Sacred Birman Standard

Category II	SBI	Sacred Birman Standard
General	Size	medium in size
Head	Shape	strong bone
	Forehead	slightly rounded
	Cheeks	full, somewhat rounded
	Nose	of medium length without stop, but with a slight indentation
	Chin	firm
Ears	Shape	rather small with rounded tips
	Placement	set slightly tipped, not too upright on the skull with good width between
Eyes	Shape	not quite round, slightly oval
	Colour	deep blue
Body	Structure	slightly long body. Males must be more massive than females
Legs		short and strong
	Paws	rounded
	Gloves	the special feature of the Sacred Birman is the white feet, called "gloves", on both the front and hind feet these gloves must be absolutely pure white they should stop at the articulation or at the transition of toes to metacarpals, over which they should not extend slightly longer white gloves on the hind feet can be tolerated on the back of the hind feet the white gloves end in points the ideal "gauntlets" end in inverted "V's" and extend 1/2 to 3/4 of the way up the hock lower or higher gauntlets are acceptable but should not go beyond the hock it is important that the gloves are equally long and show a symmetry of white, on either the two front or two hind feet, or even better, on all four feet.
Tail		of medium length, forming a plume
Coat	Structure	long to semi-long, according to the actual parts of the body: short on the face, gradually growing longer on the cheeks to a full frill, long on the back and the flanks silky texture little undercoat
	Colour	shows all characteristics known from the colourpointed cats, but all four feet are white (gloves) the points include the face, ears, legs, tail and genitals the points shall be even and in good contrast to the body colour the body colour and colour of the belly is a very pale eggshell; the back is golden beige in all varieties only in adult cats the colour of the points and the body colour are fully developed
Remarks		the Sacred Birman shows a special morphology, which is unique for the breed
Faults	Coat	pure white or coloured patches on the chest or the belly
Faults precluding the certificate	Nose	incompletely pigmented nose leather
	Legs	creeping up of the white on the sides or the reverse sides of the gloves of front and/or hind feet (known as "runners") absence of "gauntlets" on the hind feet
	Coat	white patching in the coloured areas or the reverse a white patch on the genitals

Sacred Birman Standard scale of points

Scale of Points		Points
Total		100
Head	general shape, cheeks, nose, jaws and teeth, forehead, chin placement and shape of the ears shape and colour of the eyes	20
Body	shape, size, bone structure legs and shape of paws	20
Tail	length and shape	10
Coat	body colour and points	15
	quality and texture, length	10
Gloves	on the front feet	5
	on the hind feet	5
	gauntlets	5
	uniformity and symmetry of gauntlets and gloves	5
Condition		5

Sacred Birman Standard colour varieties

Recognized Colour Varieties
Colour	EMS Code	*Remarks
Seal/Blue/Chocolate/Lilac/Red/Cream pointed	SBI n/a/b/c/d/e	A
Seal/Blue/Chocolate/Lilac tortie	SBI f/g/h/j	A
Seal/Blue/Chocolate/Lilac/Red/Cream tabby	SBI n/a/b/c/d/e 21	A
Seal/Blue/Chocolate/Lilac tortie tabby pointed	SBI f/g/h/j 21	A

Sacred Birman Standard sremarks

*Remarks
Body colour	A	very pale eggshell with a slight shade of the point colour the back is golden beige in all colour varieties