Learn About Pure Breeding in Cats

"Hi! I am Dr. Adrienne Mulligan, I am the owner of Camp Verde Veterinary Clinic, and I am here today on behalf of expertvillage.com. I am here to speak to you about breeding cats. When I first discovered my breed—which are Balinese; Balinese are longhaired Siamese, but they are an actual breed of their own. They breed true, they are not a recessive gene in other words. When you breed Balinese you get Balinese, which means there is nice, flat, soft coat that feels like a rabbit. And when I first had my first Balinese, and I knew that it was the cat for me, because of their personality traits, I was extremely tempted to become a cat breeder myself, now I plead temporary insanity; but someday as a retirement hobby I may do that, because they are very rare breed, and there aren’t very many females out there to be had. But this is Howler Monkey, and they have a certain look to their face, and there are lines in their color. And with purebred cats, the thing that you really want to focus on is improving the breed and getting rid of so much of inbreeding, because so many cats have been inbred over the years that it is really making unhealthy kittens, and that is why they get rare. The Balinese cats are pretty rare, because a lot of inbreeding took place in the beginning of developing their line. So cat breeding is kind of difficult, it is not like dog breeding, it is not like putting a golden retriever together with a golden retriever and getting a golden retriever. There is lot more to it, and that and if you intend to breed cats you really need to do your research, because when I did mine, I realized it probably wasn’t what I wanted to do right now."