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Flickr/fabiogis50 Birmans are beautiful cats, so round and evenly colored that they often resemble stuffed animals. They have long silky, thin hair which rarely mats; a golden, pale body with dark points; and blue eyes. Despite its coat's similarities to the Siamese, the Birman's body is much stockier and larger. One of the most distinctive traits of Birmans is that they have completely white paws, no matter what the color of their forelimbs. Birmans most likely originated in Burma (they appear in Burmese myths), but no one can be sure as to their true origin. The first modern appearance of a Birman was during World War I, when a pair of the cats were shipped from Burma to France, thus ...