Burmilla

A sub-domain website to the Pictures of Cats website, about the Burmilla Cat breed.

Saturday, 7 March 2009

Burmilla Pictures

This website contains the best Burmilla pictures I can find and some useful information plus a very nice video. This video really summarizes the Burmilla cat breed and explains some of the differences between the British approach to the breed and the Canadian approach. Canada has a healthy cat fancy. Here's the video:



As is often the case, there is different terminology from one cat fancy to the next and one cat association to the next. From the layperson's point of view I think the terms should all be amalgamated and unified but, hey, it won't happen for a long time.

The Burmilla is a relatively rare cat breed. That translates into few Burmilla pictures but the video above is a moving picture and you can't beat that. Here, also, are two fine Burmilla pictures taken by a Flickr photographer, Adrian Midgley (this takes you to Flickr and the photographer's home page there):

Burmilla cat picture

Although I am not a great fan of cat collars (for safety reasons mainly) this one looks so good on this Burmilla. Here is another by the same photographer and there are others on this website:

Burmilla cat
Burmilla cat - photo by Adrian Midgley

There are more pictures on this site.

Monday, 16 June 2008

Burmilla Breeders

Burmilla cat
Burmilla cat - photo copyright perlmonger. Published under a creative commons license which allows for the cropping that has taken place. Thanks for license.

I've wouldn't be doing this mini-website justice without listing some selected Burmilla Breeders. Here are some websites that I like. I can only filter breeders from their websites. Thereafter it is a matter of visiting, which is pretty much a must do (note sometimes people remove web pages and websites so although these are live links as at the date of the post they may no remain that way):


GEMS's and Araboth Burmillas and Asians
This is a well established cattery (about 9 years or more it seems) based in Polegate . This is on the south coast of England, a nice part of the country.

Burmilla Cat Club
This is a UK cat club with a fine list of Burmilla breeders in the UK. The link takes you straight to the breeders page.

Miamber Burmilla and Burmese

Located in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. A well established small hobby cattery - probably the best kind of cattery as profit is not usually the prime concern.

Aaralyn Cattery
Located in Wollstonecraft, New South Wales, Australia.

Note: I had difficulty, as you might realize, in finding many Burmilla Breeders. This is a relatively rare cat - ranked 9 out of 10 on my analysis of the rare cat breeds. I could not find a USA breeder. And I looked on the internet for a good 30 mins. The breeders mentioned were the easiest to find and the UK is possibly the place for Burmillas judging by the number of breeders there. I am sure that there are US breeders but they don't jump out at you on a Google search - sorry.


Burmilla Breeders to Burmese cat