Breed True - To produce a kitten exactly the same as the parents.
Brindling - This is the effect when hairs of an incorrect or odd colour (eg., white) are interspersed in a cat's coat.
Breed True: The act of producing kittens that closely resemble the parents.
British Shorthair Cat: A breed of shorthaired cat with a very dense, soft coat and large round copper eyes.
Breed True - Offspring who closely resemble their parents.
Breech Birth - Born feet first.
Breed Quality - A cat who closely matches the breed standard & is of a quality to be used in a breeding programme.
Tonkinese do not breed true. Owners say a typical four-kitten litter from a Tonkinese-to-Tonkinese mating will usually result in two kittens which will look Tonkinese, one Siamese and one Burmese.
breed true: To produce kittens that closely resemble the parents.
breeder: By convention, the breeder of a cat is the owner of the cat's dam at the time of mating.
Breed True To produce a kitten exactly the same as the parents. Brush A bushy or plume-like tail of a longhaired cat. Cat Fancy A term that refers to pedigree cats and their breeding, and to cat clubs and societies.
Frances Simpson continued, "It is only of recent years that any English fanciers have tried to breed true Manx cats. Miss Samuel has been very successful in establishing a strain which again and again breeds true to type.
The Bombay did breed true. She consistently got totally black cats, with huge copper eyes, short shiny black coats, with their own distinctive head and body types. They were decidedly different from any other black cat.
While it is true that any shorthaired cat can look like a true American Shorthair, only those animals that can produce kittens that have the same body conformation, coat quality, and temperament, that is, those that "breed true" can be considered ...
A small group of European breeders set about developing a pedigreed Norwegian Forest Cat that would consistently breed true to temperament and type. The oldest cat club in Norway featured the breed in 1938.
Full a breed that competes for championship titles at shows organised by, or affiliated to, that registry Provisional/Preliminary the level of recognition of cat breeds until they demonstrate that they breed true to their registered ...
Munchkins do not breed true; that is, they do not consistently breed short-legged kittens. Litters of kittens born to either a male or female Munchkin are, on average, half short-legged. These are the true Munchkins.
it was felt that cats with three generations of descendants did not breed true to type. They were allowed back into competition in l956. In the early 1960's a new color arose, Champagne, and caused problems.
Breeding two Tonkinese cats does not necessarily yield a full litter of show quality Tonkinese kittens - the colorations do not breed true to type in about half of all otherwise purebred kittens.
The breed does not breed true for curly hair, so litters may have mixes of hair types. All patterns and colors are acceptable. They are on the small side for breeds, with males averaging around 8 pounds and femals around 6 pounds.
Since all Manx cats possess only one copy of the Manx gene, and since heterozygous cats cannot breed true, Manx cats come in a wide variety of tail lengths. The tail types are broken into four classifications: rumpy, rumpy-riser, stumpy, and longy.
Many years of selective breeding followed that first litter. Ms Horner began getting answers, the Bombay did breed true, no other colours were present, only the Beautiful Black was produced.
To belong to the natural cat breeds, a cat must "breed true" for the traits that define the breed. They will pass on particular biological traits to their progeny when bred to a mate of the same breed that is also true breeding.
While a non-pedigreed domestic cat may look like a pedigreed American Shorthair, the mix of uncertain genes means that the domestic generally will not breed true; you cannot count on type, temperament, ...
The Bombay did breed true. Eighteen years after the first Bombay breeding experiment in the year 1976, the Bombay was recognised for championship status in The Cat Fanciers' Association.
In other word the gene is lethal in homozygous form, which is potentially a desirable form as the cat would breed "true" (all offspring would be tailless). The Manx cat will never breed true because of this deficiency.
 See also: Champion, Cat Fancy, CFA, Genes, Siamese Cat
  
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