Our British Coat Colours
British Shorthair Coat Colours
This page is under re-construction to include the new copper/silver lines in BSH and all the different type coats markings.
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Our Classic Golden and Silver
New Colours: Golden Copper/ Shell
Black Golden
Blue Golden
Chocolate Golden
Lilac Golden
Cinnamon Golden
The Tabbies: T, Ta, Tabbies
Golden Ticked
Golden Shaded
Golden Spotted
Golden Mackerel
New Colour: Silver Copper/ Shell
Black Silver
Blue Silver
Chocolate Silver
Lilac Silver
Cinnamon Silver
In golden these markings become more less pronounced over time, but remain visible.
The Coat Types: T, Ta, Tabbies
Silver Ticked
Silver Shaded
Silver Spotted
Silver Mackerel
In silver these markings become more like ghost, uniform markings over time.
Our Golden and Silver
Coat Colours Explained
We are cat lover extraordinaire, we specialise in Breeding British Shorthair & British Longhair cats. The images above are all of our cats & kittens.
We breed the delightful shimmer of Shaded, Chinchilla Tipping & Ticked kittens in a beautiful range of specialised colours. We are the only breeders in the UK that offer the Shaded Tipped, Shell & Pointed in the full range of colours.
In the Silver & Golden Cats, the 'type' is characterised by colour at the tips of the hair. There are three types which include chinchilla, shaded and smoke, each recognised by the extent of the shading on individual hairs. What distinguishes these coats is that through breeding the colour of the coat has moved up to the tip of the fur and either the Gold fills the shaft of hair or no colour - leaving the White/Silver.
In the Pointed cats, they appear to have white coats (they are not genetically white cats) and they have blue eyes. Through breeding, we have removed the colour-point to near-invisible in the Silver and in the Golden, the only thing that is visible is a faint tone on their nose, paw pads, ears and tail. This makes them incredibly unique.
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: Ticked (Ta), Spotted (T) coat markings, which is the Tabby banding of colours on a cat’s fur.
This website has more information on striped, spotted and ticked cats.