Chocolate and lilac Abyssinians are now accepted for championship

There are several breeders of the chocolates and lilacs, and most of them come from a Burmese in the 1970’s in the UK. The cross was done because Feline Leukemia was a big problem all over the world at that time. Nobody wanted to send their cats out for breeding to a stud that might kill their prized queen. So a breeder who had Burmese and Abyssinians bred two different breeds together to keep from inbreeding too much, when ordinarily she would have kept them separate.
Candy, in the photos above, is RW QGC Alexy Braeside Candytuft of Aksum, named after the first chocolate to be produced, Braeside Candytuft.
-Susan Graham
Aksum Abyssinians
Atlanta, GA USA