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To: freekitty
This particular breeder specializes in Blues and Lilacs. Since the Lilac is simply a Blue with a dilute gene, you don't get the Seal/Chocolate coloration (Chocolate is a Seal with a dilute gene). And with kitties, you get through 5 generations in a hurry!

It's probably wise to keep those bloodlines separate -- just like keeping the Chocolate Labs out of your Yellow Lab bloodlines because of the risk of coming up with a "Dudley" (a Chocolate Lab with the dilute coat color gene that produces a Yellow Lab from a Black Lab. A "Dudley" is a Chocolate Lab with a yellow coat -- they have pink eye rims and a pink nose. Not a good thing for anybody, they're supposed to be more susceptible to sunburn and skin cancer, and disqualifying in the show ring).

159 posted on 11/19/2007 10:28:14 AM PST by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: AnAmericanMother

Genetics be it kitties or doggies is fascinating. I have two white sable dogs and 1 silver sable dog. It’s amazing what you can come up with. They all have the same father who is a pure white. The girls mother is a white sable and the boy’s mother is a light gray sable. The father and mother of the girls produced an entire white sable litter which is the only one ever produced in this breed with a white father and white sable mother. They said it couldn’t be done. I think it was because the father had a lot of whites in his background and the mother had a lot of whites in her background. Probably a double recessive white gene there.

However, the father and the gray sable produced a litter of no whites and 4 silver sables.

Genetics is so cool; and you can predict what the pups might be; but then you get that occasional odd one that’s been hiding. LOL like the chocolate in your blue’s history.

So, it’s kind of a crap shoot.


160 posted on 11/19/2007 10:50:37 AM PST by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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