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About the Havana

Havana
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No breeder is on record here yet. Portugal’s FIFe member club does not list this breed in its breeder directory at all, so an absence here says nothing about whether anyone breeds it in Portugal.

Registry status
Recognised by TICA
Known hereditary risks
1 documented condition, with the test for each

About

Nothing written about this breed yet. The hereditary risks are sourced — read those.

Pros & cons

Pros & cons for the Havana

What you get with the Havana

Nobody has written this side yet. It is a judgement rather than data, so it waits for a person — not for a missing source.

What you are taking on

  • One serious inherited condition is documented, in eyes. The health guide tab has the test to ask a breeder for.

Drawn from sources rather than written as an opinion — cited health research, the registry’s own standard, and peer-reviewed longevity. UC Davis VGL — PRA rdAc (Abyssinian), breed list includes Havana Brown. One breeder’s animals can differ from any of it, and an empty column means we hold nothing for that side rather than that there is nothing to say.

Characteristics

Breed-level information from The Cat API. It describes the Havana in general; any individual animal can differ.

Health guide

Health & screening guide for the Havana

Known hereditary risks for the Havana breed, and the specific documentation to request from any breeder before paying a deposit. A responsible breeder will have these readily available; deflection is a red flag.

1 condition documented

Health checklist (PDF)

Eyes

Progressive retinal atrophy (rdAc / CEP290)

Serious

A recessive CEP290 mutation causes late-onset, progressive blindness: affected cats have normal vision at birth that degenerates from around seven months of age, usually reaching blindness between three and five years old. First characterised in the Abyssinian and Somali, but UC Davis Veterinary Genetics Laboratory's own test page states the variant has also been detected directly in the Havana Brown.

What to ask for

PRA-rdAc (CEP290) DNA test on both parents

1 source

Gallery

No photographs yet

This is where Havana owners’ own photographs will go, from the pet profiles they keep here. Nobody has added one to a public page yet.

A photograph in a pet profile stays private to its owner. We will not put one here unless they ask us to.

Kittens

No kittens listed right now

No Havana breeder has a record on this platform yet, so there is nothing to list. That is a gap in our coverage, not a fact about the breed.

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