Bombay coat colors and patterns
Exactly one: black to the roots, in near-identical wording at four registries, with black nose leather, black paw pads and copper-preferred eyes. CCA-AFC grades even a rust tinge as a fault. The general mechanism is a self (solid) black coat at full color, not the sepia allele the Burmese parent carries. No Bombay-specific genetic study exists, and we say so.
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The color palette
Black (patent leather)
The Bombay in color
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What the standard says
Exactly one: black to the roots, in near-identical wording at four registries, with black nose leather, black paw pads and copper-preferred eyes. CCA-AFC grades even a rust tinge as a fault. The general mechanism is a self (solid) black coat at full color, not the sepia allele the Burmese parent carries. No Bombay-specific genetic study exists, and we say so.
