My York Chocolate Cat

Hi,

Interested in a york chocolate and looking for a U.S. Breeder.

How do I find you?

We still breed York Chocolate here on the east coast of the US. Just ship out a girl (chocolate) to Itialy.

I have a York Chocolate male from Faires Cattery, which unfortunately is not active any more. I'm also looking for a female to continue the breed in Italy and i would appreciate to get suggestions about it.

I found this site after searching for days about chocolate coloured cats. This past Thanksgiving a neighbour of my aunt gave my husband and I an amazing little girl kitten.

We named her Luna, and we thought in the darkness that she was black and fluffy. In the light at home it turned out she was colourpoint: milk and dark chocolate!

Mind you, this was in upstate NY (Albany area.)

Luna was less than six months at the time. Her mother was called a "siamese" by the lady who gave her to us, and the father "Moonbeam" was a black longhair.

Now her fur is short in some areas and long in others. I think it is a new coat growing in? Her tail is of very long fur but sparse still. Each day it is all filling out more, I think.
She is still pointed, but it is harder to tell. The once reddish-milk chocolate areas are brown. Her head, tail, and legs are black.

We have not planned to spay her because she is indoors, our other two boys are neutered, and I guess I had thoughts of pretty little brown kittens later on.

Noting that her colour was so odd I spent days googling. I only just heard of the York Chocolate tonight. This seems so appropriate since they are descended from moggies in NY too.
I am so interested in finding more information and owners. Maybe my Luna could have brown kittens one day?! There were MANY other brothers and sisters when we chose her. The lady only grabbed a few kittens in the barn to show us. I wonder how many others were so uniquely coloured?

She is a very sweet little doll. It is funny how much she likes to rub against or pile on top of the other cats. When they are stand-off-ish she seems so confused! Her purr is So Loud! She became more vocal recently, but sounds like and odd bird... much like out late Siamese. Her eyes reflect red rather than green. She is very lean right now and feels a lot like a muscular Siamese, but she is a gawky kitten yet.

I'd really love to hear from others! If you are curious about Luna I'd love to share a photo or something 🙂

Hi Joyce,

I have been maintaining a few breeding York Chocolate cats here in California from some of the original bloodlines. I too have found it impossible to find any more in this country??

I do not know if this would be too far for you to import a cat, but I really would like to share my cats in the hopes of further promoting the York Chocolate breed.

Hope this helps,

Brian Cash
Cashb1@gmail.com

Hi Joyce. He is a very nice boy - I really hope you find a suitable spouse for him. I don't know the breed, but judging from pictures the cat looks balanced - and I like that. In my opinion some other new breeds have been looking too much for the extreme. Good luck to you.

Thanks Joyce for sharing. You confirm what I thought that this breed is very rare indeed. Your boy is a very rare cat and he is a very handsome cat too. Great whiskers, coat colour and eyes.

PS: I agree with Finn (above) in that some breeds are too extreme and your boy is very balanced in proportions - normal looking it other words.