British Shorthair Cat Coat Colors

The coat comes in just about any color or pattern you could wish for including lilac chocolate black white pointed tabby and many more.

British shorthair cat coat colors. Dominant to black chocolate and cinnamon. The shorthair does not reach full physical maturity until he is 3 to 5 years old. Red as a british shorthair colour is still at the provisional stage. The british shorthair s most common color variety is that of the blue one.

This information is only applicable when the cat has one of this colors. Black blue chocolate lilac cinnamon fawn red cream and sometimes silver tabby. Usually orange amber and gold eyes are considered the most beautiful for a cat from this breed. It s quite a recent addition.

There are other colors and patterns as well. A coat of blue gray with copper colored eyes and a medium tail is the most recognizable characteristics of this breed. A male cat has one x and one y chromosome. 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.

Within our silver golden and colour point lines there are beautiful specialised colours our colours are chocolate lilac black blue cinnamon. All the other colors you see are actually patterns that affect these basic colors. British shorthair colours and patterns most people think of a british blue as being the colour of the british shorthair breed. The cat s nose and pads should be brick red.

The breed has also been developed in a wide range of other colours and patterns including tabby and colorpoint. Within our silver golden and colour point lines there are beautiful specialised colours our colours are chocolate lilac black blue cinnamon. With different types of markings. The coat colour should be a deep rich red with a few tabby stripes or markings anywhere as possible.

Ticked ta spotted t coat markings which is the tabby banding of colours on a cat s fur. The best known color is blue gray and the cats are sometimes referred to as british blues. 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. There s golden silver cream red white blue and black.

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. Children and other pets.