Thread: Half Persian Kittens Will they be long haired?
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Old 09-11-2009, 06:30 PM
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Re: Half Persian Kittens Will they be long haired?
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Originally Posted by MerlinsMum View Post
Only if the father carried a gene for long hair...
Genetics doesn't work quite like that, i.e. "short hair x long hair = semi-longhair" in the same way that breeding a white cat with a black cat will not give you grey cats!
Quite true. But there is some sort of incomplete dominance involved because there is no doubt that a very shorthaired cat crossed with a longhair gives you shorthair kittens but nowhere near as short as the shorthair you started with - the Asian breeding programme has shown that up very clearly.

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