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 The situation didn't sit well with me, but what could one do? There isn't a DNA-test that could tel us if she was a silver or not. The only thing we could do (besides waiting) was mating her to a non-silver stud. If one of the kittens would be silver, it would proof Lani to be a silver too. But she wasn't even a year old, so that would have to wait for a while. In September I took Lani to show again. The judge was really charmed by her. As soon as he looked at her coat, he told me she was a silver. He also showed me why: by lifting the coat on her back up, you can see the base on the hairs. They were pure white. It was a fact then: Lani was silver. Even on the hardest place to spot silver (on top of the head), the silver colour appeared clearly. She received a wonderful judgesreport, but it also said she was a true silver. Now that there were two judges who labeled Lani as a silver and I had seen it for myself, the same question arose: now what? She would need a new pedigree, so I e-mailed the breeder. After that we contacted the association that had given out the pedigree. For a while they thought we would have a problem. You just can't change a pedigree because you think the colour of the cat is different that you originally thought.  Lani would have to come to show again, to be entered in the determinations classe. Then they could determine things once and for all. But I already had two judgesreports that said she was silver. Wasn't that enough? Luckily it was. So I made a scan of the reports and send them, together with the original pedigree to the association. Then I paid the required fee to have a new pedigree made. A little while after that I received it and was it official: Lani was a blue-silver. That wasn't what I had hoped for when I bought Lani, because I'm not much of a fan of the silvers. But it is what it is. Her coat may not be completely be what I had hoped for, she is a beautiful litle girl. The judges call her “promising”, so that promises something. But above all is she one of the sweetest cats in my house and that is worth much more to me. |
Nederlandse Burmezen Club  Member of Ocicat Club Holland  |
During the Eastershow last year I was given a surprise. I had entered little Lani together with one of my Burmese. In the morning it was the Burmese's turn to go to the judge, who was really pleased with her. During the afternoon it was Lani's turn to see the judge. Even before she was well out on the table, the judge picked her up, lifted her up and asked me what colour her parents were. I answered that her mum was blue and her dad was a black-silver. The judge nodded and then walked, without saying a word and with Lani still in his hand, to another judge.