Cat Breeds - Birma Cats

Cat Personality

Burmese companions are loving, gentle and loyal with the dignity the water, inviting the worship of their human companion seems to be. Like the ancient temple Cats Birma seem to have adoration Burmese used. They are very intelligent and affectionate, as fans, and very oriented to the people. They are usually welcome guests with curiosity, not fear.


Because of their gentle temperament, the Burmese are easy to manage and process displays, and make ideal pets (Cat Birma) for those seeking peace and fellows who want love and affection in exchange for some "well-deserved adoration.

Cat Breed Traits

Burmese perfectly with white gloves to the end of Paws event in front of or between the second and third joints of the leg. Feet on the back, must cover all the gloves and toes can spread over the gloves on the front legs. Gloves should be extended to the heel and the area is on top. Ideally, the laces end in a point or vice versa (V) and the expansion the half to three-quarters of the rise of the heel. Latsch symmetry is desirable. Ideally, the gloves must fit in front of the case of gambling, gaming and new gloves and laces. Burma, however, get good gloves thorn in the paw of each Burmese breeder.


Burma are born pure white, then develop the color points. The shading of the legs is if the waiting time is anxious for the marking of gloves, a Burmese breeder show because the characters are too perfect Gloves of the most difficult. The gene for dominant white gene is the reason of identification, which is very difficult to control.

History - Birman cat breed?

According to an ancient legend, pure white cats lived in the Buddhist temples in the country of Burma (now Myanmar), and human resources have revered as the cat carrier, the souls of priests who had left the mortal plane. (The end of this process is the conversion, which means from one form to another.) Goddess of transmutation, Tsim-Kyan-CFE worshiped in these temples, represented by a golden statue with the brilliant sapphire eyes.

Mun-Ha, a priest and worshipers Tsim-Kyan-CFE, served in the temple of Lao-Tsun. Every night, lived a faithful companion Sinh Mun Ha, one of the 100 white cats in the Holy Temple, Ha Mun to his prayer the night before the image of gold.

One day the Marauders from Siam attacked the temple in its richness and met Mun-Ha. As Mun-Ha was dying, his paws on the Sinh Mun-Ha's head and front of the statue of Tsim-Kyan-CFE.

Suddenly, the white coat Sinh turned into gold, his face, tail and legs darken the color of earth, and his eyes change from yellow to deep blue sapphire. Sinh paws remained white as a symbol of pure spirit Mun-Ha. The next morning, all the cats of the temple under the same transformation. For the next 7 days Sinh refused all food and eventually died, shall Mun-Ha was the spirit in the sky.

The modern and scientific history of the breed, also known as Holy cat of Burma, beginning in 1919, came a few Burmese Paul in France. Two different accounts associated with this pair of cats and, as the legend, no account documented. The first is that at the turn of the twentieth century, the temple of Tsim-Kyan-CFE was again searched. Two westerners, Auguste Pavie and Major Gordon Russell, has allowed some priests and sacred cats of her flight to Tibet. When the two returned to France in 1919 the human resources, made a pair of Birman cats priest grateful.

In the second story, less romantic, a man named Mr. Vanderbilt bought a pair of Burmese angered by an employee of the temple of Lao-Tsun.

In both accounts, was the hangover, Maldapour, who died on the voyage to France, but the female, Sita, pregnant Maldapour in France? S descendants, and became the foundation the European Burmese breed.

The race has prospered and in 1925 Burma was officially recognized in France and the first standard was written. The breed was developed and refined in this country in the chaos of World War II, Pls almost extinct. Reduced to a point Birman race for a single pair of cats.

With careful crossing, has been restored in Burma and Burma in 1955 was exported to England. The resource persons were officially classified as thoroughbred racing in Great Britain recognized in 1966.

In 1959, the couple United States of Burma, and in 1967 the breed was officially recognized in America. Since then, Burma has prospered in the United States and is on his way to a race, popular and famous.

Copyright © 1998 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. based on
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CAT BREEDS by J. Anne Helgren.