Thread: Should I get my kitten tested for HCM? 50% chance she has one gene

I have had three of my cats tested just as a matter of interest & will get the other three done too,again only out of interest because they are all pets not for breeding.
As you have lost a MC so young & this is obviously already playing on your mind I would say you are better going for it if not you are going to spend all your time looking at babe & worrying anyway,as you say 50/50 chance it will be negative but even if it is heterozygous it still has less chance of HCM anyway than if it was homozygous,also remember that at any time they could come up with yet another gene that could narrow things down even more.
If it is the "worst"then have words with your vet & see what he advices to help you enjoy your babe, there are a lot of good breeders who have put hetero to negatives but in turn will then use negative to negative so hopefully a bit further down the way all good breeders will only be using negative to negative but if they had all taken out their heterozygous girls at the start then the genetic breeding pool would have slumped so much that there would have been more problems of other kinds.
Difficult I know but whatever you decide will be right for you , have fun with your babe & post some photos for us to drool over please & keep us up to speed with what you decide....x