Meet Highway

Rosie’s chocolate daughter, known here as Highway, and the first cat born under our own prefix that we have kept. She was born here on 25 May 2026, in our first British Shorthair litter.

• Breed/colour: British Shorthair — chocolate (BSH b)
• Born: 25 May 2026
• Sire: GRCH HENBRITS TOPGUN MAVERICK (BSH o) · Dam: RAYANSHEL WHOLE-LOTTA-ROSIE (BSH n)
• GCCF registered
• PKD1 Normal by parentage — both parents DNA tested PKD1 Normal at Langford Vets (University of Bristol)
• Blood type B — both her parents are type B, so every kitten in that litter is

The first one we kept

Every kitten we breed is meant to leave. That is the arrangement, and most of this website exists to explain it properly to the people they are leaving with.

Highway is not leaving.

The reason has more to do with her mother than with her. Rosie turned out to be the sort of queen you want more of, and the shortest route to more of her is to keep a daughter and wait. I have written about how Rosie was in her first week as a mother on her own page, and that week is most of the answer.

Her colour needed both parents. Her father is cinnamon and her mother carries chocolate, so she came out chocolate and carrying cinnamon herself. That is the sort of thing you only find out by doing it, and it is one of the reasons a first litter is interesting even when it is small.

What we know at twelve weeks, and what we do not

I judge this breed, so I will be honest about the limits of what anyone can tell you about a kitten this age, including me.

At twelve weeks you can see colour, coat texture, bone, and the beginnings of a head. You can see health. You can see a good deal of temperament, because temperament shows early and changes less than people expect. What you cannot see is the adult cat. British Shorthairs mature slowly and are still filling out at three, and plenty of kittens that look ordinary at twelve weeks come right at eighteen months while the showiest one in the litter plateaus.

So anything I told you now about how she will turn out would be a guess dressed up as expertise. What I can say is that Highway is bold, that she is first to investigate anything new in the room, and that she has her mother’s habit of sitting next to you rather than on you.

Her health, and where it comes from

Both her parents are DNA tested PKD1 Normal at Langford, which makes her PKD1 Normal by parentage. That is a real result rather than a hopeful one: PKD is a single gene with a definitive test, and two Normal parents cannot produce an affected kitten.

Both parents are also blood type B, which is why every kitten in that litter is type B without anybody needing to guess. Blood typing matters in British Shorthairs in a way it does not in every breed, and it is the reason we type before a mating rather than after one.

We do not heart scan, and we say so rather than leaving it quietly off the list. The full reasoning, including what the GCCF’s own breeding policy says about it, is on our health and genetics page.

What happens next

Nothing, for a long while. Highway will not be mated until she is fully grown, and as above, this breed takes its time about that.

She may never be bred from at all. Pets first is the rule here, so if she turns out not to be right for it she simply stays as a pet, which from her point of view is not much of a demotion.

You can see the other girls on our girls page, and if you are here because you are looking for a kitten, start with kitten information.