BIRMAN CATS FOR SALE

The Birman's more recent past is almost as obscure as its fabled beginnings. There is no doubt that the breed first appeared in France around 1920. According to one legend, a pair of Birman cats were smuggled from Burma to France sometime around 1919. The female cat, Sita, made it through the difficult journey and was joyfully pregnant, but the male cat did not.

A perhaps distinct version claims that while American millionaire Mr. Vanderbilt was traveling in the Far East, two cats, a male and a female (whose name was Sita), were abducted and delivered to Vanderbilt by a disloyal servant of the temple of Lao-Tsun. The duo was reportedly thereafter handed to a woman by the name of Mme Thadde Hadisch.The male (again, according to this version) perished on the boat, but the expectant female gave birth to a litter of kittens in the French town of Nice in 1920. One of the daughters was magnificent, and she was given the name Poupee. A Laotian Lynx and Poupee were bred.

This was corroborated by top Birman breeder Baudoin-Crevoisier, who wrote in a 1933 article, "Poupee could not have been mated by a male of that breed, but was bred to a Laotian Lynx cat belonging to a doctor in Nice. With extremely blue eyes that resemble Siamese cats, this species of cat gave birth to young Birman cats for sale and Laotian mongrels. Manou de Madalpour, whose markings are excellent as a result of repeated breeding She resembles Poupee, her mother. Afterward, Baudion wrote in 1935,This female was then bred to a male Siamese, who at that time was given the name "Laotian Cat" due to the circumstances. Marcel Reney wrote to M. Prat, a physician in Nice, in 1933 in an effort to solve this mystery. We have definitely had a number of Siamese cats, but we are unaware of their ancestry, he replied. Regarding Mme Hadisch from Vienna, I know nothing.