r/CatGenetics

This is Opal! Shelter said she looks like a ragdoll snowshoe mix. I'd love to know more about her coat. I've never seen a kitty like her before!

someone told me to post her in here as her colouring is unique !

update: have added some more photos that i’ve got

she’s a maincoon/bengal mix, (she’s a handful that loves to talk)🤣🤣 not sure if she’s got anything else in her.

10 weeks old now!
There is a slight red-ish hue to his coat that seems to be coming through more.
His eyes took unusually long to turn from kitten blue but now seem to be heading toward green.
He has also been officially adopted by me last weekend 🎉 and is getting along with my 3 year old flame point girl great.

A few months ago, I made a post asking if anyone had ideas on how to predict the coat colors for some 2-week old kittens that were born at my job. Well… I couldn’t resist and two of those kittens have been home with me ever since. I thought I’d give an update on their coat colors now that they’re older — it seems like the dark coats ended up being a solid black and the one lovely lighter coat seems to be chocolate. They’re now about 13 weeks old have been the sweetest babies ❤️

What is going on with this kitten up for adoption near me? Is he fawn? Buff? Cream & blue? He has this strange colour, he looks too grey to be buff but too orange to be Fawn. He looks almost like a dirty buff, his paws and tail get quite greyish, but the stripes on his head are very visible and very orangish, even though he doesn’t seem to be a tabby if he is fawn. His paws and nose are VERY pink and his eyes are yellow.

As you can tell, I have one cat with deep red pupils instead of the usual black. I’ve never seen it in a cat before, so I would love to know more, thank you!

I’m fascinated by the science behind my cat's unique look and want to understand—in layman's terms—how it happens. I know it comes down to a split-second pause during embryonic development—like a 'door slamming shut' on specific migrating pigment cells while the rest of the cells keep moving. But just how rare is that timing anomaly? Now, stack that with her 'blue-on-blue' eye (a dominant blue eye with absolutely no white fur touching it), a trait mirroring the extinct Ojos Azules breed and recent DBE lineages like the Celestial, Altai, and Topaz. Plus, she’s primarily a dilute long-haired calico, tortie, and tabby mosaic, but with striking spots of non-dilute orange (a caliby-tortico). Does anyone else have a cat with these kinds of stacked rarities? I’d love to connect with their person and talk cat genetics!

What colour would you class this girl?

sorry i dont have better photos. shes still as her foster’s until her spay next week. they were kind enough to take the second photo for me. she looks like she could be a smoke to me? with her stripey legs but almost no head stamp. ive seen that the light bits around her eyes could indicate smoke. also the way her coat looks like she has a lighter color underneath. im just really curious what she could be, this is my first cat!

Black one’s name is Boots and the Calico’s name is Callie (very original I know 🤣)

Also what might their babies look like because I think she’s pregnant 🤦‍♀️ If she ends up having kittens I’ll share them here later

(btw they are barn cats and I don’t have much of a say about them, if I did they would have been fixed by now)

This is Toby. I know Toby is a tabby, but beyond that I've always struggled to explain exactly what her coat pattern is. I'm wondering what genes could be interacting with the tabby pattern to produce this appearance, which I've never been able to find in another cat online or even describe properly. Thoughts?

Hi, I was referred to this sub from another to get some insight into my new DSH kitty’s unusual coat. She’s a former stray (no chip, not spayed, no owners found) so we decided to give her a home. She has maybe the most unusual coat I’ve ever seen on a cat. She has white fur with gray/black tips on her back, and her chest/belly is orange. She has tabby stripes and spots on her sides (almost look like rosettes), and she has solid black toe beans (not tortoiseshell).

Can anyone provide some insight into her genetic makeup and how a coat like this comes about? At first I thought she was a tabbico but she’s so uniformly gray on top but gold on bottom with solid toes. I can’t imagine what her parents would have to look like!

According to AI, my cat’s coat color is a bicolor torbie. Honestly a lot of people ask me if Miffy is a ragdoll because of her coloring. I wanted to touch base with actual humans (lol) to hear thoughts about her coat, and what the odds are for strays to get this coat coloring in the wild.

Her backstory is she was found hiding in a bush at 4 weeks old (see last two pictures) and was fostered by my friend until last week! Excited to have her home with me :)

I recently brought home another kitten from this litter and I’m strongly considering going back for him as well. Sorry for the poor pictures, but I was just screenshot it what I could find. Showing the markings on the face, legs, and tail.

She’s a rescue from the streets of Florida so nothing is know about her. They didn’t even find any siblings or mother, she was alone at four weeks 🤷‍♀️

She’s solid brown no stripes, brownish pink nose, brownish pink toes, brown whiskers that lighten a bit at the ends

She’s also weirdly long? And her feet are like hands, I think they’re called like monkey paws? Really long toes and she’s really dexterous

Also she’s got quite a nose, like a long muzzle, harder to see from the front but from the side she has a honker of a nose. She looks like a dog sometimes especially compared to my sister’s ragdoll’s muzzle

She’s very attached she follows me everywhere, very cuddly, she talks back when I tell her no. She sounds like a Pokémon bc she never learned to meow so she either makes alien trill noises or a silly squeak

i put in an adoption/hold inquiry for this little fella and his solid black shorthair brother! he looks like a solid lilac with ghost classic markings to me but i want more opinions 😸 regardless hes adorable and unique! * by stray i mean he was found as a stray! hes currently being fostered

This stinky baby stumbled into our lives today. She is astoundingly adorable and a complete crackhead. Best of all though, she’s a smoke tuxedo! I have never seen or heard of one before her so I’m wondering if anyone else has one like her? It’s really cool how she’s got a gradient to her, her butt and face are darker than the rest of her.