Too Confused! About the Special Kitties breeding rules

[Tad Carlucci]

The clover eye replaced the recessive eye. So if Mom would have given the dominant, she still does; but Dad's recessive is replaced. Or Dad's eye contribution would have been dominant, and Mom's recessive was replaced. Yes, this means it's possible for the clover eye to actually be in the 'recessive' slot but be dominant over the 'dominant' slot .. but the paint job hides that by making the clover the visible trait instead of the dominant trait passed from Mom or Dad.

Let me give an example. Assume the Clover eye is dominant over Platinum. Mom passes Platinum. Dad passes Odyssey Sublime. The kitten should be Platinum hiding Sublime. But it's lucky and instead it's "Platinum hiding Clover, but showing Clover anyway". But, if it had been bred, instead of lucky, it would have been "Clover hiding Platinum". So you breed it to some Platinum and get a series of Clover eyes hiding Platinum. If you breed two of those Clovers, Platinum (by our assumption) pops out proving our assumption correct.

Unfortunately, it's far too early for ANY statement about the true place of Clover in the dominance list. At this point, the only statement which *is* correct is "Clover is recessive to Genesis eyes".

Oh, and I note that if you're upset that your carefully planned cross to Platinum hiding Sublime was ruined when Clover replaced Sublime, file a ticket and they'll remove the Clover gene and paint job and give you your plain-ol' Platinum hiding Sublime.