Cats
Over several generations and through mating
her to her own sons, three varieties of offspring arose: those with a Siamese pattern, those
which were dark brown all over (Burmese) and those with a dark brown body but identifiable
darkening at the points much like Wong Mau herself. Wong Mau is considered to be the
founding mother of the Burmese breed but was herself a Tonkinese and breeders chose to
develop her Burmese offspring.
In the early 1940s, a Hawaiian breeder, Lelia Volk, bred a dark variety of Siamese: its colour
was lighter than the Burmese, but darker than the Siamese. In a report in the Journal of
Heredity, the colour was said to be close enough to the Siamese that it was unlikely to be
perpetuated. Between the 1950s and early 1960s, Milan Greer in New York City bred Golden
Siamese. These were Siamese/Burmese hybrids which had a rich mahogany body and dark
points. Greer had been told that such cats were normally considered defective and destroyed
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