Alt imens jeg ledte efter noget helt andet fald jeg
lige over et referat fra Norwegian Forest Cat
Breeder' Meeting i Polen i 1998.
I referatet står der:
The cinnamon and fawn are new colours. An
original widespread recessive gene does not hide
for decades in the cat family. If it were a colour
natural to the NFO, it would have appeared many
years ago, like the colour blue.
Although it is an easy explanation, I am also
firmly convinced that we can exclude the
possibility of a new mutation.
It has been established that the cinnamon and
fawn stem from one and the same cat family in
Sweden. I wonder whether anyone has been able
to trace it further back than Babuschka?
Is it not altogether more plausible, therefore, to
accept the fact that somewhere in that family a
'wrong mating' took place - on purpose or by
accident - and was registered as a NFO x NFO. Is
there any reason to believe that NFO breeders
are more honest than other breeders?
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