Suri's 5 generation TICA papers finally came in the mail today! My excitement to see the pedigree quickly turned into surprise...shock... and because Ive previously bred numerous pedigreed animals.... a bit of disgust.
Suri is SO linebred!! Like....BAD. Its the same cats just bred over and over and over to each others offspring!!! What?! I know that linebreeding is pretty typical in the pedigree world of ALL animals (Ive had AKC labs, ARBA rabbits, ADGA goats, even horses with linebreeding in their papers....but not by MY doing), but this is just....wow.
Is heavy linebreeding pretty common in the bengal world? Is it predominantly done just to lock in certain traits such as colors, coat patterns, personality, etc....or is it just sheer stupidity? I cant believe that Suri's breeder, who has around 80 cats, allowed this to happen. Its not like hes lacking in the genetic department. I guess I dont know much about cat genetics.
Hopefully the attached image is legible.....
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