an unnamed British Gems kitten photographed 8 March 2024

prefix British Gems · British Shorthair · one blue eye · No variant and no line attributed

Under the variant field this directory proposes, this cat would read DBE 161p. A carrier of a variant nobody has sequenced, on no named line. This is the group bare 161 exists for. The proposal is set out in full here, and no registry issues this field today: it is computed from the record at each build and is not part of any registration.

How this cat is connected to the trait

NO RECORDED PARENT LINK JOINS THIS CAT TO A FOUNDER OR TO A TESTED ANIMAL. What the record rests on instead is no recorded parent at all, which is a gap in the sources and not a statement that the cat had none.

No parent is recorded for this cat in the register, so no genealogy can be drawn. That is a gap in the sources, not a statement that the cat had none. Any offspring the register holds are listed below.

What is flagged

1. AN UNNAMED BRITISH GEMS KITTEN PHOTOGRAPHED 8 MARCH 2024. A SECOND BICOLOUR WITH TWO BLUE EYES IN THE SAME CATTERY, AND THE MARKINGS ARE THE SAME SHAPE AS CALLISTA'S. THE LILAC PIGMENT COVERS THE TOP OF THE HEAD AND BOTH ORBITS: the fur immediately around each eye is lilac, and the white runs as a blaze BETWEEN the eyes and down the muzzle, chin, chest and front. THE WHITE IS NOT WHERE IT WOULD HAVE TO BE TO HAVE PALED EITHER EYE, AND BOTH EYES ARE BLUE. She is not dominant white and not colourpointed | THE BRITISH GEMS CLUSTER IS NOW FIVE CATS IN NINE MONTHS. KING PRIDE MIKADO, chocolate tortie, odd-eyed, with the blue eye sitting in the darkest fur on the animal. Her sons BRITISH GEMS STITCH, red, odd-eyed, and BRITISH GEMS YUMA, red solid, two blue eyes. And two bicolour females with two blue eyes each, BRITISH GEMS CALLISTA and BRITISH GEMS DIAMANTE. FIVE CATS, TWO PHENOTYPES, AND IN EVERY ONE OF THEM THE WHITE IS ABSENT FROM THE ORBIT | NOT ONE OF THE FIVE IS ON THE PAWPEDS CATTERY LISTING FOR THE PREFIX. The nine coded cats the registry does hold for British Gems are ALL van or harlequin carrying 61, 62 or 63, which is the classic white spotting pattern with an ordinary cause. THE CATS THAT MATTER ARE THE ONES THE REGISTRY DOES NOT HAVE, and they are known to this register only from the cattery's own photographs | NOTHING IS ADOPTED FOR ANY OF THE FIVE. No genotype, no EMS code, no date of birth and no parentage attaches to Callista or Diamante at all, and Yuma has only a stated dam. A PHOTOGRAPH CANNOT SUPPLY THEM

A flag is not an error. It marks a place where two sources say different things, or where an attribution cannot be made on the evidence held.

The record

Register id

bgm-90

Sex

female

Cattery prefix

British Gems

Breed, as stated

British Shorthair

Eye status

odd: one blue eye

Eyes, in the source's words

odd, one blue and one green, photographed

Certificate wording

no caption beyond the date; the cattery gives no name, code or parentage

Role

offspring

Relations named by the source

POSSIBLY A LITTERMATE OF BRITISH GEMS YUMA, photographed four days earlier at a similar age in the same cattery. The breeder writes of Yuma's sire line that 'all girls would be torti color', and this kitten is a tortie. THE CONNECTION IS AN INFERENCE FROM TWO PHOTOGRAPHS FOUR DAYS APART AND NOTHING MORE: no name, no date of birth and no parentage is given for this animal

Country

Belgium

Year

photographed 8 March 2024 at a few weeks old, so born about January or February 2024

Photograph credit

cattery post, 8 March 2024

The description held

CHOCOLATE OR CINNAMON TORTIE, ODD-EYED, ONE BLUE AND ONE GREEN, WITH NO WHITE VISIBLE ANYWHERE ON THE ANIMAL. No chin patch, no chest patch, no muzzle spot, no blaze, nothing around either orbit. ON APPEARANCE ALONE the coat excludes dominant white, white spotting and the pointed gene. NO EMS CODE EXISTS FOR THIS CAT, so the register's coat test cannot be run on it and the exclusion rests on the photograph

Evidence grade

Reported asserted, with neither a test nor a traced descent

This directory is a working aid compiled from published charts, registry documents and breeder statements. It is not a register and it has no standing of any kind. The grade attaches to the animal, not to the line: a cat whose ancestor was genotyped is line-traced, not genotyped.