Siamese mom = Siamese kittens?

Beatriz Fernandez -  named after a famous white witch in my Galician village - invited herself to stay on Halloween. Well, who can refuse a cat on Samhain? I took her to the vet for a check up and all seems well except for a persistent cyst over her right eye which isn´t responding to antibiotics. . He said she was about 8 months old.  Over Christmas I was away and the housesitter let her out because she was "fussing". It now seems that she is pregnant. My question is this, and more out of curiosity than anything else. Do Siamese cats always have Siamese kittens? Siamese are surprisingly common here in the north of Spain but even then I suspect dad is black or a very dashing tabby. I already have two elderly cats and cannot keep the kittens. I think it will be easier to give away Siamese than tabbies and the Spanish are a bit superstitious about (amongst lots of things!) black cats.

What do you think? I would guess she is about three weeks gone.  She's a tiny, dear little thing most grateful for a warm place and food she doesn´t have to rescue from the garbage.

I am not sure, but the kittens could be any color.

I'd suggest getting her spayed as soon as you can to prevent unwanted kittens in the future. Plus it's better for her health to be spayed

Believe me, she would have been spayed before Christmas but the vet said wait until she is 12 months! Never mind, she and her babies (whatever coloiur) will have the best of care. Maybe just one more....?

No, probably she wont get pointed "masqued" kittens.

The genetics are thus. Genes goes in pairs, one from mom, one from dad. So also point genes.

Point genes are recessive. It means, if a point gene is in pair with almost any other, the kitten will be any other... NOT siamese.  Although the kitten will be bearer of the gene, as he got his point gene from the mom. (moms pair were both point).

The gene itself, when it comes forward as pair, is strong. Say we do have two russian blue parents, both carriers of the point gene.  Some of their kittens will get double point gene; they will have the look of a old type siamese - although of pure bred russian blue parents...

But.  YOu say pointed cats are common in your parts of your country. So the chance is quite good the father is a carrier of the point gene.  If so, half of the kittens will be point "siamese", half will look as he does.

Three weeks along?  It is possible to spay her even now, medically it isnt difficult at all. Ethically unpleasant of course, but yet it can be done, if you wish and the vet agrees.

Pity you didnt spayed her at once when you adopted her. This is the trick to do, if you arent want to breed on.

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cassandraberry said:

Believe me, she would have been spayed before Christmas but the vet said wait until she is 12 months!

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That is an old standard kept in Sweden too!  It is first now they had began to switch for 6 months...

In USA and many other parts of the world they have excellent result with early spaying, 10 weeks is good. (or at least one kilo / 2 pounds).

They had done it perhaps 30 years now, NO drawbacks.

She's not a Siamese, but a pointed domestic cat. As Stefan said, if the male carries points you will get pointed kittens but they aren't Siamese, they're domestics.