Breed Comparisons - British Shorthair

British Shorthair

Breed Name	British Shorthair	British Shorthair	British Shorthair	British Shorthair	British Shorthair	British Shorthair	British Shorthair	British Shorthair	British Shorthair
Recognition status	full	full	full	full	full except for new patterns	full	full	full	full
Breed code	BRI	BRI		BRI		BRI	BRI	BS
Allowable outcrosses	none	none	none	none	Outcrosses with other breeds allowed only in approved breeding pro-grammes as required.	none	none	Only within Breed group – no unknowns.	British Longhair
Recognised colours	all solid colours: tortoiseshell and tortie tabby in those colours; classic, spotted, mackeral and ticked tabby in all colours (silver tabbies and tortie tabbies with either green or orange eyes) tipped and shaded (including pewter) in all solid or tortie colours golden smoke in all colours pointed in all colours (including caramel and apricot) including bi-colour and van, smoke silver tabby point bi-colour and van in all colours and patterns.	solid: black white (blue-eyed, odd-eyed, orange-eyed) blue chocolate lilac cinnamon fawn red cream caramel tortoiseshell: all colour above other than white, blue and lilac recognized in patched and intermingled silver: smoke and tipped, all colours above tabbies: classic/blotched, mackerel and spotted, all colours above other than white	solid colours: black blue cream red blue-eyed white gold-eyed white odd-eyed white tabby(spotted, classic, mackerel): blue tabby brown tabby cream tabby red tabby silver tabby blue patched tabby brown patched tabby silver patched tabby parti-colour bi-colour: blue-cream tortoiseshell calico van calico dilute calico van dilute calico solid colour and white van solid colour and white tabby and white Van tabby and white Patched tabby and white other British Shorthair colours: smoke shaded shaded golden and any other colour or pattern with the exception of those showing evidence of hybridization resulting in the colours chocolate, lavender, the Himalayan pattern, or these combinations with white	white solid: black blue chocolate lilac red cream tortie: black blue chocolate lilac silver: smoke shaded and tipped in all above colours golden shaded and shell tabbies: all above colours in blotched, mackerel and spotted including silver and golden tabby bi-colours: all above colours including equivalent varieties of smoke, tabby and silver tabby colourpoint: in all above colours including tabby point	colours: white black blue chocolate lilac cinnamon fawn red cream patterns: self tortoiseshell tabby (classic and mackerel) silver tabby (classic and mackerel) spotted tabby silver ticked tabby bi-colour, self and white tortie and white van pattern colourpoint and white smoke tipped black silver golden (non-silver) colourpoint	self tortoiseshell tabby pattern bi-colour harlequin colourpoint smoke tipped shaded silver varieties apply	blue-eyed white copper-eyed white odd-eyed white black blue chocolate lilac red cream black tortoiseshell blue tortoiseshell chocolate tortoiseshell lilac tortoiseshell silver tipped all cameos, including tortoiseshell cameos all smokes, including tortoiseshell smokes brown tabby brown tortoiseshell tabby blue tabby blue tortoiseshell tabby chocolate tabby chocolate tortoiseshell tabby lilac tabby lilac tortoiseshell tabby red tabby cream tabby all cameo tabbies silver tabbies, including silver tortoiseshell tabbies seal, blue, lilac, chocolate, red, and cream points and tabby points seal, blue lilac, chocolate tortoiseshell pointed black, blue, chocolate, lilac, red, cream, black tortoiseshell, blue tortoiseshell, chocolate tortoiseshell, lilac tortoiseshell bi-colours, harlequins and vans	traditional and pointed, all colours	all polours pointed without white
Breeding restrictions		Cats displaying the white patching gene (S) not to be mated with those of Himalayan (cscs) appearance, or cats with at least one known Himalayan pattern ancestor. If by chance, patched Himalayan pattern kittens are produced they may not be registered, bred from or exhibited, even as part of a litter. Longhaired progeny may not be bred from or be exhibited even as part of a litter. Cats displaying the white patching gene (S) are not to be mated with chinchillas/shaded silvers or the cameo range	No chocolate, lavender, the Himalayan pattern, or these combinations with white. No longhair	No other coat length than shorthair is recognized. Longhair cats must be registered as XLH * <BRI>. No progeny of a Scottish Fold with straight ears (SFL non * 71 / SFS non * 71) may be registered as a BRI.	Pattern restrictions to maintain integrity of gene pool	none	none	none	none
Special notes	Many Australian BRI are blood group B.	none	none	.none	none	Longhair gene is found in the breed and so testing for longhair mutation recommended as longhair kittens can result if one cat carries one copy of a longhair mutation, but does depend on the genotype of the mate.		none	none