Afina from the Nice Cattery

prefix Chatterie de Nice · Siberian · both eyes blue · 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. AFINA FROM THE NICE CATTERY. HELD APART FROM THE COAT-EXCLUSION DIAGNOSTIC, AND DELIBERATELY. This register excludes the coat where a cat is a traditional bicolour with two blue eyes, because white spotting covers an eye where the white falls and gives an odd eye rather than two blue ones. AT VAN AND HARLEQUIN GRADES THAT REASONING FAILS: the white is extensive enough that bilateral blue is available from the coat itself. HER WHITE IS AT OR BEYOND THAT GRADE ON THE PHOTOGRAPH, so her coat is NOT excluded and she is not counted in the diagnostic. This is the distinction that keeps the register from overclaiming, and it is applied against a cat whose own breeder presents her as an example of the line | CONTRAST WITH ATHENA OF THE SAME CATTERY, whose white is confined to the chest, muzzle and feet. The two are described in the same words by the same breeder and they fall on opposite sides of this rule | A REGISTRY CODE WOULD SETTLE IT. If she is coded 03 the coat is excluded and she joins the diagnostic; if 01 or 02 she stays here. NO CODE, NO DATE AND NO PARENTS ARE PUBLISHED FOR HER | THE CATTERY STATES SHE WILL PASS ON HER BLUE EYES, which is a breeder's claim of heritability and not a test result

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

sbc-137

Sex

female

Cattery prefix

Chatterie de Nice

Breed, as stated

Siberian

Eye status

blue: both eyes blue

Eyes, in the source's words

blue

Certificate wording

brown tortie and white, in the cattery's own words

Role

dam

Country

France

The description held

TWO BLUE EYES ON A CAT CARRYING A GREAT DEAL OF WHITE. The photograph shows white over the muzzle, chest, belly, legs and a broad facial blaze, covering roughly half the coat or more. NO EMS CODE IS PUBLISHED FOR HER, so the amount cannot be read off a registry entry, and on the photograph it is at or beyond the harlequin grade rather than bicolour. She is not dominant white and not colourpointed

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.