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RE: DOn't Say HIDE!?!
There seems to be some misinformation going around lately that every trait in every ancestor of a cat is still hiding and possible to pull out of a kitten. This just isn't true. Lets say I have a kitty showing gerbera blue eyes, but I know she is hiding ody rainbow. If I put her with a kitty with ody bellini and I get a kitten showing gerbera blue, it CAN'T hide the ody rainbow as the kitty hiding the ody rainbow chose to pass her shown gerbera blue. If it had passed the ody rainbow in this case, the ody rainbow would show since it is dominant to the ody bellini.
It can be very confusing at first, looking over pedigrees and trying to figure out where the traits in a kitten came from. Keep at it, and don't be afraid to ask someone to help you if you can't figure it out.
One thing that confuses people is this. Take the kitten we just made in the above example. It shows gerbera blue eyes and now hides odi bellini ( let's assume for this purpose the ody bellini is pure as in cat as bred when ody bellini was most revessive eye). If you were to pair this kitten with a different cat showing or hiding ody rainbow, you could make a kitten showing ody rainbow if the kitten chose to give it's hidden ody bellini. This confuses people and they say "see, I told you the ody rainbow was still in there" But it wasn't coming from the cat they think it was, it was from the new partner.
The main thing to remember is this. Every cat has two slots per trait. Each parent fills one slot with either their shown or hidden trait. The more dominant of the traits will be what shows. Whatever traits the parents did not pass, cannot be "in" that kitten. It's always an EITHER/OR thing, a parent can only fill ONE slot per trait.
Also, more dominant traits can be lost through breeding. In the above example if we had made a kitten showing ody rainow, the gerbera blue would be lost in that kitten because both ody rainbow and ody bellini are RECESSIVE to gerbera blue so the gerbera blue cannot be hidden.
The recessiveness charts are your friend. One of the best things you can do to help your breeding is to learn what is recessive to what. And always remember, the most dominant of the traits is what will show on a kitten. Hope this helps some =o)
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