Our Story
Our Burmese cats and kittens are cherished members our family as they prepare to join yours. It has been such an honor to be part of so many people’s stories that get our cats.
But how did we get here? We were busy enjoying our life and careers in Washington D.C, when we decided we were ready to expand our family and felt like the next step was to adopt kittens.
After hours and hours of research, and debating on the best way to acquire our new companions, we found Dr. Douglas Schar of Indian Spring Cats, who has spent many years reinvigorating Burmese cats in America.
At Indian Spring Cats, Dr. Schar utilizes equal parts science (through genetic and color diversity and health) and art (pairing mates based on factors such as personality and pushiness) to cultivate these special companions.
Soon enough we adopted the two most amazing Burmese kittens. They were like dogs, following us everywhere. Never had we been around such beautiful and special creatures!
Dr. Schar generously agreed to allow us to become one of his nation-wide breeding satellites by providing us kittens and spending many hours mentoring and teaching us his one-of-a-kind best practices. With that, the privilege and journey of launching Companion Cats and Kittens began.
History and Origin
When I first started researching the Burmese breed, I must admit I was hopeful yet skeptical that such a pushy cat existed.
On my first encounter to the breeder’s farm to visit the cats, I was shocked how consistent the pushy and sweet personality was across the several cats I met!
Over and over they would come up to me, a complete stranger, DEMANDING pets and rolling on their backs at my feet. After seeing the consistency in the personality and good health, I knew I had found something very special.
Burmese cats are an ancient breed that date back several centuries in Thailand. We are incredibly grateful to the International Maew Boran Association (TIMBA) for the preservation of Burmese cats as well as the other Thai cats very similar to Burmese cats. Our cats would not have been possible without TIMBA. They have been a vital partner to breeders around the world seeking to breed genetically diverse Burmese cats. To learn more about Burmese cat genetics, Dr. Schar explains it here. We are in the process of completing our registration papers with TIMBA.
There are several organizations around the world that register cats and have specific rules around the aesthetics and ancestry of the cat. For example, Burmese cats that are registered with organizations based in America are said to have descended from Wong Mau, a Burmese cat brought to the U.S. in the 1930s bred to Tai Mau, a seal point Siamese cat. Taking our cues from the model followed in the 1930s, we have chosen to select our parent cats from cats with parentage recently imported from Thailand. This has given us more options in genetic diversity and color diversity.
