Burmilla
- Character: Good at sociability, love to act like a baby with the owner
- Type: Medium cat
- Production Place: United Kingdom
- Weight: 3-5 kg
- Life Span: 10-12 years
- Behoof: Watching cat companion cat
This breed of cat was born in the UK in 1981 and was successfully exhibited two years later, immediately attracting widespread attention after the exhibition. In fact, the birth of the Pomera cat originated from a beautiful union - a lavender Burmese cat and a silver Chinchilla longhair cat "born out of wedlock", and the child born was the original Pomera cat.
The original Pomera was bred in England by Baroness Miranda von Kirchberg, and in order to give the Pomera a better quality, Charles and Tricia Clark combined another beautifully spotted cat with the original Pomera, which eventually evolved into the current Pomera cat. The ancestors of the Pomera cats are the Chinchilla and Burmese cats, so they have the advantages of both, such as they have both the beauty of the Chinchilla and the friendliness of the Burmese, so many people fall in love with the Pomera cats after they have been in contact with them for a while.
Looking around, you may find that no one is breeding this cat, this is because although the Pomera cat is noticed by many cat lovers abroad, it has not yet formed a popular open climate in China, so if you are interested in this cat, then you will definitely need to spend some effort to see a Pomera cat in person. The Pomera cat is a crossbreed, they are the offspring of a cross between a Chinchilla and a Burmese cat, there are long-haired and short-haired ones. Because they are a crossbreed, the Pomera cats have inherited some of the characteristics of their ancestors, but through artificial breeding, they have also developed some of their own characteristics over such a long period of time - they are elegant in form, gentle in character and beautifully spotted, and although they were only born in 1981, more than ten years later they were on the competition championship podium. You may not even know what breed of cat they are even if they are standing in front of you, but their elegant temperament and friendly personality will certainly not cause you to resent them. In the absence of their owners, they show a high degree of independence, yet once their owners appear, they may pamper their owners like a kitten, and this personality will not change even when they are adults.
They are sociable, for example, they know how to play with their owners, and when their owners are happy, they will ask for a little more petting or snacks; while when their owners are angry and in a bad mood, they will let their owners be quiet in their own space for a while, and then come back to accompany them after a while. If the owner has enough time, it is best to interact with the Pomera cat every day, and if the owner is busy with work, prepare toys for them beforehand.
Many cats are unable to live peacefully with children or other animals, but the Pomera cat does an excellent job in this regard. Therefore, if there are children or other animals at home, the owner does not have to worry that they will actively hurt the children or fight endlessly with other animals.
They do not stay quietly in one place as long as Persian cats, they like to be played with by their owners, and if they are alone, they will find their own fun, in short, they will not leave themselves idle for too long. As long as they have certain skills, it is not particularly difficult to train a Pomera cat because of its easy-going, active and intelligent nature. Before training a Pomera cat, owners need to be prepared for the fact that training a cat cannot be done overnight, sometimes the cat may not understand your instructions well, sometimes the cat may not want to do your instructions at all, when encountering these difficulties, owners need to guide patiently, do not lose patience and lose your temper with the cat, otherwise the cat will only be more and more reluctant to accept your training, and They will also gradually develop a sense of fear of you.
Owners need to understand the temperament of their cats and know what they like and what they hate in order to train better. Generally speaking, the best time to train your cat is before meals. You can use food as a stimulus to make your cat complete the instructions you give, and even if your cat is reluctant, they will still beg for food because they want to get it. However, it is not advisable to use food to train your cat for too long before meals, usually 15 minutes is the maximum. Too much time may cause the cat to lose interest, and in addition it is not good for the cat's body to be trained for too long in a hungry state.
In addition to the training that can be given to the cat before the main meal, the owner can also insert some training in the usual play, for example, when doing games they can let them know that some places are not allowed, otherwise they will be bounced nose or attacked by the water gun, etc. Some owners also use snacks to train their cats in the process of playing with them. Under the stimulation of snacks, cats can indeed complete a lot of skill training, but owners should not oversupply snacks, otherwise it will cause obesity and various secondary diseases in cats, but also easily lead to the cat's appetite is getting bigger and bigger, and in the future may not be able to interest them in training even if they are given snacks.
In the process of training, there may be slackness or loading not to hear the owner's command, these are the feedback of their inner thoughts, the owner does not have to force too much, can be left for the next training. And if the cat has learned a skill, the owner also needs to repeat the consolidation training, otherwise some cats will forget what they have learned before. In fact, cats have a lot of potential, and many times owners do not develop it well, so in the process of daily care, owners can continue to explore the potential of their cats to complete more training.