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Our collection of Asian cat images features champions and best of breed. Whether you are a specialist looking for stock images of breed examples, a designer looking for a striking picture, or you're simply an Asian cat fan, we're confident we'll have the image you're looking for.

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Asian group overview

The Asians are a group of cats, made up out of Burmese shaped cats in various colours and patterns produced originally from a cross between Chinchilla and Burmese. The shaded and tipped Asians are known as Burmillas, the self blacks as Bombays and the longhaired Asians as Tiffanies. Burmillas, Smokes and Tabbies have Championship status, selfs and torties have Provisional status and Tiffanies have Preliminary status.

Lively and friendly, very much like a Burmese in temperament.
Shorthaired Asians need minimal grooming, Tiffanies only slightly more.

Biological data

Size
Medium.
Build
Medium, somewhat cobby.
Hair quality
Short, fine and close-lying in Asian shorthairs, silky and semi-long in the Tiffanie.
Colours
Black
Blue
Chocolate
Lilac
Caramel
Red
Cream
Apricot
Five tortie colours
All thirteen colours with the Burmese colour restriction
Eye colours
Yellow to green.
Patterns
Self (excluding Burmese colour restriction), smoke, spotted, shaded/tipped and the tabby patterns: classic, mackerel, ticked and silver tabby. In the Tiffanie the Burmese colour restriction self are also accepted.

Asian cat links we are happy to endorse

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Asian – Breed standard

The below links are external
GCCF

Asian cat references and further reading

UK
Asian Group Cat Society
Bombay and Asian Self Breed Club
 

Please get in touch

If you are an animal photographer, an expert on Asian cats or a breeder, we would love to hear from you. We strive to have all the latest, most helpful and accurate information on our website, but nobody is perfect, so we do ask for your feedback if we can improve our website.

Please get in touch 
Associations and Specialists – We are happy to link to your Asian cat association or specialist area, all we ask is for you to return the favour.
Photographers – Please visit our 'join us' page to learn about working with us.
Experts – Spotted some detail that isn't right? Please email us your thoughts.
Breeders – We work with many great cat photographers such as Helmi Flick, Alan Robinson and Tetsu Yamazaki and we'd love to build our contact list of leading breeders. Who knows when you might get a call. Please email us your details.

Asian cat breeds

Below are some examples of the various breeds in the Asian cat group, we've listed the main heading according to the GCCF. Colours can vary according to lighting, whether it was taken indoors or outdoors and even the quality of the cat. So sadly not an exact science.

Bombay – 72

AP-10X7TV - Bombay cat
Photo © Animal Photography, Alan Robinson

Colour description 
Black - 72 (GCCF)

Burmilla – 72 43b

AP-1LOV8Y - Chocolate Shaded Burmilla cat.
Photo © Animal Photography, Alan Robinson

Colour description 
Chocolate Shaded - 43b (GCCF)

Tiffanie – 68

AP-0R85IK - Blue Silver Tiffanie
Photo © Animal Photography, Alan Robinson

Colour description 
Blue - 23c (GCCF)

Black Asian Spotted Tabby – 72 38

AP-16FBUS - Black Asian Spotted Cat
Photo © Animal Photography, Alan Robinson

Colour description 
Black Asian Spotted Tabby -  72 38 (GCCF)

Asian cat picture ideas

Featured image

AP-U2OFNR - Asian Tiffanie cat
Photo © Animal Photography, Alan Robinson

Asian Tiffanie kittens

AP-RQQJHZ - Four Tiffanie kittens
Photo © Animal Photography, Alan Robinson