipping
Red burmese golden shaded/chinchilla:

base with

pointed tipping -

only allowed as a base colour if not used as a tipping colour
Cream burmese golden shaded/chinchilla:

base with

pointed tipping

Seal burmese tortie golden shaded/chinchilla:

base with

and

tipping
Blue burmese tortie golden shaded/chinchilla:

base with

and

tipping
Chocolate burmese tortie golden shaded/chinchilla:

base with

and

tipping
Lilac burmese tortie golden shaded/chinchilla:

base with

and

tipping
For all torties,

is only allowed as a base colour if not used as a tipping colour.

Eyes

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.
Copper, gold, and yellow eyes were removed in Feb 2021, and will be DQ by August 2021.

Varieties

Longhair, Shorthair

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

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.

Filename: Burmilla Shorthair LWH
Offset: 4501
Base: Russian Blue
SCP: Russian Blue
Accepted: November 16, 2014
Notes: Shorthair variety. Addball tail (5 variations)

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