Ok, I have a solid lilac persian male show baby. The sire, his dad, is a solid Chocolate. His mom, the dam, is a Calico, both with lilac tendencies, so this baby is really rare.
Anyway, I have had my little show boy since July 29. He is only now 3 months old. I got him at 12 weeks. Today was Vet day. I wanted to introduce him and get his nails cut. Just a routine visit thing. While he was being looked at, I noticed an oddity, and something I never noticed before, even after giving him 3 baths since the 29th and one just this morning!! He had a chocolate colored fur patch on the side of his left foot and around one of his paw pads on the same foot!! I was wondering how in the HECK could I have missed that since the 29th and after giving him 3 baths since then!!!????
WELL, I wrote to my breeder. I told her of my dismay. Obviously I thought that he must have been born with a bit of chocolate on him from the sire, which was a CFA disqualifying factor in the ring. He must be solid lilac all throughout by standards. She asked for pictures, and I stretched that foot out in every which direction taking photo after photo and sent them. She wrote me back. She said either I have a VERY rare baby who is a male and part delute from a dominant solid gene ( or something like that..LOL) OR I have to seriously think of what he could have gotten into since it is on the side and under the foot.
I never gave it a thought. I truly thought that I was just going to be screwed in the ring, and my loving baby wasn't a show baby after all. So, I began to panic. WHAT was I going to tell my husband!! I had kept it secret since the Vets today. I simply could NOT tell him the cat wasnt' a show baby after all the expense. I was hoping for some kind of solution.
Well, I began to think of what it really COULD have been that maybe he DID get into in the house, and I began to look around. Then it hit me like a hammer to the forehead! It should have been my own foot I twisted in every direction!!
LAST NIGHT, for the first time ever, one of my older daughters asked me to color her HAIR! AND the color of choice? A LOVELY Chestnut BROWN!
I must have inadvertantly gotten a few drops on the floor of my kitchen. Where my daughter was sitting was on a chair on top of a dark colored octagon shaped rug, and I didn't see anything spill or drop, but it must have and I wouldn't have noticed it on the dark rug. I know the cats were walking around, but me being so careful, I never DREAMED. SO, it seems my little lilac boy must have stepped in a drop of the "Nice and Easy" permanent #3 hair coloring and colored the side of his foot (two pea size spots and one paw pad) a lovely chestnut brown!!!! Here I was thinking the father having chocolate that it was genetic, and I was ready to reem my breeder! I felt SO STUPID!!!
Thank GOD my poor kitty only got it on his foot and didn't get it on his face or anywhere else. Better yet, thank God he didn't get sick from it either!
Tomorrow I will call the vet and the nearest hair dresser to see what I can use to remove it. Can you imagine??? I should have known to section him off first. WHAT a dummy I am! Thankfully show time isn't until November, so I have time to get it out and let it grow out too. UGHHHHH. All that panic and writing and picture taking, and the whole time it was Nice and Easy Chestnut Brown hair coloring.
Of course I had to write back my breeder and felt so stupid. I finally told my husband the story once I felt relieved our show baby wasn't going to be disqualified after all.....LOL. He thinks that my breeder sold her cat to a lunatic - ME! LOL.....
Rose
Anyway, I have had my little show boy since July 29. He is only now 3 months old. I got him at 12 weeks. Today was Vet day. I wanted to introduce him and get his nails cut. Just a routine visit thing. While he was being looked at, I noticed an oddity, and something I never noticed before, even after giving him 3 baths since the 29th and one just this morning!! He had a chocolate colored fur patch on the side of his left foot and around one of his paw pads on the same foot!! I was wondering how in the HECK could I have missed that since the 29th and after giving him 3 baths since then!!!????
WELL, I wrote to my breeder. I told her of my dismay. Obviously I thought that he must have been born with a bit of chocolate on him from the sire, which was a CFA disqualifying factor in the ring. He must be solid lilac all throughout by standards. She asked for pictures, and I stretched that foot out in every which direction taking photo after photo and sent them. She wrote me back. She said either I have a VERY rare baby who is a male and part delute from a dominant solid gene ( or something like that..LOL) OR I have to seriously think of what he could have gotten into since it is on the side and under the foot.
I never gave it a thought. I truly thought that I was just going to be screwed in the ring, and my loving baby wasn't a show baby after all. So, I began to panic. WHAT was I going to tell my husband!! I had kept it secret since the Vets today. I simply could NOT tell him the cat wasnt' a show baby after all the expense. I was hoping for some kind of solution.
Well, I began to think of what it really COULD have been that maybe he DID get into in the house, and I began to look around. Then it hit me like a hammer to the forehead! It should have been my own foot I twisted in every direction!!
LAST NIGHT, for the first time ever, one of my older daughters asked me to color her HAIR! AND the color of choice? A LOVELY Chestnut BROWN!
I must have inadvertantly gotten a few drops on the floor of my kitchen. Where my daughter was sitting was on a chair on top of a dark colored octagon shaped rug, and I didn't see anything spill or drop, but it must have and I wouldn't have noticed it on the dark rug. I know the cats were walking around, but me being so careful, I never DREAMED. SO, it seems my little lilac boy must have stepped in a drop of the "Nice and Easy" permanent #3 hair coloring and colored the side of his foot (two pea size spots and one paw pad) a lovely chestnut brown!!!! Here I was thinking the father having chocolate that it was genetic, and I was ready to reem my breeder! I felt SO STUPID!!!
Thank GOD my poor kitty only got it on his foot and didn't get it on his face or anywhere else. Better yet, thank God he didn't get sick from it either!
Tomorrow I will call the vet and the nearest hair dresser to see what I can use to remove it. Can you imagine??? I should have known to section him off first. WHAT a dummy I am! Thankfully show time isn't until November, so I have time to get it out and let it grow out too. UGHHHHH. All that panic and writing and picture taking, and the whole time it was Nice and Easy Chestnut Brown hair coloring.
Of course I had to write back my breeder and felt so stupid. I finally told my husband the story once I felt relieved our show baby wasn't going to be disqualified after all.....LOL. He thinks that my breeder sold her cat to a lunatic - ME! LOL.....
Rose
