Positioning Traits on Saga's Charts

[Kayla Woodrunner]

The other thing that shows a definite proven is if you have a cat and you prove the hidden on the cat than that hidden trait on the cat is definitely recessive to the shown trait -- no other proof is needed.

For example: using the example above

Fancie Purple is bred against Grotto showing
Ody Bell shows
Ody Bell is dom to Grotto so has to be Fancie Purple's hid
Therefore, Ody Bell is definitely recessive to Fancie Purple, no other proof is necessary

I like to use this shown and proven hidden charts to show proof -- to me, they are the best charts

A lot of people don't bother to check their hidden traits and assume their cat has a double same trait calling it pure -- unless it is checked with the current cat or with the previous ancestor, the hidden is not proven. The problem is that you can prove a different hidden; it is difficult to prove a same hidden because you are proving a negative. Without checking assuming a cat is "pure" just because the same trait has shown for generations when bred only against same trait means only that it has not been tested -- hids can pass for generatins. I have often found hids in so-called "pure" cats -- at least minimum on 2 traits of the cat so it always important to check for hiddens.