Burmese

Who a Burmese suits

For a household that is genuinely occupied during the day. It follows, rides shoulders and joins in with everything, and it suffers alone in a way that is not being dramatised. Anyone out of the house ten hours a day should take two, or choose differently.

How to build the bond: Take them along — a Burmese bonds by participating in your entire day. That sits on top of how the species works generally: Trust is earned in stillness: slow blinks, shared silence, respect for territory. The cat closes the distance — your job is to hold the door open.

The Burmese against the other nineteen

Lined up stillest to liveliest, the Burmese is 13th of the twenty cat breeds here, one of 5 in the lively band — the energy arrives whether or not it was planned for, so the question is never whether it gets spent but on what.

Ordered by how near each one sits to the Burmese on the energy axis, then by the notes they have in common. Every cat breed reads this table from its own position, so no two of the twenty are ordered alike.

The birth years a Burmese sits easiest with

This half of the reading is the species rather than the breed — every cat meets a given birth year the same way. These are the communities that sit easiest with one:

• Lion Spirit Guardian—1950,1962,1974,1986and later
• Cat Spirit Guardian—1951,1963,1975,1987and later
• Snake Spirit Guardian—1953,1965,1977,1989and later
• Horse Spirit Guardian—1954,1966,1978,1990and later

A birth year outside that list is not a warning — it is the half of the reading this page cannot settle on its own. Seat the pair on the board and it reads the rest. What the cat is like as a companion applies to the Burmese as much as to the other nineteen.

A pairing that involves an animal returns a word rather than a percentage. The board's deepest layer reads two inner selves against each other and an animal cannot hold one, so the result is described rather than scored — what is read here is the keeper's birth year against the species, and the breed decides everything about living with it day to day. An animal does get a chart of its own once its birth hour is known, one rung further up.

Frequently asked

What is a Burmese like to live with?

A dog in silk — a Burmese follows its person room to room, rides shoulders, converses in a soft rasp, and genuinely suffers when left alone. On the energy axis this catalogue uses, the Burmese reads as lively — 13th of the twenty cat breeds here when they are lined up stillest to liveliest.

Who is a Burmese a good match for?

For a household that is genuinely occupied during the day. It follows, rides shoulders and joins in with everything, and it suffers alone in a way that is not being dramatised. Anyone out of the house ten hours a day should take two, or choose differently.

How do you bond with a Burmese?

Take them along — a Burmese bonds by participating in your entire day. That sits on top of how the species works generally: Trust is earned in stillness: slow blinks, shared silence, respect for territory. The cat closes the distance — your job is to hold the door open. The thing that most reliably undoes it — Grabbing the affection you were about to be given sets the clock back weeks — forced holds teach a cat to keep an exit in view.

Which cat breeds are most like a Burmese?

Munchkin, Turkish Angora, Devon Rex — nearest first, measured on energy band and shared traits. At the other end of the same twenty sits the British Shorthair, two bands apart. Every one of the nineteen is ranked against the Burmese further up this page.