Line Breeding: Mating related cats that have a common ancestor appearing at least one time in the first three generations of both parentıs pedigrees.
Litter: Kittens born by the same mother at the same time.
Line Breeding: The practice of mating a cat to a member of an earlier generation of the cat's bloodline.
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The Feline Breeding Process
Cats are truly prolific when it comes to reproduction. Since ancient times, when the Egyptians worshiped cats as a fertility symbol, the female cat (queen) has been associated with fecundity.
they would all have come to light if left to themselves, with random matings of the cat population, because some colours are dominant over others and the recessive colours would always have been at a disadvantage, unless once again the line breeding ...
The farm's owner, together with a neighbor, bred the cat with his sister, and after successive close-line breedings the wire-haired breed was established. Fortunately, the original breeders did recognize the need for some out-breeding.
Bombay, will often exhibit what's called 'hybrid vigour' - enjoying the positive features of both parent breeds whilst avoiding health concerns which may trouble the purebred parents. This process of 'hybrid vigour' is often used in feline breeding ...
by Ann Baker were, "Although the original mother was white, she mated to any cat that could catch her; mostly dark cats and our best were black. The first ones were registered as "experimental Persians". It took seven generations of line breeding to ...
dwarf cat is a deliberate out-cross (a hybrid) between the founding dwarf cat the Munchkin and an American Curl. An "out-crossing" is a form of breeding when unrelated cats parent the chosen offspring. This is in contrast to "line breeding" when ...
Helen Smith of MerryMews Cattery in New York, both found longhairs in their Siamese litters and were quite taken by their beauty. Rather than putting them out as others had done, they began line breeding to produce longhair Siamese.
 See also: Cattery, Inbreeding, Purebred, Cat Association, Mask
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