If a typical cat breeds with a Persian cat, will the kittens all have flat faces and long fur?
Those two features seem pretty dominant to me, but again, I'm not sure.
Let's say the mother was a regular shorthair cat, the father a full-bred Persian.
Is there a chance that one of the kittens will come out with no Persian traits(short fur, long muzzle), and another looking like a full-breed Persian(long fur, flat muzzle)?
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1. maybe but there is no way of being able to tell its like trying to guess wat a human baby is going to look like there is no garentee2. There is probably a 1/4 chance that you'll get a kitten to come out like that.
3. They created Exotic by breeding a female Persian with a male British Shorthair so I think the genes for flat muzzle comes from female and the hair length from male. Even when Persian breed with another Persian only some of their offspring will have flat muzzle, the others could have semi-flat or less flat muzzle.
4. Very unlikely they'd look much like a Persian at all. They're probably just look like domestics with longer fur and maybe slight features of the Persian - rounder eyes, etc. Breeders are VERY protective of their lines and it's not so easy to get an unaltered cat. So if you have an unaltered male Persian odds are its not a pedigreed, breed standard, show quality cat so it wouldn't have true Persian features to carry over.
If this is a backyard breeder Persian then what it COULD carry over to crossbred kittens is PKD - Polycystic Kidney Disease. A cat with PKD can go into Renal Failure and die as young as four years old.
Why are you even asking this? It would be pretty irresponsible to crossbreed cats with the MILLIONS of cats and kittens put to death at shelters every year since there's not enough homes for them. Leave breeding to those doing so for the RIGHT reasons - for the love of and to better the breed and doing so with show quality animals.
edit: the AMERICAN Shorthair was used to create the Exotic NOT the British Shorthair http://www.tica.org/public/breeds/es/intro.php And a HUGE difference between selective breeding of pedigreed cats and randomly bred domestics/backyard breeder Persians!
5. By typical cat, if you mean domestic shorthair, for the long hair, it would depend whether that cat was carrying the longhair gene. Longhair is recessive - it takes a copy from each parent for the kitten to have long hair. Most DSHs probably don't carry longhair so most crosses of Persians with DSHs would be short haired.
The ones who did get the longhair would probably not have as long or thick a coat as a Persian since there are no doubt various other polygenes that influence that.
The flat face is not inherited from one simple gene. But I think often a flat faced Persian X DSH does produce kittens with somewhat shorter than average faces. Of course "domestics" come in various head shapes themselves. and it would probably also depend on that cat's face and its ancestors.
and yes it is possible there could be some who did have long hair and also a rather flat face, and some who had no Persian-looking traits. There could (less likely) be all of them having those traits, or there could be none of them who had either trait.
Hope you're not thinking of irresponsibly crossing a Persian & domestic, such a cross is certainly not preserving the breed and there are so many non-pedigreed cats already needing homes.
