 The
Burmilla is a breed of domestic cat which originated in the United
Kingdom in 1981. It is a cross between the Chinchilla Persian and
Burmese breeds.
Standards were produced in 1984 and the breed gained championship
status in the United Kingdom in the 1990s.
The Burmilla can have a variety of colours: black, blue, champagne,
chocolate, cream, lilac, platinum and red. They can also be
tortoiseshell, with colours including black, blue, brown, chocolate
and lilac.
The Burmilla was acually created accidentally in the United Kingdom,
two cats, one Chinchilla Persian and one Burmese, were each awaiting
a partner of the same breed in different rooms. Accidentally one
night the cleaner left the door open and the rest is history. The
result was so adorable that a new breed was born.
The United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (usually shortened to
the United Kingdom or the UK) is a country [1] [2] [3] and sovereign
state[4] occupying most of the British Isles off the northwest coast
of Europe. Its territory and population are primarily situated on
the island of Great Britain, but it also shares a land border with
the Republic of Ireland on the island of Ireland. The United Kingdom
is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and its ancillary
bodies of water- the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea,
and the Irish Sea.
The United Kingdom is a political union made up of four constituent
countries, commonly termed the home nations: England, Scotland,
Wales, and Northern Ireland. It also has several overseas
territories, including Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands, while the
Crown has a relationship with the dependencies of the Isle of Man
and the Channel Islands. A constitutional monarchy, the United
Kingdom has close relationships with fifteen other Commonwealth
Realms that share the same monarch – Queen Elizabeth II – as head of
state.
A member of the G8, the United Kingdom has a highly industrialised
economy and the sixth-largest gross domestic product (PPP) in the
world [5]. It is the third most populous state in the European Union
[6] and is a founding member of the NATO and the UN where it holds a
permanent seat on the Security Council. The UK is also one of the
world's major nuclear powers. [7] Having previously been the hub of
the world's most geographically expansive empire to date, it retains
an important and influential role in international politics, helped
by the dominance of the English language in global affairs and its
close ties with the United States of America. [8]
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