Cat inbreeding rules

May 08,2024
2Min

Cat inbreeding rules:

1. Follow the prohibition of inbreeding within three generations. Avoiding inbreeding is for the health and development of the next generation of cats. Intimate mating can cause physical defects, stunted growth, premature birth, and stillbirth in kittens to a large extent.

2. From a medical perspective, inbreeding of cats cannot improve the breed, but it can maintain and promote the advantages and disadvantages of the bloodline. In other words, inbreeding is like a magnifying glass. It may further inherit and promote the advantages or disadvantages of the cat parents in the breeding system, so that the advantages can be amplified, and the disadvantages may also be amplified.

The reasons for cat inbreeding:

Because there are not many cat breeding options, or the cat breed is on the verge of extinction, or the breeder wants to shorten the genetic distance as soon as possible , when a system with better bloodline is produced. They will choose inbreeding to achieve their goals, but this kind of breeding cannot avoid the adverse consequences of inbreeding, and may cause harm to the next generation of cats to a large extent.

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