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A HISTORY OF SEX-LINKED RED & CREAM
& TORTOISESHELL ABYSSINIANS |
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When Doreen Healey went to Saudi Arabia in 2004 there was a significant
dispersal of her Pinegrove (also known as Pineridge) cats, as well as the
loss to the UK – temporary we hope - of one of the most determined “Unusual” Aby breeders. Doreen has bred Red, Red Silver, and many Tortie
and Tortie Silver Abys.
The story of the sex-linked Red gene originates from the breeding of Curiosity
Julius, a Usual Abyssinian bred by Mrs Cathy Baker and owned by Mrs Muriel
Fry (Zolda), with Mrs Wendy Chapman’s Wendele Whip Poor Whil, a blue
tortie Burmese. (Although on ERoS she is described as Cream, she was
exhibited as a kitten at the National Cat Club in 1981 described as Blue Cream
Tortoiseshell and with this spelling of her name. Ref: Fur & Feather Volume 144
Number 4 535 page 46.) This line is now up to 10 generations and beyond, and
carries through into several UK lines, as well as catteries in the United States
and Switzerland.
The terms F1, F2 etc refer to how many generations a cat is away from the original outcross. |
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