I feel like a high-black classic tabby DSH fits, but his stripes have a slightly paler inside portion under good lighting. Also curious about rufousing and such!
He was born august 8th. It kinda looks like a fever coat, but also a bit like smoke? We know for sure mom isn't/wasn't sick or under stress, so I'm not sure? He was born this way, just black with lighter areas. Mom is standard black ticked, dad is silver lilac ticked. Also, I just LOVE his little cheek stripes, what are those?
thought yall might find this cool! barn cat in MN, USA. black mackerel tabby with low white… with some blue tabby patching :D too skittish for me to handle enough to see how extensive it was, but there were spots across the back and shoulder, on the face, and a very noticeable one on the front left foreleg. sorry for the quality of pictures— again, pretty skittish!
otherwise a very normal cat with a great personality.
I was trying to look at charts online to determine what "flavor"/"type" of tabby my 16-17 year-old cat is, but I wasn't able to figure it out. I assume she is some kind of mackerel pattern, but the stripes are faded in some places. Can tabbies be a combo of patterns? I figured the people on this Reddit know a lot more about cat genetics and coat types than I do.
Some parts of her look orange, but I'm not sure if this is "actually" orange (like genetically) or just a different shade of brown.
I tried to include as many angles as possible because she is extremely asymmetrical haha
What do you think? Feel free to educate me, i do not know a lot about cat genetics. I have had her for 14-15 years. I love her
Hello im wondering if anyone can give me a idea of what my female cats parents might of looked like or maybe what type of cat they would be I was told by my veterinarian that my female cat is a ticked tabby which could mean that shes a possible torby but im not a 100% sure this is what she looks like she has lots of orange and beige and black on her but they are not in patches more blended and she has a m on her forhead with lots of colouring on her face and ears her toes pads are also different colours some are pink and some are black
Ive had him since when he was born but i didn’t know what type of cat the mom was. The mom was pretty much a fluffier version of this one. We got the cat from my mom’s friend and the cat was already pregnant when we took her but I just want to know what kind of cat or breed he is.
I'm not sure, if I hit the flair spot on, or not, but I have this medium-longhair lynx point girl, approx 2 months old. I was checking her for ringworm with shortwave UV and all her undercoat fluoresces orange. I've never seen this before, neither has my vet. WHY DOES SHE GLOW LIKE A FANCY ROCK? I've looked closer, it's not the skin, the skin remains blueish/normal colour
I have gotten SO much back and forth about whether or not my Onyx is black smoke or not, so I’m bringing her to the experts (Reddit lmao).
Age: 17.5 weeks
Undercoat / Roots: NO white or silver, YES gray.
(getting this main point out right away)
There ARE silvery roots in some spots, but only where her gray highlights / sections are, other sections are definitely DARK gray* (closer to black than silver)
*See 4th pic
Photo Timeline: anywhere between 12-17.5 weeks
Ear furnishing: Silver
Underbelly, back of legs, under tail, chest: Gray or silver
Ghost stripes: 100%
I know I know, no stark white roots, no black smoke. That’s what I’ve been thinking too, but I’ve had a lot of people counter this and say it may be because of her adult fur tips coming in dilute it or that she’s a deep black smoke. Not sure, would love your opinion!
so now they're a bit older i'd love to get some updated opinions on what people think about the genetic history of these two!
the my're abt 8 months now and i's say mostly fully grown, from the same litter and were adopted together. their mother was a long/medium hair calico streetcat and we have no info on their dad - possibly wishful thinking but i want to say they could have some ragdoll or pedigree history
main differences between them is their size - twyla (the calico) is the biggest cat ive ever had lol. shes 5.1kg as of this morning while miette (grey and white tabby) is only 4.6kg (tho our scale is kind of shit so take those numbers with a grain of salt)
they're both definitely getting a bit chunky tho so that's something i'm working on🫡
twyla's got coarser fur while miette's is still kitten-soft - possibly she hasn't grown into her adult coat yet but she already had a shedding period and some fur change? so i'm thinking (and hoping) she stays this soft! miette's more fluffy on her cheeks/neck too with her big white ruff (which makes her look like the bigger one in some photos but i swear she's the baby sister) twyla doesn't have the rough but she's more fluffy on her backside/tail
also very different personalities - twyla's a shoulder cat (owie) and a cuddlebug, miette prefers to be beside you rather than on you and doesn't love being picked up/have her feet off the ground. miette also has like absolutely no defense mechanism she will not display any form of discontent if you do something she doesnt like she'll just freeze up and stare. also love to be pet ROUGH while twyla will tell you if you're crossing her boundaries (not aggressive but a light swat/nip, miette will literally just take it)
theyre still best friends and both very screamy <3
This is Aries.
He is a shorthair (L?) Apricot (XY/dd/Dm?) mackerel tabby (Mc?) tom with low white spotting (Wsw)
While I understand all of that, I have been staring at this cat for a decade now and I cannot figure out what is causing this phenomenon with his tail.
His tail, as seen in the picture, fades perfectly from apricot at the base to white at the tip. I am hesitant to believe this is caused by White Spotting as it isnt an abrupt marking and is instead faded softly. Not to mention that the stripes on his tail are still visible even at the whitest parts.
He is approximately 15 years old and has had this pattern his entire life so it isn’t something new, and it’s only localized on his tail.
Im just curious as to what could possibly be causing it. Or if maybe this is more common than I had originally thought.
Milo’s breeder classified him as a red tabby with white. He has some tabby characteristics; his head has tabby markings, and two of his legs have some stripes. The rest of his coat is randomly spotted with several dark red areas. Is this evidence of red-silver dappling? Please let me know what you think!
Larimar is an island mutt, so it’s really anybody’s guess at what’s going on in those genes. The last 2 photos are of what she looked like in Puerto Rico, the rest is what she looked like after she toasted from moving over 1000 miles North. So far we’ve gotten lynx point Siamese, tabico, and dilute tortoiseshell. Who’s got any guesses?
Recently adopted this sweetheart rescue who was from a cat colony. Was wondering if this coat pattern is just described as tortie with less of the red or some other word? Thanks all!
this is chewbacca. shes a domestic long hair but i have no idea what color to call her. shes got some white, black, brown, grey, and orange fur. she also has some orange/white striped legs and some orange stripes throughout her body.
edit: the mom is an all white domestic shorthair and the dad is a calico
Hi everyone!!
I adopted my little Bretzel from a local shelter 2 weeks ago and I am wondering what colour she is? She's got a white toe with pink toe pad under it, and the other toe pads are brown mixed with pink. Her points are dark brown and there are dark little spots on her whiskers.
I was advised to come check this page out for help! She is only 3 months old so I don't know how well we can already tell but let me know if you have an idea, thank you!!
based off of what i’ve read here in this sub would he be considered a Black Smoke Tabby Tuxedo? I know this is probably a dumb question but i’ve always wanted to know 🤣
he also has black and pink toe beans which is so cute 😭
This is my baby, Pumpkin. Despite being a tabby, she is very orange in coat and character. She has the most unique coat I’ve ever seen on a cat. I’ve been trying to figure out exactly how to describe it. The ticked torbies seem to lose their stripes around the midsection. I can see her stripes just fine, but I can confirm each piece of fur has 3 colors. So, still ticked or nah?
Spotted in Mexico City again (I'm in a ton of rescue Facebook groups). Kitten with a pretty large white spotting (?) mark on the back. Never seen anything like it, thought white migrated from the toes upwards during fetal development.
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?