British Gems Lucy

prefix British Gems · British Shorthair · no blue eye. Carrier status not known · No variant and no line attributed

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. BRITISH GEMS LUCY. A SECOND BRITISH GEMS ODD-EYED CAT WITH NO VISIBLE WHITE, AND THE REGISTER CANNOT NAME IT. The photograph shows a chocolate or cinnamon tortie kitten at close range in good light. ONE EYE IS BLUE AND THE OTHER IS GREEN. THERE IS NO WHITE ANYWHERE ON THE VISIBLE ANIMAL: no chin patch, no chest patch, no muzzle spot, no blaze and nothing around either orbit. On appearance alone the coat excludes dominant white, white spotting and the pointed gene | IT IS NOT BRITISH GEMS STITCH. Stitch is red, born 9 September 2023, and his own photographs show a white chin and chest. This is a dark tortie photographed at a few weeks old in March 2024, so born about January or February 2024 | THE CATTERY LISTING DOES NOT HOLD IT. The only 2024-born British Gems cat on the listing this register holds is Lucy, BSH o 02 62, 25 March 2024, a HARLEQUIN WITH ORANGE EYES, which this is not. THE KITTEN IN THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS NOT ON THE LIST AT ALL | THE HOLDER OF THIS REGISTER INFERS A VARIANT LITTER IN THIS CATTERY IN 2024, AND THAT IS RECORDED AS AN INFERENCE. It is a reasonable one: two odd-eyed cats without the white to explain them, from one small cattery, within six months, in a prefix whose other nine coded cats are all van or harlequin. IT IS NOT A FACT. No name, no code, no date and no parentage is attached to this animal, and a photograph cannot supply them | THE SECOND EYE IS GREEN, NOT ORANGE. Stitch pairs blue with amber; this cat pairs blue with green. Both are odd eyes and the register records the difference without reading anything into it, because the breeder-compiled charts of this survey use one blue and one green as their own odd-eye symbol

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-19

Sex

female

Cattery prefix

British Gems

Breed, as stated

British Shorthair

Eye status

not-blue: no blue eye. Carrier status not known

Eyes, in the source's words

orange

Role

other

Country

Belgium

Year

2024-03-25

EMS code

BSH o 02 62

The code read out

British Shorthair; cinnamon; harlequin; orange or copper eyes

The description held

coded BSH o 02 62. THE 02 IS HARLEQUIN, the highest grade of classic white spotting short of dominant white, WHICH PRODUCES A BLUE OR ODD EYE OF ITSELF. The eye has an ordinary cause and no variant is read on this cat

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.