British Shorthair Cat Coat Colors

The breed has also been developed in a wide range of other colours and patterns including tabby and colorpoint.

British shorthair cat coat colors. We specialise in breeding british shorthair british longhair cats we breed the delightful shimmer of shaded chinchilla tipping ticked kittens in a beautiful range of specialised colours. Children and other pets. All the other colors you see are actually patterns that affect these basic colors. It s quite a recent addition.

Within our silver golden and colour point lines there are beautiful specialised colours our colours are chocolate lilac black blue cinnamon. The british shorthair s most common color variety is that of the blue one. There are other colors and patterns as well. Dominant to black chocolate and cinnamon.

The coat on the back flanks head ears and tail should be tipped with color. Red as a british shorthair colour is still at the provisional stage. The cat s nose and pads should be brick red. A male cat has one x and one y chromosome.

The best known color is blue gray and the cats are sometimes referred to as british blues. The shorthair does not reach full physical maturity until he is 3 to 5 years old. This information is only applicable when the cat has one of this colors. Usually orange amber and gold eyes are considered the most beautiful for a cat from this breed.

Within our silver golden and colour point lines there are beautiful specialised colours our colours are chocolate lilac black blue cinnamon. British shorthair colours and patterns most people think of a british blue as being the colour of the british shorthair breed. With different types of markings. A coat of blue gray with copper colored eyes and a medium tail is the most recognizable characteristics of this breed.

There s golden silver cream red white blue and black. It is certainly the most popular and well known colour but in actual fact there are literally hundreds of colour and pattern combination british shorthairs being bred all over the world. Red is attached to the x chromosome. Shaded golden the non silver version of the shaded tipped british shorthair in which the undercoat is a rich warm cream color with a mantle of black dark brown tipping.

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. Black blue chocolate lilac cinnamon fawn red cream and sometimes silver tabby.