Chapter 4: Pictorial look at British breeds

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WHITE (14)

Coat colour to be pure white untinged with yellow.

Nose leather and paw pads pink

14. Blue-eyed with deep sapphire blue eyes.

12a Orange-eyed with eyes of copper orange or deep gold

14b Odd-eyed with one eye sapphire blue and the other copper orange or deep gold

BLACK (15)

Coat colour to be jet black

Nose leather and paws black

CHOCOLATE (15b)

Coat colour any shade of rich chocolate

Nose leather and paws chocolate or pink

LILAC (15c)

Coat colour frosty grey with a distinct pinkish tone giving an overall lilac appearance

Nose leather and paw pads pinkish lilac

RED SELF (15d)

Coat colour deep rich red

Nose leather and paw pads brick red

CINNAMON (15k)

Coat colour warm cinnamon brown

Nose leather and paw pads pink or cinnamon brown

FAWN (15k)

Coat colour warm rosy mushroom

Nose leather and paw pads pinkish fawn

BLUE (16)

Coat colour light to medium blue

Nose leather and paw pads blue

CREAM (17)

Coat colour pale-toned cream, neither red nor fawn

Nose leather and paw pads pink

CLASSIC TABBIES

(there are occasional Mackerel Tabbies)

BLACK SILVER TABBY (18)

Coat colour: dense black markings on ground colour which is silver in all areas

Nose leather: brick red preferred but black permissible

Paw pads black

Eyes green or hazel --- but it should be noted that in many breed lines it may take up to three years for eye colour to be perfected in many silver tabbies.

 BLUE SILVER TABBY (18a)

Coat colour: blue markings on ground colour which is pale silvery blue

Nose leather: blue

Paw pads blue or pink

Eyes copper orange or deep gold

Mrs. Pat Kidd's Gr Ch Kresta Edwin (18a)

CHOCOLATE SILVER TABBY (18b)

Coat colour: chocolate markings on ground colour which is pale silvery chocolate

Nose leather: chocolate

Paw pads chocolate or pink

Eyes copper orange or deep gold

LILAC SILVER TABBY (18c)

Coat colour: lilac markings on ground colour which is pale silvery lilac

Nose leather and paw pads pinkish

Eyes copper orange or deep gold

RED SILVER TABBY (18d)

Coat colour: red markings on ground colour which is pale silvery cream

Nose leather and paw pads red

Eyes copper orange or deep gold

CREAM SILVER TABBY (18f)

Coat colour: cream markings on ground colour which is silvery near white

Nose leather and paw pads pink

Eyes copper orange or deep gold

RED TABBY (19)

Coat colour: deep rich red markings on ground colour which is pale red in all areas

Nose leather: brick red

Paw pads black

Eyes copper orange or deep gold

BROWN TABBY (20)

Coat colour: dense black markings on rich copper brown ground colour in all areas

Nose leather: brick red preferred though black permissible

Paw pads black

Eyes copper orange or deep gold

The author's Kresta Hannah (20) 1989 - 1991 who gained 2 CCs.

BLUE TABBY (20a)

Coat colour: deep blue markings on a ground colour of bluish fawn

Nose leather and paw pads blue or pink

Eyes copper orange or deep gold

CHOCOLATE TABBY (20b)

Coat colour: rich chocolate markings on ground colour which is warm-toned bronze

Nose leather chocolate

Paw pads chocolate or pink

Eyes copper orange or deep gold

LILAC TABBY (20c)

Coat colour: lilac markings on ground colour which is cool-toned beige

Nose leather and paw pads pink

Eyes copper orange or deep gold

CREAM TABBY (20f)

Coat colour: rich cream markings on ground colour which is cool-toned cream

Nose leather and paw pads pink

Eyes copper orange or deep gold

SPOTTED BRITISH:

COAT COLOURS ARE AS FOR THE CLASSIC TABBY, BUT SPOTTED MARKINGS APART FROM THE 'M' HEAD PATTERN AND NARROW TAIL RINGS.

The author's home bred Gr Ch & Int Ch Cadifee Bracken Lad (30)

Photo Vince Hogan

 

Bracken Lad's dam, Gr Ch & Int. Pr Cadifee Dotsabracken

The first of Gr Ch & Gr Pr Kernmere Silver Lining's kittens to be kept and shown

 

 

Ursula Graves' Gr Ch Sargenta Blue Gismo (30a)

11.07.1991 - 08.08.2002

 

30b

30c

Cadifee Didymus (30d)

30d

30f

Ursula Graves' Grand Champion Sargenta Silver Alfred (30s)

14.04.1986 - 26.05.1999

Miss Jeanette Knapp's Ch & Pr Mardenka Mariella (30s)

As for the silver tabby, but it should be noted that in many breed lines it may take up to three years for eye colour to be perfected in many silver tabbies.

30as

30bs

30cs

30ds

30fs

TORTIE TABBIES

TORTOISESHELL PATTERN OVERLAID WITH THE TABBY AND SPOTTED MARKINGS AS ABOVE.

TORTOISESHELL (21)

Coat colour: a mixture of the base colour with red or cream as appropriate, evenly intermingled, with but colours clearly defined over the whole cat but without any obvious patches of any colour with the exception of a short narrow blaze on the face.

Nose leather and paw pads pink and/or the colour corresponding with the colour of the patches

Eyes copper orange or deep gold

The author's Sliabh Northernight (21), bred by J Martin O’Sullivan

TORTOISESHELL AND WHITE (22)

BLUE TORTIE AND WHITE (22a)

CHOCOLATE TORTIE AND WHITE (22b)

LILAC TORTIE AND WHITE (22c)

BI-COLOURS

Coat colour patches of one self-colour and white. Preferably one third and no more than one half to be white. Symmetry of pattern desirable, preferably with colour on the top of the head ears cheeks back tail and flanks.

Nose leather and paw pads pink and/or the colour corresponding with the patches

Eyes copper orange or deep gold

BLACK & WHITE BI-COLOUR (31)

BLUE & WHITE BI-COLOUR (31a)

Mrs. G Binns' Ch & Gr Pr Cavmere Pressure Ridge (31)

CHOCOATE & WHITE BI-COLOR (31b)

LILAC & WHITE BI-COLOUR (31c)

RED & WHITE BI-COLOUR (31d)

CREAM & WHITE BI-COLOUR (31f)

VAN PATTERN BI-COLOUR (31w aw, de, fw)

SMOKE

Breed 39+ : Tipped

The British tipped is a shorthaired version of the chinchilla and called "shaded silver" in other countries. Genetically it is silver, with the colour restricted to the very ends of the hair. The undercoat colour looks white, while the tipping helps to make the coat shimmer as the cat moves.

Tipping can be any of the British colours but the majority are black tipped. The breed was developed in the 1970's by Norman Winder (Peerless) by mating a longhair Chinchilla to a British Silver Tabby.

The tipping should be restricted to the back, flanks, head, ears and tail. The black tipped has green eyes outlined in black, the outline to the nose and paw pads are also black. Other colours are rarer and have orange eyes and the outlining corresponding to the coat colour.

The Golden Tipped is a close relative of the silver tipped and instead of a sliver coat the golden is apricot, again with black tipping and the green eyes.

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