British Shorthair - Varieties

Varieties

British Shorthairs come in many colours and patterns. For many years, the more popular blue variant was common enough to have a breed name of its own: the "British Blue". It remains one of the most popular colours, though there is now a large variety of other colour and pattern variants accepted by most feline governing bodies and associations. These include the colours black, blue, white, red, cream, chocolate, lilac, cinnamon and fawn.

British Shorthairs can be bred in "self" or "solid", which are all one colour, as well as the colourpoint, tabby, shaded and bicolour patterns. All colours and patterns also come in the tortoiseshell pattern, which is a combination of red and cream with other colours.

• A British Shorthair with the classic tabby markings.

• Male cream kittens and a female blue tortoiseshell and white kitten. These colours are not new but not as widely bred as blue.

• Traditional blue shown in the newer bicolour pattern. This cat (named Cyclard Jack Flash) is being judged at a cat show while waiting for his box.

• A fawn and white bicolour British Shorthair. Fawn and cinnamon are the newest of British Shorthair colours.

• A dilute Calico cat.

• 2 months old British Shorthair