HORIZONS' CATTERY Burmese and Burmillas check out the link, that's miss ann and jean

Index page - Update Aug 10 '10 - we go video - - update breedings - - to the Sales Page

Many folks ask us "What is a Burmilla?". In short, it is a Burmese, bred one time in it's ancestry to a Chinchilla Persian (A Burmese with a little bit of "Chinchilla"). Hence the name. The favoured form and that most shown, is the black/brown shaded silver, but the cat can come in all patterns and colours emulating many different breeds, including some that are identical to a Burmese. .... Different jurisdictions handle the breed in slightly different ways than we do in CCA, including a few who allow breeding back to the "Chinchilla". We refer to that cat as a "Chin-ese" ;-)) (A "Chinchilla" with little bit of Burmese). For more on all this see the Burmilla/Tiffanie, Genetics, and ABCS links below. For us it is the famous Burmese character that counts.

a red Burmese and 3 Burmillas; a cameo(red), a cream, and a sable shaded silver

see following pages for more.

Please note We are on SKYPE (computer to computer phone) and ICHAT at 'kiddbatt'. If you are long distance we can post a movie of the kitten in question to the web site.

The objective of this site is to :

Introduce the reader to our Cats.
Explain our breeding program.
Promote the Foreign/European Burmese and Burmilla breeds.
Encourage breeders and pet owners to consider the joys of life with these lovable furry friends.

Readers should understand that this site is always "a work in progress". It functions primarly as cattery logbook, photos are for record keeping , are generally unamended and natural.

To find out more about our program and view some of our cats, we refer you to our following pages:

The Burmese section - our overview of their history and our breeding objectives. We have a detail discussion of the Head defect.and how it may apply to the Burmilla

Foreign and European Burmese -- the breeding cats listed and described in order of age with links to dam and sire..

Burmilla/Tiffanie section - - what they are, where we are taking them, our breeding objectives and program, plus

Recent history. the political history and includes an 2000 article Theresa Meyers authored for Cat Fancy Magazine on the Asian cat.
Burmilla history page a listing of our cats and their lines
Short Hair Burmillas-- the breeding cats listed and described in order of age with links to dam and sire.
Long Hair Burmilla (Tiffanie) -- the breeding cats listed and described in order of age with links to dam and sire..

Genetics

Genetics I These are our genetics notes. They may not be totally clear as they follow our learning process. First time readers should go to genetics II below. This page is further subdivided into the breeding lines as they have developed from the original cats. This is a large page and can be slow to load.

Genetics II This is broad based, practical, cat genetics discussion of what we are seeing in the breeding program. It is a consolidation of the notes in Genetics 1 and has been spell checked. ;-). It might be of interest to Burmese people as well.

Genetics III Our paper on the Unified View of Silver published 2010. We discuss a different view of silver genetics, (yes we say there is silver in some Burmese); An explanation of "smoking" , source of the Dilution modifier effect, Barrington, and speculate (wrongly it seems)on Lockets in Burmese. We tabulate the responses and answer questions.

Notable Non Working Cats - - This is a index viewing of our favorite pets and alma mater, listed alphabeticlly with links to detail pages. Is is our breeding history. Direct connection to individual pages is shown below listed by retirement date. They are separated due to size and are provided as an alternative to a rather impersonal pedigree. Most of the kittens offered for sale on the sales page (see below) can be traced through multiple generations by these pictures. Some of the internal links may be broken. This sometimes happens when we move cats to the different pages, but the links exist in more than one place so try elsewhere..Please note- these cats are not for sale. Most have long since departed to homes of their own.

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Sales Page these are retired adults and kittens for sale . The listing is linked to the parents. It also includes the breeding plans and a listing of breeding males and females and has as a sub load a sales discussion page for topics of interest to large for email.
Pedigrees this is a very large section unto its own. It is further subdivided, and includes a section of historical pedigrees and the pedigrees of the cats that founded or were imported into these catteries.
Persian page - This page is for information on our foundation Persian boy who is now retired. We expect to bring in another boy in the future.
Health page - this page is for information related to health within a cattery and includes feeding directions for new owners of our cats.
A BCS page - this page as a source page for the Asian Burmilla Cat Society and is a slow work in progress.

Based in the Greater Toronto, Canada, area, we specialize in "European"Burmese, and are in the process of introducing the Burmilla to Canada and the United States. The Cattery is registered with both the Canadian Cat Assoc. (CCA) and the American based Cat Fancy Assoc. (CFA). European Burmese is what we breed under CFA registry, Foreign Burmese is the term used by CCA. All cats meet the European Burmese standard of CFA.

The Foreign Burmese was introduced to the Canadian Cat Show World in 1986, by Jean Morphee-Barnard of STRATHKIRK Cattery. She began her lines by breeding cats with British backgrounds to traditional Canadian Burmese. Jean subsequently imported additional British cats in order to specialize in the Red and Cream colours. The first Cream Burmese to achieve Championship status in Canada was Strathkirk's Sam The Man in the Summer of 1993.

By the Fall of 1993, STRATHKIRK and Horizon's Cattery, (Ann Kidd and Ivan Battye), began working together to pursue the Foreign Burmese Breeding Program and to bring the Burmilla to Canada. In December 1995 we were fortunate to import a male and female "Tiffanie", (long haired Burmilla), from England. In 1996, a Chinchilla Persian was also acquired for our own foundation breeding.

In 1998 the Burmilla was accorded full championship status in CCA thus completing their formal recognition. CFA do not currently recognise the Burmilla.

In 1998 we imported 3 European Burmese from South Africa in order to out-cross our lines. In 1999 we imported a a European Burmese boy, Wigram, of French and Swiss pedigree. In the fall of 2000 we imported 2 Burmillas from Ireland and added 2 European Burmese from England who came via the United States. In March 2002 two European Burmese were added from Ireland. Nov. 2002 Heaven arrived from Germany. She is a European Burmese with German and Australian lines. In 2004 two European Burmese of Australian Pedigree were aquired. In 2005 a "European Burmese" from CFA arrived. In the spring of 2006 a Burmilla was imported from Denmark. In late 2006 and 2007 we started working with a Quebec based Persian Breeder with an interest in the Burmilla. They have aquired various European Burmese and undertaken a foundation breeding creating a totally new line of Burmillas using a North American bred Chinchilla Persian. He is Catsland Elliot. Horizons Oprah is from that program as is Catsland Roy Brown of Horizons, a CFA/CCA European Burmese of Australian origins.

Our cats are bred to produce a hybrid vigor by the use of Canadian, British, American, European, South African, and Australian Burmese lines. We avoid contemporary Burmese in our pedigrees. Our cats are home raised and bred for purr-sonality. Kittens are available for Pet, Breed, or Show.

We also wish to give our cats the quality of life that a breeding program may not provide. As such, we attempt to spay or neuter our cats by the age of 4. In this way, males can roam free of being caged and females can turn their attention to having fun rather than nursing kittens! We try to be extra careful when placing these retired adults in order to match their personality to the new situation, they are our pets, we know them well and sometimes it can take a while for their hormones to calm down. If there should be any settling in problem we will gladly take them back. In some cases, a female is only bred once and is ready to go to her new home by the age of 18 months.

We would be pleased to address your inquiries and comments. You can reach any one of us at kiddbatt@osha.igs.net , or kiddbatt@mac.com by phone at 905 665 1534.

We are sometimes asked for permission to use our pictures and/or our information. We have no objection to their use, however we do ask that you advise us and give appropriate credit and links to this site. We are purposefully not copyrighted.

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