{"id":4567,"date":"2020-11-19T03:51:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T11:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=4567"},"modified":"2020-11-19T03:51:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T11:51:31","slug":"thoughts-for-thursday-olivias-cat-dna-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=4567","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts for Thursday \u2013 Olivia’s Cat-DNA Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I told you that I sent Olivia\u2019s swab to BasePaws Cat DNA testing. Well, I have received the report, and it\u2019s very interesting. I learned that there\u2019s some Maine coon in her heritage make-up as I suspected, also American shorthair and British shorthair and peterbald. Now the peterbald surprised me as this is a Russian hairless cat and Olivia certainly has a beautiful and lush \"\"coat. While she\u2019s over 45% Western varieties of cats, she also has some exotic blood from the Savannah and the Egyptian mau and quite a bit of Thai Siamese (the old-style Siamese cats we knew some fifty years ago\u2014the apple heads). Of all the wild cats, they say she most closely associates with the Cheetah. We can go along with that. Our little girl has speed like I\u2019ve never seen in a kitten before.<\/p>\n

\"\"And great news!!!! There are no signs of her being predisposed to any of the gene-induced diseases they test for. She\u2019s \u201cclear\u201d on all of them.<\/p>\n

How did I like dealing with BasePaws? It was interesting. It takes two to four weeks to get results (it was close to four for us). The report comes to your email address and it\u2019s quite extensive. I wanted to print\"\" it out to review off the computer. No can do. You can print it, but the entire thing doesn\u2019t come through. I\u2019m pretty sure that\u2019s because there are links and things designed for you to click and get additional information on line.<\/p>\n

T\"\"hey offer discounts fairly often. So if you\u2019re thinking about running your cat\u2019s DNA to learn more about her heritage and health markers, you could save twenty dollars if you\u2019re watchful. I believe I paid around $89 for Olivia\u2019s report.<\/p>\n

One thing we can be pretty sure of with regard to our little calico girl, she\u2019s probably going to be a big girl with Maine coon in her genetic pool and the Savannah (which is related to the African serval)\u2014a large and healthy cat. Already she\u2019s growing big fast. According to experts, a six month old kitten should weigh around 4-5 pounds. Olivia is just over six months old and she\u2019s pushing 7 pounds as we speak. Looking forward to many happy and healthy years with our beautiful, fun, affectionate, and smart cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I told you that I sent Olivia\u2019s swab to BasePaws Cat DNA testing. Well, I have received the report, and it\u2019s very interesting. I learned that there\u2019s some Maine coon in her heritage make-up as I suspected, also American shorthair … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4568,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions\/4568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}