Tonkinés

  These are cats similar to Wong Mau, the female from which descends the Burmen, and to some of its kittens; they are between the Birmano type and the Siamese and are product of crosses it of these races, although now they mate only with Tonkineses legitimate.

Like the Burman, they are surprising heavy for his appearance that is of the type of the medium foreigner.

These cats have color corporal intense and uniforms, which something clearer in the inferior parts tends almost imperceptible mind towards a shade, with darker ends and a mask that is based smoothly with the color of the body, instead of contrasting shrewdly like in the Siamese.

The colors of the American Tonkinés have their own names: mink natural, that is medium coffee; mink blue, that is gray bluish with darker points blue slate; and mink platinum, gray pale silver-plated gray with darker points frost.

It is a sociable cat, and its coat is easy to maintain in good conditions, ?perhaps not so talkative? as the Siamese, although generally it is interested and peculiar reason why it happens around to his.

Body: Of medium length, with a chest strong and cleared and straight back; thin enough legs with fine made oval claws.

Head: It is a modified wedge, longer than wide than it is narrowed towards the snout; ears medium, very separated to each other, of ample base, higher than wide and inclined forwards, with oval ends.

Eyes: Of medium size and more opened than the Eastern ones; of green color to the blue one sure but a bluish one is preferred green.

Coat: Short and patch to the body, fine, smooth, silky and shining a hair.

Colors: Coffee, blue, chocolate, lila, reddish, cream; torties coffee, blue, chocolate and lila, and atigrados; mink natural, mink champaña, mink blue and mink platinum.

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