inbreeding which matches together genetically similar individuals. This means a better chance of cats inheriting 2 recessive versions of a gene and new traits showing up as result - just as they did in the Barrington colony of cats. From a breeder viewpoint, it is sad that "recessive brown" has been lost. Shaw's descriptions indicate that it wasn't the same as caramel. Its effects on the wider palette of feline colours - torties, ticked and patterned tabbies, Burmese sepias, minks and colourpoints - can only be hypothesised. From time to time there are reports of odd colours in cats, including a tantalising "palomino" described as "the colour of a brown paper grocery bag" from the USA that might just have been the light tan noted by Shaw. SHAW'S TERMINOLOGY Modern feline geneticists use b/b for chocolate, but Shaw defined chocolate as d/d, because to him it was a dilution of black. Reading Shaw's work on black, chocolate and Barrington
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