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Father
BWR Vendetta
Chocolate-point Siamese dumbo
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Babies
Born: January 9, 2009
Health Records
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Mother
BWR Sangria
Chocolate
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Background and Purpose: This litter was bred partially as a test cross, as well as to improve on type. On this side of my bloodline, I had been working hard to improve the heads, which tended toward the long side. The father of the parents of this litter had a decent head, as well as the maternal grandfather. To tease this trait back out, I chose to perform a full-sibling cross. Although there is a bad connotation associated with inbreeding, it is used as a tool in breeding animals to select for desired traits and weed out undesired traits. In this cross I was selecting primarily for heads, while also teasing out other traits that may be hidden so I could select for or against them. While some animals do not tolerate inbreeding very well, rats do tolerate it very well. Many people think of pet store rats as being inbred, and since pet store rats often come with a number of health problems, inbreeding must be the cause of those problems, and thus be bad. While it may be true that pet store rats are inbred, it is also true that pet store rats are very often randomly bred with no selection other than for production and perhaps for colors. It is this random breeding and lack of selection that accounts for the health problems, not the inbreeding. In my rats, inbreeding, and line-breeding, is used as a tool to help me tease out traits and select for or against those traits. Since my rats are very selectively bred, I strongly select against undesired traits, such as poor health, and strongly select for desired traits, such as good health and temperament. If you are interested in more information about this practice, please feel free to email me. In addition to improving type, I wanted to maintain the good temperament known in this line. The test part of this cross was the color. I suspected Vendetta to be a chocolate-point Siamese, but because chocolate-point can look so similar to seal-point, I would not be able to tell without breeding him. If he were a chocolate-point Siamese, his litter with Sangria, a chocolate female, would be all chocolate colors. Although the dilutes make it a little difficult to tell, it does appear that the litter contained all chocolate variations, and thus Vendetta is believed to be a chocolate-point Siamese.
Boys
1M) Chocolate
"BWR Ferrero Rocher"
BWR Resident
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2M) Chocolate
"BWR Toblerone"
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3M) Chocolate dumbo
"BWR Milo"
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4M) Burmese (chocolate based)
"BWR Terra Nostra"
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5M) Dove dilute (chocolate based)
"BWR Maui Wowi"
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6M) Dove (chocolate based)
"BWR Reeses"
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7M) Cocoa Burmese
"BWR Cadbury" (“Todd”)
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Girls
1F) Chocolate dumbo
"BWR Dormori"
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2F) Chocolate
"BWR Truffles"
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3F) Cocoa
"BWR Queen Anne"
BWR Resident |
4F) Dove (chocolate based)
"BWR Swiss Miss"
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6F) Ruby-eyed dilute Siamese
"BWR Valrhona"
BWR Resident |
Pedigree
For more family background, please email me.
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