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MANDALAY INFORMATION

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The Mandalay breed was developed here in New Zealand.  As with many pedigree breeds throughout the  world it originated from an accidental mating.  In this case it was with a Burmese to a local tom cat (a black domestic shorthair). This happened in the 1980's.

The resulting kittens were stunning jet black with amber eyes, and certain breeders were so taken with  these cats that breeding programs were started to reproduce these beautiful  black cats.  Since then many generations have come and the Mandalay breed was recognised by the New Zealand  Cat Fancy Inc.  This is where most of the Mandalays used in breeding  programs today have come from, however there was also another line where a  ginger tom was the sire of the first generation.

In the UK similar programs came about involving Burmese, and the resulting breeds were called Bombays for  black cats and Asians for all of the other colours.  These are different again from the Bombays of the USA, where American Burmese were originally bred with American Shorthairs.

Under the New Zealand Cat  Fancy Inc rules, the Mandalay breed is fully intermatable with the Burmese  breed, and you can get Burmese and Mandalay in the same litter.  They are registered as Mandalay or Burmese depending on their what their colour classifies them as.

The difference between Mandalay and Burmese is basically in their coat and eye colour, they are the same in every other way.  Burmese have a gene which changes their  coat colour - this is known as the Burmese Gene (or "cbcb"), Mandalays do not have this gene (and are "CC").  A Seal Burmese is genetically black, however because of the presence of cbcb  gene rather than the CC gene, the colour is changed to the Seal (dark brown)  colour.

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