British Shorthair Black And White Cat
A tuxedo cat or felix cat is a bicolor cat with a white and black coat.
British shorthair black and white cat. My very attentive mother cat peach has given birth to 3 beautiful white girl kittens who are now 6 weeks old. They re easygoing loyal and calm. A white british shorthair cat can have sapphire blue eyes known as a blue eyed white bsh. The tuxedo pattern is not limited to the color black but the name is typically reserved for black and white cats.
He is known in cat fancy history as the father of the cat fancy. Turtles are mixtures with cream or red. Later to improve the quality and thickness of their coat original british shorthair were crossbred with the furry persian cats. Odd eyed bsh cats must have one sapphire blue eye and one amber or golden eye.
The british shorthair is native to england. Patterns in the fur of the british shorthair having a large range of colors in british short hair such as black blue red cream chocolate lilac turtles cinnamon and faw in addition to whites would be bicolor and tricolor or whole white. Other eye colour combinations are not accepted. The british shorthair while originally coming from the farms and streets of britain is also considered to be the first cat of the cat fancy.
British shorthair coat colors vary from blue brown silver cream to red as well as black and white. The british shorthair is the pedigreed version of the traditional british domestic cat with a distinctively stocky body dense coat and broad face the most familiar color variant is the british blue a solid grey blue coat orange eyes and a medium sized tail. With the rise of cat shows during the victorian era cat fanciers began to breed the cats to a particular standard and keep pedigrees for them. The british shorthair is an incredibly popular cat in england and where they re most commonly blue but the breed can produce black and white cats too.
All others were simply described by coat type or color. The breed has also been developed in a wide range of other colours and patterns including tabby and colorpoint. Originally bred to keep rodents at bay in homes and on farms shorthair breeds have a thick dense coat that was designed to keep them warm when living outside. The tricolors are only females.
The father of this breed is harrison wier who is thought of as the first professional cat breeder. Black shorthair cats are descendants of british shorthair cats. At the earliest cat shows british shorthairs were the only pedigreed cats exhibited. Born 8 8 2020 1 black with white socks girl 1 black with white socks boy 2 white and black boys 1 white and black girl will be ready.
They are called tuxedo cats because they appear to be wearing the type of black tie formal wear commonly known in the united states and canada as a tuxedo. Short legged but full bodied british shorthair cats are undemanding mellow and yet very intelligent. They are very affection little bundles of cuteness.