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A champagne mink Tonkinese. MarianneG2007, Flickr Name: Tonkinese Appearance: According to The Cat Pages, the Tonkinese is a difficult cat for show judges to analyze because of its lack of distinguishing characteristics about its body or its coat. A Tonkinese does every thing in medium. It is of medium height, medium build, and medium musculature, but one should be able to tell the difference between it and its two close relatives, the Burmese and the Siamese. The Tonkinese comes in four coats -- natural, champagne, blue and platinum -- and three different color patterns: pointed, solid and mink. Thus, there are twelve different combinations of Tonkinese types, with several of them looking ...

Flickr/Chris Isherwood One of the most well-known cat breeds, the Siamese is a naturally occurring breed that originated in Thailand, which was Siam when the cats were first discovered. Siamese cats have triangular skulls with almond shaped eyes, and very large, thin ears and they come in two varieties: modern and traditional. The modern Siamese is lanky and long in every part of its body, with well-developed musculature beneath its very short fur. The Thai, or traditional, Siamese are much less lanky, with an apple shaped head, and rounded limbs and torso. Both types of Siamese are distinguished by their distinctive color-point pattern -- the coloration on their face and ears, hands and ...

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 ...