| Title: | Meower Power is Valuing Differences |
| Notice: | FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY |
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| Created: | Sun Feb 09 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jan 11 1994 |
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I need help fellow feliners... Hannah is a very pretty cat, cream colored body with points like a siamese, but the points are orange tabby cat markings (like good old Morris). She has big blue eyes, and a pink nose with two freckles on the tip. I keep getting asked what breed she is, and I have no clue...so, what breed is a cream colored cat with an orange and cream colored ring-tail, orange tabby cat face point, orange tabby cat legs, and orange tabby cat ears? She does seem to have some definite siamese characteristics, like her talking, and her personality. I am assuming she is an intended siamese cross because normal results of an "oh oh" siamese cross is a cat without points, but with siamese shape. Hannah is just the opposite situation, siamese type markings, but regular cat type shape....I think you have to breed carefully to get the recessive gene that controls the color points.
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| 1245.1 | CIRCUS::KOLLING | Karen, Sweetie, Holly; in Calif. | Tue Apr 05 1988 20:25 | 3 | |
Why isn't this pussycat in the picture exchange, that's what I want
to know.....
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| 1245.2 | I'll ask Hannah about pictures | THE780::WILDE | Being clever is tiring.. | Tue Apr 05 1988 22:00 | 5 |
re: .-1 I'll take this subject of posing for pictures up with Captain Terror (Hannah's official title) and see what she says... | |||||
| 1245.3 | I'd call it a red tabby point | SCOTCH::FUSCI | DEC has it (on backorder) NOW! | Tue Apr 05 1988 23:47 | 30 |
re: 1245.0 -< what IS this breed, anyway? >- >getting asked what breed she is, and I have no clue...so, what breed is >a cream colored cat with an orange and cream colored ring-tail, orange >tabby cat face point, orange tabby cat legs, and orange tabby cat ears? Gee. . . "I know someone who has a cat just like that at home." 8^) What you've described, if a pure-bred, is something I'd call a Colorpoint Shorthair, in specific, a red lynx point. >She does seem to have some definite siamese characteristics, like her >talking, and her personality. Colorpoint shorthairs are considered siamese by just about everyone. >I am assuming she is an intended siamese cross There are lots of breeders working with cats like this. Just stop by any siamese or OSH breeder at any cat show and ask. >I think you have to breed carefully to get the recessive gene that >controls the color points. Not really. All you need to inhibit the color to just the points is the "siamese" gene. In theory, you could start out with your generic orange tabby, and a siamese, and eventually get that cat (but not in the first generation). Ray (genetics 'r' us) | |||||
| 1245.4 | Hope this helps | DSTR17::JACKSON | BEV JACKSON @VRO | Wed Apr 06 1988 09:46 | 11 |
I may be totally off track, but your cat sounds like a kitten I
am picking up this weekend. He is called a tortoise shell siamese.
He's going to have the orange points with the lighter body. His
owner tells me it is a pure-bred siamese. His mother is a tortoise
shell with points that are multicolored; his father is a sealpoint.
She also tells me that the female is the only one that will carry
the multicolor; the males will usually have the solid color points.
Look in this in note 1223 for more information. There are a couple
of notes about tortoise shell siamese.
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| 1245.5 | JULIET::CORDESBRO_JO | Tue Aug 02 1988 18:08 | 7 | ||
re: .4
I think "he" probably isn't a tortoiseshell, that would have to
be his mother. If he has stripes then he is probably a lynx point.
Tortoiseshell is sex linked color.
Jo
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