The show cats are very delicate

Show standards are quite specific on the general conformation of cats, but may become complex and variable, depending on the association consulted or the fashion from year to year, with regard to co Show Cats oration and marking.

What makes show cats beautiful, special and rare is the fact that attractions like long hair or unusual coat and eye colors are, biologically speaking, recessive characteristics. They are cultivated by patient and careful breeding, until all vestiges of tabby markings, say, are gone from the Siamese and disfiguring, off-color splotches are eliminated from pure white, black, and blue and so on.

Just how delicate this balance is, and just how recessive a recessive characteristic can be, has been proved time and again by the mating — accidental, of course — of a fancy-shmancy with a common cat who has no style but is bulging with gross, salt-of-the-earth, dominant characteristics. The kittens invariably come up plain cat, with tiger stripes and yellow eyes, and no faint trace of grand lineage in any feature.

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