The Toyger Facial Markings
One of the most exciting and certainly one of the most RARE features of the Toyger is their tiger like facial markings, or "temple" markings. I say rare because there are currently VERY VERY few Toygers in existence with these tigery facial stripes and markings. No other domestic breed in the world can lay claim to tigery facial and temple markings!!!!
A bit of history......Toyger breed creator, Judy Sugden has been working on this very special Toyger feature since the 1980's. With excruciating patience and a keen eye for details, Ms. Sugden has moved forward steadily in her selection process, building the facial stripes and temple markings one hair at a time to resemble the tigery face stripes. Now, some 20 years later we are seeing the spread of these facial markings in our breed that were selcted for and put into our breed. Although lightly pigmented, we know that it is genetic and it's being duplicated slowly. There are still many very exciting years ahead in this development but we are seeing strides being made with each passing year and each new litter. Again, very few breeders have this special Toyger trait as this time (2011) but in the future we will be seeing ALL Toygers with facial stripes when we acheive our ideal Toyger.
RomanToygers has been very fortunate to have several facial/temple marked Toygers in our breeding program. With each new selectively bred litter we are seeing more and more markings emerge. Several of our home bred Toyger cats are also passing on this trait more consistantly, such as CH. RomanToygers Palatium, our silver boy RomanToygers Totti of Toygerland in the USA.
ROMAN TOYGERS
Steve Garrett
Tel. +39 3400810471
We are a TICA registered cattery #18554
Steve Garrett
Tel. +39 3400810471
We are a TICA registered cattery #18554
