AboutDr Ray Wigley Expertise I can answer questions on inbreeding of pedigree cats. Also when to inbreed and when not to inbreed. Also when to consider out crossing cats to help diversify the gene pool. I can also answer questions on how to get the best out of your cat at a show.
Experience I have bred animals for over 30 years. I am actively engaged on research into FIP and other feline diseases also investigating litter size variation as a consequence of breed.
Expert: Dr Ray Wigley Date: 6/19/2008 Subject: himalayan
Question hi,
I am planning to buy a himalayan kitten, and found a cattery that will sell me a himalayan kitten, claiming that the the mother is a flat-face himalayan, and the father is a doll-face himalayan. so my question is: Is it possible that a male and female himalayan cats can reproduce himalayan breed kittens?? because according to my knowledge, himalayans are a mixed persian-siamese breed.
thanks in advance
Answer Hi Blaze
Originally to produce a Himalayan (Hi) cat you crossed a Persian with a Siamese. So your knowledge is correct in part. But that cross produced the first kittens. Since then breeding Hi to Hi has produced true Hi so there is no need for the outcross anymore.
What you read about was the origin of the breed not its current status, does that make sense
