Talk:Birman

message: Excellent photo, and superb specimen! But it'd be best to have a full-body photo. 00:39, 31 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: A Birman as a pet, humm? Well, yes, but I am a Birman owner, so let me clue you in on some input. They are loyal, happy, funny, and playful, but mine LOVES to get attention, and anytime he wants attention, he MEOWS!!! They are usually white, and I love mine! (Even though he does meow!) And also, out of all the pictures I have of him, they're all pretty dark, and he's not very photogenic.
I too am a Birman owner, infact I'm on my 2nd Birman as the first one was such a wonderful cat, I've owned cats all my life including Persians and moggies, I also have a Seal Point Ragdoll, ok the Birman is very different from most cats, they are the most affectionate cat and will follow you around the house for attention or food, they are also house cats, my 2nd Birman does what is called the Birman swish (waves its tail back and forth), most cats do this when very angry but he does it all the time, the 1st Birman never did this at all so it's not a common trait. Birmans are also fairly vocal cats, 1st one meowed the 2nd one makes unusual puuurrrp noises, generally you can pickup a Birman and hold it like a baby, rub it's belly, pull its tail (lightly of course) and it won't care at all, their personality is very laid back and they make excellent pets even with small children, so much so that I would only ever get a Birman from now until the day I die.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.158.206.57 (talk) 21:25, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birman Pets 

message: needs some work on style and tone to bring up to encyclopedic standards  Goldfinger820 00:39, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: tone

message: The introduction seems to be pretty much a straight copy of this page from the CFA web site:
http://www.cfainc.org/breeds/profiles/birman.html
Perhaps the OP poster could clarify?  If the same person wrote both, then perhaps this is OK...
Jjcarder (talk) 10:09, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: source copyright

message: I think this page is a little excessive with pictures. Who else does?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.80.205.55 (talk) 14:12, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too many pictures? 

message: It has been requested that an assessment be given for this article at Wikiproject Cats. I have rated this article a Start-class. Here are the issues that need to be addressed:
*There are absolutely no references in this article. There needs to be references per the verifiability policy of Wikipedia. Editors need to locate reliable sources and incorporate them into the article. With the length of this article, there is a lot of searching to do.
*There are four tags that have yet to be dealt with. You need to take care of what these tags are requesting.
*The majority of the pictures need to go! Please remember that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a photo album. There are far too many galleries within the article. Choose a few good quality images and place them within the article. See WP:IMAGE for details and tutorials. In addition, some of the pictures which are not part of a gallery need to be reformatted (one is too large and thus drowns out the text) and either defaulted to the right or placed after the second paragraph of the section.
Once these issues have been addressed, then request another assessment and/or leave me a message on my talk page and I will take another look. You can also leave me a message if you have any questions. The makings for a good-quality article are here...it just needs to be tightened up. Happy editing! – Ms. Sarita Confer 12:05, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment

message: I was just wondering if in the guide (if there isn't something there already) it should say that tabby Birmans have the tail and coat of regular birmans but the paws and head that looks like the American Shorthair or Brittish Shorthair. I have this book called The Cat Breed Handbook and it has photos of them in there and they look really odd. Melon247 (talk) 10:33, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tabby Birmans 

message: The first sentence in the Origin section reads "The Birman cat is said to have originated in Burma, where it was considered a sacred companion cat of the Kittah priests."
Kittah priests? If you search for Kittah here, it redirects you to the LOLCat page. Nothing about Kittah priests on Google, either. Xavius, the Satyr Lord (talk) 11:32, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a fair amount of hits if you google that actually.  I was all ready to delete these references but it seems it is just an amusing co-incidence Toxicbreakfast (talk) 23:57, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Suspected LOLCat Infiltration

message: ""All Birmans are born white".  Well my family used to breed them when I was a child and almost all of the kittens were white but there was definitely one black one.  Obviously as this is WP:OR it can't go in but maybe someone has the reason and the sources. Toxicbreakfast (talk) 00:04, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Kittens

message: Can someone add info about the weight, length, height of birman? Gatorgirl7563 (talk) 20:35, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Size

message: The legend has no citation, and is certainly not true, more likely the product of some Western fantasizing about the history of the cat. The bit about "Kittah" priests is unfortunate enough, but this entire section is too much. First of all, the Khmer people are from Cambodia, not Burma, although their empire once controlled portions of Burma. Secondly, the Khmer were Hindu, generally Vaisnites, and there was no goddess such as the one mentioned. The Siamese did not migrate to SE Asia until after Burma was out of Khmer hands, so the story is historically impossible for that reason alone. Lastly, the names in the legend are all Chinese, not Burmese and certainly not Khmer. In fact, other than "Khmer" (which means Cambodian) none of the proper names here can be substantiated anywhere else on Wikipeida (Mount Lugh? Phoums? Mun-Ha?). I'm going to put a citation tag here. It needs citations to scholarly sources -- i.e. from sources on Southeast Asian history and religion, not a website about cats. It's fine to put this as a made up "story" as long as there is a citation for the background and its clear that it's not real history.113.22.66.88 (talk) 15:45, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Legend" 

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