Breed history
The Burmilla is a reasonably recent breed (the early 1980s), resulting from an accidental cross made in Great Britain between a Persian chinchilla and a lilac Burmese. The owner of these two cats, Baroness Miranda Von Kirchberg, then came across four kittens. Subsequently, she decided to develop this breed of cats, giving it the name of the contraction between Burmese and Chinchilla.
The breed standard was recognized in 1984 before the International Feline Federation adopted it in 1994. Today, the breed is still little known in France and the United States.
