Who to cross a British cat with

There are colors that when crossed can give the maximum number of different colors of future offspring, and there are those that are limited to 1-2 variants. The more colors a particular cat or kitty can give, the more expensive it will be. Of course, the price also depends on other factors.

?Why should you not breed Scottish with British?

Why not? Because they used to do it – lop-eared Scots used to knit with straight-eared Brits and the gene set was ok. The British were used as material for breeding a recognized breed called Scottish Fold (there was no breed Scottish-stride as such). Until 2004.

In 2004 the World Cat Federation WCF (World Cat Federation) officially registered the new breed Scottish Straight with the right to participate in the championship. Hooray!!!

Thus, in Russia the Scottish Straight-Eared Cat has become an independent breed with its own mandatory standards. And these standards differ from those of other breeds, from the British in particular.

At the same time in 2004 ⚠️ was adopted. an ordinance banning interbreed mating as from now on Scots and Brits are two completely different breeds with different standards and different point scales for the Championship. That’s it!

Occasional mating can now be made only for the breeding work of the club, accompanied by a reasonable record in the breeding book of the club, the issuance of experimental pedigree and further monitoring of the offspring.

IN THE UNITED STATES.

Scottish lop-eared cats are still mated with British or American shorthaired cats. But they do not have a breed Scottish lop, and we, too, in Russia, have!

So, Since 2004 mating a Scottish and a British is an interbreed mating The result is an averaged standard, neither one nor the other. The result – an average standard, neither this nor that. Including suffers the main feature of the Cattish Fold – the ears. About that below.

The British skeleton consists of short, powerful bones. In the Scottish, the skeleton is much lighter, the tail is more flexible and longer, and has more elongated caudal vertebrae. And this reduces the risk of skeletal abnormalities due to the abnormal cartilage gene.

Well, the British do not need to mate with the Scottish in any way, because it does not give anything, but only spoils their breed traits. British kittens are only born from a pair of Brits!

Why do you have to breed with a Scottish?

Thus, it is a bad thing to breed Scots with Brits. But with Scots it is good. Why?

Scottish Folds have a major breed asset that earns a significant amount of points at shows and championships, and that is their ears. Initially, representatives of the breed’s ears just “hung”, bending forward. Now, thanks to selection work, they have two or even three folds. The standard of the breed requires that the ears of Folds should be small, folded and not protrude beyond the contours of the head . Therefore, the task of breeders is to achieve maximum fit of the ears to the head.

And this factor is significantly influenced by modifier genes.

Cattish straights with straight ears still carry hidden genetic information about the lop ears of one of their parents, which is passed on to the next generation.

Therefore, thanks to the crossing of lop-eared cats with cats possessing the same lop-earedness modifier genes one can get the best results out of offspring and get wonderful show-quality animals.

The British do not have these genes-modifiers. And when interbreed mating a Scottish Fold with a British you get kittens whose lop-earedness is based on genetic material of only one parent – a Fold.

The density of their ears often leaves much to be desired. These kittens may have one sweet spot on their ears, and they are directed to the sides, and with time they may become upturned. Yes, and get such ears can be much wider and more powerful than the standard. Alas, not a show variant.

Scottish Fold differs from the Scottish Straight only ears, all other traits they have the same breed. Therefore, their interbreeding improves the breed.

And, of course, mating two Scottish with a lighter bones than the British significantly reduces the risk of negative effects of the mutated cartilage gene in offspring.

With whom can I cross a British blue cat?

Afternoon.
Can you tell me who I can crossbreed a British blue cat with and what kind of kittens will come out? I want to cross either white (chinchilla) or black, but many say that with chinchilla can not cross and white kittens will not work.

chinchilla is not a white color. and indeed, white kittens from such mating should not be expected. at best, part of the kittens will be of silver color, at worst you will get a full litter of kittens of trash mursik color with indistinct eye color in addition. do you need it?
If the cat is a club cat, the club will refer you to the right cat for mating.

Well, if you do not know what it is called mating, I doubt you should breed a cat. Are you allowed to breed?
Maybe you’d better castrate and love and adore? Why pry into what you are not competent?
As for the matter of fact, the genetics of the blue color are close (i.e. you can breed) black, chocolate, purple and, of course, blue.
If you breed with a chinchilla, you’ll get who knows what.

With chinchilla you will get “hedgehogs” That is gray in a dribble kittens (with poor pattern). And with black, if he does not carry chocolate and bleaching – only black. If it does, then not only black.) ) And the black in a good type – looking for a lot of trouble.
Breed with a good blue or purple, and do not reinvent the wheel. You will invent when you begin to understand the breed, genetics and inheritance of various characters (and colors).
Otherwise you might invent something that you’ll be tired to prove – that your kittens are British, and not purebreds.

If the cat is allowed for breeding, the appropriate cat will be found for you in the club. You should not do it yourself, if you don’t know the basics of breeding. Just check to see if there’s no inbreeding, what colors you can get, with whom to breed, and with whom you shouldn’t…
And if a cat has no breeding permission, you can breed with any cat. There is no difference at all – you will get a non-bred “murziki” – nobody will register them and give out papers (as it is accepted with purebred animals), what value in this case has a color?

Matching pairs by color

There is a concept of type of a British cat and color of a British cat. Before that the options of finding a cat by type were considered. Type is more important than color, but most beginners look for a cat according to color, as it is more understandable for them, to recognize the type they can not yet, as they have not learned to see the breed. Color pairs should be taken into consideration when selecting cats as follows: patterned animals should be mated with each other, solid animals should be mated inside solid, parti-colors should be mated with animals with white, qualitative silver must not be mated with rufous animals.

Why can’t colors be mixed? Imagine that you breed a solid (solid color cat) to a tabby (marbled or spotted cat). You have had both solid and drawn Brits born. But neither of them has a high-quality pattern: a solid has a residual spot, a marbled’s pattern is blurred. Or, for example, you have mated a chocolate cat to a bicolor cat and got kittens in white socks – it is not enough white or marriage of color. You can breed cats without regard to color, if your goal is to get a certain type and get on with the job. That is, with this kind of breeding, you’ll most likely get a half-finished product for further breeding work, but not a super kitten for sale. Only an experienced breeder with a specific goal in mind can breed cats without a pattern.

Blood type and the choice of a cat for mating

Hemolysis is a disease that takes the lives of kittens within the first 24 hours after birth. This disease occurs when cats are mated without regard to blood type. Cats have the following blood types: A, A/b and B. Group B cats can be knit with any cat. Group B cats are not recommended to mate with group A cats, it is when mating: cat B to cat A kittens can have hemolysis. If the kittens’ urine becomes red in the first hours of life, it means they have blood in their urine and the kittens show signs of hemolysis. These kittens should be weaned immediately and fed artificially for 3 days. Kittens with blood type A, not weaned from their mother with blood type B, will die in agony within a few hours after they have blood in their urine. Kittens who survive will have the tip of their tail drop off later. To match correctly, you need to know your cat’s blood type beforehand.

There are several ways to find out the blood type of a cat: send the genetic material to a lab in America or Australia by mail, take a blood sample for the blood type of a cat in a special laboratory or perform an express test at home. The most convenient method: sending the biomaterial to a lab in the USA. It is enough to take a swab from the inside of the cat’s cheek with a cotton swab and send it by regular mail or express delivery to the laboratory of the research center. If you are not satisfied with this method, find out if there are labs in your city that do a cat blood type test. The cat will need to be taken there to donate blood. Express tests are convenient, but they do not always tell the cat’s blood type truthfully. They are most often used to determine the blood type of kittens from umbilical cord blood.

Can I breed British and Scottish cats?

Breeding British and Scottish cats is often a thankless and very dangerous task. A pair of British cat with a Scottish cat or a Scottish cat with a mating cat can produce a totally unpredictable generation with lots of genetic problems. This is why only experienced breeders can perform such mating.

Previously, even during the breeding of the Scottish breed, British cats were actively used. Cross-breeding Scots and Brits was considered the norm. Later, when the breed standards were established, the two breeds continued to crossbreed to get more interesting qualities. For example, breeders wanted to make the Scots larger. But it turned out that interbreeding British with Scots worsens the other qualities of the breed, and there can be problems with the musculoskeletal system, because they have different constitution.

Scots have a lighter skeleton. They have a stretched, rectangular body with a long and flexible tail. British cats, on the contrary, are large, heavy, with a compact body and well-developed muscle mass. If you look from the side, the British, in contrast to the Scottish, should not be elongated, but rather square. There are also differences in coat quality: the British have a very developed and thicker undercoat.

Besides, if you breed a Scottish Fold and a British, lop-eared offspring most likely will not get perfect Fold ears (small and well-matched to the head), it needs so-called Scottish parent modifier genes. British cats do not have such modifiers, so ears of their offspring usually leave much to be desired – they are larger in size, more widely set, wider at the base.

However, competent breeders, who have thoroughly studied the Scottish and British breed, British and Scottish mating often gives very good kittens – healthy and perfectly flattened ears. But such breeding programs are for professionals only: most breeders without proper knowledge cannot repeat successful experience of famous catteries, so it is better not to experiment.

With whom to breed a Scottish lop-eared and straight-eared cat?

Mating with which cat should be, you ask? All arguments about what breed to breed a Scottish lop-eared and straight-eared cat are fundamentally wrong. After all, only cats of the Scottish breed (lop-eared and straight-eared) are allowed to mate. Interbreeding can lead to unpredictable consequences with the appearance and health. Plus the offspring will be mestizo: you will not be able to sell these kittens, but will be forced to give them away. Therefore, the answer to the question whether you can cross lop-eared and straight-eared cats with mongrel grooms and vice versa will be an unequivocal “no”.

Beyond that, there are rules within the breed. To the question of who can breed a Scottish lop-eared cat, the correct answer is: with a Scottish straight-eared cat. And the question of what cat to breed (cross) a Scottish straight-eared cat, the answer is: with a Scottish lop-eared cat. See the pattern? Straight-eared Scottish cats are allowed to mate only with lop-eared cats and vice versa. This is the only way to get healthy offspring.

The fact is that the lop-eared gene is a gene that not only “drops” the ears, but also changes the other cartilage in the body, so you can not cross two lop-eared (Folds) in any case, their genes should be placed with straight-eared, which will allow offspring not to have pathologies of the musculoskeletal system. More info about lop-eared gene and rules of pairing can be found here. Thus, we breed Cattish straights either with Scottish folds or with Highland folds, and Cattish folds – with Scottish straights and Highland straights.

So, to summarize the answer to the question of who you can breed a Scottish cat. The cat must be a good representative of his breed with a pedigree. We breed a lop-eared cat with a straight-eared cat, a straight-eared cat with a lop-eared cat. Crossing a straight-eared cat with a straight-eared cat is also allowed, but only straight-eared kittens are born from such manipulations.

The cat must be experienced, especially if the cat is not yet tempted. And he must be larger to be able to perform the intercourse by grasping the withers with his teeth and reaching his rear end at the same time. If he is smaller, the owner will have to hold the cat by the withers.

Formal details.

Where to look for a good cat? Among acquaintances. From ads on the Internet. At a cattery in your city. Through a club.

Before mating, you should sign a contract stipulating all the conditions, including the term for which you give the cat, a guarantee of pregnancy (if it did not come in the first time, the owners of the groom should be ready for 2-3 more free mating sessions). The contract also spells out the price you pay for mating, or payment by kitten.

If you’re looking for a pair on the ad, you should know that there are cases of fraud, when the ad for a cat gives one information, as if the cat has titles and certificates, and then it turns out that this is not true and he does not have permission to breed. It happens that the photos in the ads are false. You can learn more about this subject in the video. The only advice to avoid fraud is to check all documents and not to take the word of anyone.

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Who can I breed a British straight-eared tabby with?

There are two different breeds British Shorthair and Scottish Straight (Scottish Straight) and Lop-Eared (Scottish Fold). often breeders can breed a cat and cat of these two breeds together (used to be allowed). but now such cats are not recognized as pedigree. today only breed British with British, and Scottish with Scottish. But a lop-eared cat or cat can only be bred to a straight-eared cat. A shade of cat or cat does not play a big role… unless of course you want kittens of a certain color – then select a partner of the desired color. + more and pedigree – where all the grandparents will be listed with their colors. respectively, you will be aware of what kittens you may have and how likely a certain color.

Source: p.s British and Scottish are different breeds. Scots are lop-eared (Folds) and straight-eared (Straight).And the British only straight-eared.Because you wrote so:))) Straight-eared Brit as if there were lop-eared:)

You can’t breed one of those with anyone because he’s a non-breed. There is no such breed – straight-eared Briton. Only Scotties are straight-eared or lop-eared. So castrate the cat and calm down, do not breed unnecessary mongrel kittens.

What else do you think they are? If a cat doesn’t have breeding permission – don’t breed with anyone, and if he does, it’s still not your choice, but the cat’s owners.

With the same British, but in an excellent type and with a clear, bright and contrasting, and suitable to your blood (see pedigree).

With what breed can you breed a British cat?

*British.
*You can do it with a Scottish, but you need to consult the club.
*Don’t breed with any other breeds!

It is necessary that the pair should be a lop-eared or not, lop-eared cats cannot be paired with lop-eared cats, because you get incest.

If it is a British, only with a British, especially if the cat has papers.
If it’s a Scottish Straight, then with the Scottish Lop, and vice versa. crossing Straight + Straight and Fold + Fold can lead to pathologies. crossing the British and Scottish at all not welcome.
To experiment and spoil the breed is not necessary!

If I’m not mistaken, a British cat can be crossbred with different breeds. But it can cause different potologies. That is why it is better to breed Brits with Brits.

Brie is a closed breed, it means that purebred can mate only with purebred Brie, purebred Brie is when all the ancestors in the pedigree bri.If of course to go into details, there are experimental mating, when they breed with other breeds, but for such mating should be based, for example a new color. Here you can understand that it took some experimental mating to breed this color in Bree:

if you are a normal owner of your cat then with a British cat, if you are a Michurin heiress then with absolutely anyone!

Errrr, yes))))) a British cat, if it is so specified in the pedigree, before breeding should visit the show to confirm that the phenotype of the cat is suitable for breeding, and then with your club (feline instructor) to pick up the groom, of course only of British breed.

All breeds are complicated in breeding and genetics! There are NO easy breeds! British and Scottish are very similar breeds, but there are differences. Scottish cats can be both lop-eared and straight-eared, while the British, only straight-eared. Both breeds can be long-haired or short-haired. The coat of the British cat is more plush, and Scottish-soft.
P.S. A professional breeder or even just a cat breeder who does not breed cats, but knows the genetics would not have such a question. So you are a real breeder. NO ONE will let you breed a good cat with a mongrel! Castrate the cat and live a normal life!
Here are the “Brits” from breeders (1 photo).
And here are high breed show class Brits (2 pics).

Color genetics of Scottish cats

The coloring of a Scottish cat’s coat, skin and eyes depends on the pigment melanin. This pigment is microscopic granules that fill the hairs and vary in shape, size, and concentration.

There are two chemical types of melanin: eumelanin (eumelanin) producing black, chocolate, cinnamon, blue, mauve and fawn colors (black color group) and phaeomelanin (phaeomelanin) producing red, yellow-orange and cream colors (red color group).

The genes responsible for color are located in the X chromosome, which also determines the sex of the animal. Cats, like females, have two X chromosomes in the last pair of genes, while cats have one, but they have a Y chromosome, like males. Colors with genes on the X- or Y-chromosomes are sex-linked. Therefore types of colorations depending on sex can differ a little: for example, only females must be tortoise-colored and males only as an exception: such males are infertile, because inheritance of tortoise-colored gene in a cat is connected with other genetic mutations.

Sometimes genes are connected with other defects, for example, white cats with blue eyes are often born deaf. Albinos are an anomaly: they have a pigment deficiency, but may have no other health abnormalities. And it is not uncommon for color point cats to have strabismus.

Basic principles of cat genetics

Many beginner breeders look for a Scottish cat color calculator on the Internet. But it does not exist, as it would be a very complicated program. The whole “calculator” should fit in the head of the breeder, who must understand the basic principles of cat color formation. We will give answers to the most common questions.

Two long-haired parents can not produce a short-haired kitten. And two short-haired parents can, if both are carriers of the gene of long hair.

To get a red or cream colored kitten, the father and mother must be carriers of red pigment. However, the male kitten will get its color from the mother, so to get a red cat, you need the mother to be red. And the kitty cat will get her color from her mother and father at the same time. Therefore, if they are both red, then the girl will get red. And if one of the parents is black and one is red, then the kitty will be tortoiseshell.

A dominant color kitten (black, red) always has a dominant color parent. Two parents of a recessive color (cream, blue, etc.) cannot give birth to a kitten of a dominant color (black, red).

Dominant colors (white, blurred, smoky, tabby, bicolor) cannot skip a generation. For example, they cannot pass from grandmother to granddaughter without showing up in either parent.

A veiled/blurred kitten must always have at least one parent of a veiled/blurred color or tabby. A tabby kitten must have at least one veiled/blurred or tabby parent.

The veiled/blurred parent can produce a smoky kitten, but the smoky parent cannot produce a veiled/blurred kitten.

Two color-point parents cannot produce a different color kitten. That is, you can only get a color-point kitten if both parents are either carriers of the color-point gene, which does not manifest itself, or are color-point.

Unusual situations that can occur when mating cats: rules of conduct for owners

Unfortunately, as with humans, cats and cats can also have incompatibilities. Sometimes its manifestations are easily overcome, but there are cases where it can cause additional problems, so you need to be prepared for this initially and know how to help animals in case of need.

Situation #1: Animals don’t match each other in size (cat is larger than cat)

In this case, the cat, grasping the female cat’s withers with its teeth, cannot impregnate the cat because the back of its torso falls on her back. In this situation the owner has to help the cat by grasping the withers with his hands and giving the male an opportunity to grab the skin below the withers.

Situation #2. The cat collapses on its side during mating.

In such a situation, the mating of cats must take place with the constant support of the owners, who must put the animal in the right position. However, some cats can impregnate cats even if they are lying on their back or side.

The most severe case, which most often requires the intervention of a specialist – it is he who must enter the cat’s vagina with a special probe, after which the animal will let the cat go on its own. In rare cases stroking the cat’s belly or giving it an injection of medicine that causes ovulation (the medicine for the injection must also be chosen by a veterinarian!).

Situation #4. Some cats, finding themselves in an unfamiliar place, in someone else’s territory, “forget” the purpose of their visit.

Do not hurry and let the animals get used to each other, usually two healthy animals mate without any human help.

Situation #5. Cat owners make the mistake of assuming that the cat is in heat.

However, a cat detects this instantly. As soon as the cat is let out of the carrier and the cat sniffs its tracks, its behavior will show whether the cat is in heat or not. The cat either gets excited and says with a loud voice that he is ready to reciprocate, or indifferently turns away from the guest and go away, or even in her presence demonstratively laid down to sleep. Then you have to take the frustrated bride home. Keep in mind, that in this situation your cat becomes nervous (new surroundings, new people, and a cat nearby). It becomes aggressive or, conversely, depressed. This, of course, adds to the trouble and inconvenience to the groom’s owners.

Should the cat be given birth control?

Usually cats, not getting a cat during the onset of heat, move on to the next active phase – they yell day and night, not letting their owners and their neighbors sleep. Owners, unable to withstand this torture, often resort to advertised hormonal preparations (Contrasex, Antimau, etc.), after using which the cats have hormonal disorders that cause severe diseases of the genital system – sterility, endometritis, pyometra (“purulent uterus”), malignancies, malformations of offspring, etc.

This is a very important issue that needs to be addressed separately. Many cat owners consider such medications as an alternative to neutering the cat, but this is not true: contraceptives cause irreparable harm to your pet!

Reproductive system abnormalities may occur several years later, when the cat is already elderly, and you will have to either decide on a risky operation, or to put the animal to sleep. Therefore, if you do not want to tolerate regular henings and cat’s behavior after mating, it is better to sterilize your cat, which will not only save you the trouble of organizing mating, but also protect your cat from serious and dangerous for her diseases.