Please Be Carefull !!

[Khea Karas]

(02-24-2012 01:03 PM)anna acanthus Wrote:  OK i get you now !

Well, sure a hidden can remain hidden through quite a few generations and it has always been the hidden trait down throughout the generations, i've had some cool surprises like this myself.

As for the line - So when two cats breed, they both pass either their hidden or visible trait, and the kitten will have the more dominant of those two traits as the shown trait, and the less dominant as the hidden trait. - i read this as in the case of two different traits breeding together - the dom will show and the rec. will be hidden - but not as in my example case : a shown can pull a shown and for me this statement doesn't mean that the OS must be hiding one of it's parents more reccessive hiddens : they pass either their shown or hidden traits and so Black can just as well be the hidden as Flame could be.

I know i don't say IMHO when i spout but it's there and if i'm wrong about this well it sure won't be the first time, or the last

Anyhow the essential point about my post is that cases like these cannot be guaranteed to carry the parent's hidden.

I dont claim to be an expert lol...perhaps i misinterpret the info myself...in which case Saga will be on my back quick smart to correct me lol.

The one thing that comes to mind though is that the hidden is ALWAYS the recessive one, otherwise the dominant fur wouldnt "win" during the breed and therefore be shown. A cat has to have a hidden & shown per trait, and each can only come from one or the other parent.

Then if you have 2 black russian (dominant) cats, who have one flame (recessive) parent each, then it would mean once the black is shown the next recessive fur in line would be the flame or something better.

It's an interesting discussion