u/Gloomy-Trainer-2452

I've been researching feline coat genetics as a personal project/for fun and I'm currently looking at coat types. I understand there are a few genes associated with hairlessness and a lot associated with rexed fur, plus the Lykoi mutations and "wirehair".

I've also come across the term "fur-pointed" though. The term seems to be specifically used usually while talking about the Minskin breed. Because the Minskin breed comes from crossbreeding Munchkins with Burmese and later Sphynx and Devon Rex, I assumed the fur-pointed thing comes from hr (sphynx hairlessness) with some environmental/temperature and/or polygenic component, but Minskins seem to have whiskers while totally hairless sphynxes tend to lack them (is that selective breeding or do all cats with that sphynx allele lack whiskers?)

I heard somewhere that fur-pointed cats have one copy of the hairless allele and one rex (hr/re) but I haven't found any source supporting that claim.

Anyone know more about fur-pointed cats?

I'm using Genemod.

I changed a cat's eye colour to blue (first photo shows the only changes I made; I kept "Refraction": 10,), but upon opening the game again, got an error message and cannot open that clan.

Does anything look wrong? I referenced the Genemod eye colour document but maybe it was inaccurate and "sapphire" is wrong? I'm also sort of stupid lol and bad at coding so I don't even know what I did wrong.

Any advice appreciated.

Sorry this is a repost. I thought I'd delete my previous post and reupload with better photos.

Location: I am in NSW, Australia. However, I got this skull for free and we have no idea when or where it was originally acquired/sourced, so it could be from anywhere.

The incisors give rodent vibes, but it's obviously a lot bigger than a mouse or rat. It also has some sharp teeth, and it's very flat, so I know it's not a wallaby or kangaroo (too small for a roo anyway). I'm included every angle of the skull, and the last images show the size of it (in cm).

I'm confident with Felids, Canids, raccoons and opossums, but other than that I'm pretty terrible at skull ID, so I'm hoping someone here can help with IDing this one lol

It's a pretty cool find nonetheless.

Location: I am in NSW, Australia. However, I got this skull for free and we have no idea when or where it was originally acquired/sourced, so it could be from anywhere.

The incisors give rodent vibes, but it's obviously a lot bigger than a mouse or rat. It also has some sharp teeth. I'm confident with Felids, Canids and raccoons, but other than that I'm pretty terrible at skull ID, so I'm hoping someone here can help with that lol

I'll see if I can get some better photos too.

It's a pretty cool find nonetheless.

I've always thought he was okay, just a big boy with a deep chest and a prominent pouch, but now I'm second-guessing myself looking at old photos of him and old records of his weight. I know some cats do fill out/get bigger as they mature though, and even his brother's pouch has gotten more prominent and saggier lol. Vincent also has a lot of loose skin that bundles up around his elbows when he crouches down. He actually likes when I play around with his pouch and skin.

He's currently 6 years old (turning 7 this year) and weighs 5 kg (11 lbs). The lowest he's been during his adult life was at about 3-4 years of age when he was 4 kg (8.9 lbs).

I can still feel his bones easily, but his ribs do have a little extra padding compared to his brother's (his brother is a lean boy).

He looks chunky from the side, but he looks lean from above.

He can still groom himself very easily, he goes outside (supervised/controlled, not free-roaming), and he plays every day. He especially loves to jump. When we're playing with the cat wand/teaser I like to make it swoop up so he can leap after it. He also loves balloons. And he wrestles with his brother all the time.

He is a bit of a glutton I will say. He gets controlled portions of food because otherwise he'd eat himself to death. But I have been training him using treats as a reinforcer and giving occasional snacks, and he loves his Churu and Temptations. If he is overweight, it might just be a matter of cutting down on the snackies.

So what's the verdict? Just a big boy, or too big?

He's not the smartest cat, and he's not the bravest (he gets startled by people sneezing) but he's very sweet. He loves a cuddle. Realistically, I don't think he could survive without people/twolegs (he'd definitely be a kittypet) but he does love the outdoors and it's fun to imagine how he'd do in a warrior cats setting lol

He doesn't free-roam outdoors, but I'd imagine he would be a good hunter in a clan setting. He loves to jump, and he gets very into stalking. He loves watching the birds through the window, and during supervised outing watch bugs and stuff. I think he could catch birds with how he prefers jumping over chasing. He also likes to eat bugs and spiders lol

Found in the attic at work. Outer Sydney region, NSW. There are a lot of rats outside but this guy seemed too small to be a rat (about 8-10-ish cm long from nose to tail tip?) so maybe a mouse. I suppose it could be a juvenile though.

Sorry the photos of the skull are sort of shitty. My phone is old, the camera is bad, and the skull is very small so it's difficult to get the camera to focus on it.

Thought it was an interesting find!

(If you've seen this before that's because this was a reupload now that I've found better photos of the dentition/skull; I deleted my previous post)

Genemod kept crashing so I deleted and redownloaded it. Now on startup I've noticed "libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile". The application still works. Is this something to be concerned about?

Poor girl was hoping for a smaller litter too. At least they're cute?

One was stillborn but seven kits is still a huge litter. Not the most I've seen with modded litters turned on, but the most I've seen in a little while. Every other litter has just been a few kits at most.