The Breeding Program
After several years of
experience in the cat fancy we have decided to dedicate a page on our site to
introduce our breeding program.
We have discovered that cat pictures and
pedigrees do not always reveal in depth where a breeding program is headed - and
how the goals of the program find their sources in the pedigrees. We hope this
page will help to clarify these things.
Our
goals
BigPurrs Persians is a Bi-color and white Cattery, meaning
that we strive to produce White Persians and Bi-color Persians who meet the
breed standard to its best. We do not use Himalayens, Exotics or CPCs
(Color Point Carriers) either in our breeding program or our
pedigrees.
We also try to steer away from the Agouti tabby gene and the
Inhibitor gene in the program - even though these may appear in some of the
pedigrees since leading lines in our pedigrees have used these
genes/colors.
In the future we wish to include more dilute cats in our
program in order to also produce dilute High-white Bi-colors along with Whites
carrying these genes.
Cats we bred back to
In every
breeder's program and pedigrees there are several cats they consider a mark of
excellence and which they "breed back to". This means these cats may appear in
the pedigree 2 or even more times due to inbreeding or line-breeding. This is in
order to produce cats that are as consistent as possible to the traits of these
cats.
In our pedigrees there are two cats I bred back to - SugarSpun It's
How You Love of BigPurrs (AKA Cameron) and Finchfield Hey
Presto! Of Zaladin.
Sadly, both of these cats are no longer with us. Here are
their pictures:
Retired cats and other significant
donations
Some cats in our program have now retired and are now
happy spoiled pets - either with us or with our friends - and yet have made a
significant contribution to our current program. Here are their
pictures:
We pride in our cats' very full smooth roll out doming, huge eyes
that are far apart which creates a sweet open expression, along with a prominent
chin and open nostrils.
We hope that this makes our pedigrees and program
a bit clearer to understand.
We take a great deal of time to study our
pedigrees so if you have any questions or other information you need - feel free
to contact and ask.
Other cats in our pedigrees have been placed with other breeders
and are still breeding. Here are their pictures:
SugarSpun It's How You Love of BigPurrs
Finchfield Hey Presto! Of Zaladin
BigPurrs More Than Faith
BigPurrs Stairways to Heaven
BigPurrs Lightly Iced of Zaladin
