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Hi everyone is entitled to their own opinion but what exactly have i to confess ??? i have been breeding for 5 years now and have many happy people who have bought healthy kittens from me,and still keep me updated now.These people have passed on my number as happy buyers.I have 4 female cats and i male and never have more than one litter a year from each cat.My cats are healthy,well fed regually wormed and flea treated.This is the first time i have had a problem with a kitten,They are also pkd neg tested and vaccinated.Would a couple of bits of paper ensure never encountering any such problems??
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Sorry you have a problem with this kit. Please could I ask which breed of cats is it that you have?
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i would love to see pictures,of your kittens,,,,,,,,,,,
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O come on, you can't possibly say that without any evidence. Do you know of any gene for flat ears? I don't! It is surely very unlikely that Claire has been unfortunate enough to have "discovered" a new deleterious gene.
No of course not. My point was merely that she should not be breeding cats that are not deemed to be 'breeding stock'. I have posted my reasoning in the BYB threads.
Cat breeders feel very strongly about people like Claire. I will shut up at this point, but you are right. I was just bitching.
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Hi i have a litter of pedigree kittens and one of them has funny ears,when they are born their ears are quite flat against their heads and they open out after a while,however this little boys ears are still flat against his head and appear folded.The rest are fine is this possibly because the mum has had a few litters and is getting on now?(mum being spayed in 4 weeks,aged 7/8yrs)Has anyone else had anything similar happen? i will have him checked out by the vet to make sure there is nothing else,he looks quite cute,a bit like a little bat.
Clare, This is one of the points made in the BYB thread,
Your cats could be more closely related than you realise,
since you cat check the pedigrees you wont know will you
and this is what can happen to poor kittens born when you dont know what lines your breeding from
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Old 12-03-2008, 09:32 PM
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This particular cat has had 3 litters with the same dad with no problems.
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Clare, what is it you breed? Obviously it's some sort of colourpointed cat, but what?
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Clare has said that she breeds Ragdolls and she bought her cats from a similar backyard breeder.

So trying to trace the original culprit will be difficult.
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Well then, there's not a lot that anyone can do except help Clare to solve the problem with this kitten. It is incredibly unlikely to be genetic, there aren't going to be scottish folds in the pedigree and it would have to be a new mutation. The odds against that are very high. Probably it's just developmental, these things happen.
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This particular cat has had 3 litters with the same dad with no problems.
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Old 18-03-2008, 09:29 PM
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Kittens ears now look perfectly normal strange but true.
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