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Flickr/nuena Burmese cats, like Bombay cats, have two varieties: British (or European) Burmese, and American Burmese, although many cat registries recognize no distinction. Both breeds are small-to-medium-sized cats that have sturdy bodies, round heads, large eyes, full cheeks, a pressed-in face, and an evenly colored coat of short hair. The British variety tend to have more triangular faces than their American counterparts. Burmese are often noted to be heavier than they look, and have been described as "bricks wrapped in silk." The first Burmese cats on record were written about in 14th–18th-century Siam as one of the three types of cat in the country. (Soldiers probably brought ...

Flickr/The Cats Love Bombays come in two types: British and American. British Bombays are black Burmese cats and nothing more. However, the American Bombay is a typical example of modern, forced hybridization. Rather than spontaneous mutation, American Bombays (which will from here on out be referred to just as Bombays) were bred when Nikki Horner of Louisville, Ky. decided she wanted to make a breed of consistently black cats to give a black-panther-like appearance. She started by breeding a black American shorthair with a black Burmese. Bombays are muscular cats with round, wide heads and short muzzles, but not a flattened look. Their eyes are usually brown or green and should be similar ...