British Gems Alora

prefix British Gems · British Shorthair · line: possibly SoloMiya, on a coincidence of codes only · both eyes blue · Variant not known

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 the line recorded on it, possibly SoloMiya, on a coincidence of codes only, which is a source's attribution and not a descent this register can walk; and 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 ALORA. A BREEDER SETTING OUT, IN HER OWN WORDS, THE WHOLE DISTINCTION THIS REGISTER WORKS TO. THE PAGE SEPARATES TWO THINGS. RECESSIVE ODD EYE: autosomal recessive, THE GENE MUST COME FROM BOTH PARENTS, associated with S piebald white spotting, carried silently for generations, NO HEARING PROBLEMS because it has nothing to do with the pure white gene, and recognised by FIFe for normal bicolour since 2019 and by LOOF and WCF. DOMINANT ODD EYE: ONE PARENT ONLY, a cat with 'minimal white variegation, a small white spot of a size of a hazelnut to a coffee saucer, and two intense blue eyes, odd, OR POLYCHROMIC, OR LATENT, non-expression of blue eyes but still carrier-dominant'. THAT IS EVERY CATEGORY THIS REGISTER USES, WRITTEN OUT BY A BREEDER | 'LATELY DOMINANT ARE GETTING LESS AND LESS WHITE, SOMETIMES NO WHITE IS VISIBLE ANYMORE.' That is the direct explanation of what this register has been seeing on British Gems Stitch, British Gems Alora, King Pride Mikado and the SoloMiya cats: coded animals with a locket or nothing, where the older material carries 01, 02 and 03 | 'DBE KITTENS IN SOLID COLORS WITH POSSIBILITY OF A LOCKET, A WHITE SPOT THAT IS A TRAITMARK OF THE GENES, OFTEN LOCATED IN THE NECK, ON THE TOES OR FACE.' The locket is not an accident that the code fails to record. THE BREEDER CALLS IT A MARK OF THE VARIANT ITSELF | AND IT NAMES THE PROBLEM THIS REGISTER KEEPS RUNNING INTO. 'SINCE THERE IS NO EMS CODE FOR THESE CATS, IT IS NOT VISIBLE IN PEDIGREE AND MISTAKES CAN EASILY HAPPEN.' Also: 'Solid odd eyed is not yet registered and will get RIEX experimental pedigree.' THAT IS WHY 61 IS BEING WRITTEN WHERE 68 IS MEANT, and why the coded cats of these catteries are absent from the registry listings | THE SOURCE OF THE DOMINANT IS NAMED. 'To obtain these genes and eye color it is necessary that the pedigree cat is crossed with an ALTAI, OJOS AZULES OR TOPAZ cat, THESE ARE THE LINES THAT EXIST IN DOMINANT. The first blue-eyed cats were discovered among stray cats in KAZAKHSTAN'S ALTAY REGION IN THE 1990s.' THAT PARAGRAPH IS THE BREEDER RESTATING WHAT THE PUBLISHED WORK ALREADY ESTABLISHES, not an independent confirmation of it. Abitbol and others 2024 report FOUR VARIANTS AND MULTIPLE UNMAPPED LINES, and this register holds that paper. THE PAGE'S VALUE IS AS EVIDENCE OF WHAT BREEDERS UNDERSTAND AND REPEAT, which is a different and also useful thing
2. BRITISH GEMS ALORA. Eye and coat, THE STRONGEST EXCLUSION THIS REGISTER CAN MAKE FROM A CODE. This cat is blue-eyed in both eyes and its recorded coat carries NO WHITE SPOTTING CODE AT ALL, is not dominant white and is not colourpointed. NOTHING IN THE COAT CAN PALE AN IRIS. A dominant blue eye is present and it is not the KIT odd-eye case and not the white-cat case. Its registry has entered no dominant eye code on it. WHICH VARIANT IS NOT DEDUCIBLE FROM A COAT CODE and none is adopted: a genotype or a trace to a named founder would name it.

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-95

Sex

female

Cattery prefix

British Gems

Breed, as stated

British Shorthair

Line

possibly SoloMiya, on a coincidence of codes only

Eye status

blue: both eyes blue

Eyes, in the source's words

blue, both eyes, photographed

Certificate wording

the breeder's own words: Ny1161, carrier chocolate, carrier dilute, pure shorthair

Role

other

Country

Belgium

Year

photographed 7 November 2023 as an adult

Photograph credit

cattery post, 7 November 2023

EMS code

BSH ny 11 61

The code read out

British Shorthair; black golden; shaded; blue eyes

The description held

BSH ny 11 61, BLACK GOLDEN SHADED WITH TWO BLUE EYES. THE CODE CARRIES NO WHITE SYMBOL OF ANY KIND: ny is black golden, 11 is shaded, and there is no w, no 01, 02, 03, 08 or 09 and no 33. THE PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS A WHITE CHIN AND CHEST THE CODE DOES NOT RECORD, AND NO WHITE ON THE HEAD. The golden pigment covers the top of the head and both orbits. She is not dominant white and not colourpointed. THE WHITE IS NOT WHERE IT WOULD HAVE TO BE TO HAVE PALED EITHER EYE A CAVEAT ON THE CODE, ADDED 29 AUGUST 2026 AND APPLYING TO EVERY GOLDEN SHADED BRITISH CAT IN THIS REGISTER CODED 61 OR 63 WITH NO WHITE FIGURE. THE ABSENCE OF A WHITE FIGURE IS NOT THE ABSENCE OF WHITE ON THESE CATS. Three cats in this material have now had white spoken to by someone who has seen them, and the three do not agree: Irven vom Wuerzburgerstern and Cooper from SoloMiya are both said to have some, and Topaz Zojka is stated by his own cattery to have none, and ALL THREE CARRY CODES WITH NO WHITE FIGURE. A golden shell or shaded coat puts near-white fur on the chest, muzzle and feet by its own tipping, and the registries writing these codes do not appear to separate that from white spotting consistently. FINDING 21 RESTS ON THE CODE AND IS THEREFORE WEAKER FOR THIS GROUP THAN IT IS ELSEWHERE, and it is not weakened where white is coded reliably, which is most of this register. NO STATUS IS CHANGED ON THIS RECORD BY THIS NOTE: a caveat is not a finding. A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE WHOLE CAT, OR A GENOTYPE, WOULD SETTLE IT. S_COOPER_187

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.