Sittingpretty Magnum Opus

Sire/Dam: Sittingpretty Ozzy x Poshpaws Fizzy Lizzy Of Sittingpretty

Generation/Registration code: F7 SBT

Colour/Pattern: Black Silver spotted

Date Of Birth: 16/03/2014

Magnum is an F7 SBT Silver spotted Bengal boy. He has a fabulous pedigree with a long line of Champions and rare (to the UK) Bluewater lines. He will play an important role in my future silver line as I believe him to be homozygous for silver.

Magnum is a large and well muscled boy. He is nicely proportioned and has a particularly fabulous short and thick tail. His colouring is just beautiful with a pure white background contrasted against two toned markings. He boasts a mix of paw print, doughnut and arrowhead rosetted spots. He has a great flow of pattern to his spotting which continues all the way down his legs and feet. His coat is beautifully clear and glittered with almost no tarnish. Magnum does not have a perfect head shape but he does have rounded contours, small ears, good eye shape, a wide nose bridge and puffy whisker pads. His vibrant yellow green eyes with thick black eyeliner and puffy brick red nose leather are set off against his ghostly white facial colouring giving him a very striking look.

Magnum is a very sweet natured boy with huge affection. He is always at the front of his pen to greet me and he will always hang around until he recieves a kiss on the head.

Magnum as a baby:

Below is four generations of Magnum's pedigree:

Sittingpretty Ozzy (F6)	Silverglam Gandalf The Grey Of Sittingpretty	Silverglam Midnight Lover	DGC Silverglam Silver Shadow
			Wildside Glitterglam Gina
		Silverglam Black Magic	Glitterglam Bohemian Rhapsody
			Silverglam Sapphire
	Blackrock And All That Jazz Of Sittingpretty	QueenAnne Pendragon	CH Calcatta Supernatural
			Llander Ceris
		Gayzette Enchantress	Cattichrome Bullet
			Gayzette Silver Birch
Poshpaws Fizzy Lizzy Of Sittingpretty (F7)	QGC Bluewater It's A Steel	CH VictoryBengals Steely	Pinyonpride Bullet
			VictoryBengals Taylor Made
		Lakewood Platinum	Spotsalot Wht Whizard
			CH Lakewood Carolina
	Poshpaws Peppa Of Sittingpretty	RW SGC Jungletime Hotshot	RW SGC TheRealms Try Me Now
			TheRealms Just As Silk
		SGC Xclusive Pussycat Doll	RW SGC Jater Houdini
			CH Jater Queen Latifah

Magnum is registered ACTIVE with The International Cat Association:

Magnum is PK Def N/K HOMOZYGOUS which means he is positve for PK Def.
This is not a result we expected but following the advice of Langfords Veterinary Services*, we have to decided to breed down from him in the hope of keeping back a N/K kitten and then breed that cat once mature to a normal cat to produce an N/N kitten to keep for our breeding program. Magnum continues to have health checks and is in excellent condition:

Magnum is PRA-b NORMAL:

* "Whilst it is preferable not to breed from affected cats in the medium to longer term, in order to preserve the 'good genes' from affected cats it is permissible to breed affected cats with normal cats (no copies of the defective gene). This does not risk producing any affected kittens, but will produce carrier cats. These carrier cats can then be bred to other normal cats, thereby producing more cats that are normal and do not carry the defective gene".