Hi

I bought mine here! Yes I'm now the proud owner of two bundles of fighting fur!

You might find that they are allergic to something where you live. Were they okay after the flight and in quarantine, have you moved several times since getting here? I used to find everytime we moved in the UK our previous two would have sneezes for a week or so whilst they got used to the new environment. Is there unseen mould around? You don't say where you live. What does you vet say about it and treatment?

With the others regarding the howling, any of the oriental cats will be vocal and as they get older cats tend to howl more. Our Burmese started when we lost the other one and it got so bad we had to bannish him at night from our bedroom. There isn't a lot you can do about it, you could try using something like Feliway at night - they are cat pheromones which are supposed to relax them. Good luck!

Oh well, I must go and sort my two bundles of joy out!

KK

Answers:
1) From the UK.
2) She was 12 years old (Burmese) when we emigrated. She was as healthy as you would expect a 12 year-old cat to be.
3) She is now 15 yeas old and still healthy. Vet said at last check-up that she was very well for a 15-year old cat.
4) No, she hasn't got asthma.

We live in Perth, northern coastal suburb. If both your cats got asthma and if it's as rare as you say, my guess would be that there is something in your house (or garden) that triggered it.

Our Burmese cats lived to 18 and 21 3/4! We put off emigrating when the visa came through because Cadbury was 18 (we'd lost the other one by then) and we thought flying him out would be too much. He then trundled on for another few years but until the last year he never looked his age and was a younger looking than some 12 year olds at the cattery!

I started to get really worried as earlier in the year before we lost him he got really hyperactive, flying around the lounge like he was a young kitten again, a lot of very expensive thyroid blood tests later revealled all was normal, he was just really good for his age.

Burmese are lovely cats, very affectionate and completely bonkers, I have heard them referred to as furry hooligans!

We have now got Siberians! We didn't want Burmese again as it would remind us too much of the other ones (plus most of the Aussie Burmese are based on the American version who seem to be a bit bug-eyed!) so we came across these Siberians which are huge fluffy cats like a Maine Coon but have less of the protein in their dander which causes allergies. We're fine but we have a lot of friends (and overseas visitors) who have cat allergies. It has been said we should get new friends ha ha! These two are also completely bonkers as well!

So, you may have many more years of Burmese company if mine were anything to go by!

Shockingham, perf