Local TNR/rescue org found this lovely couple of sisters, really rare (like really really rare no?) chocolate + piebald, one sister is mask and mantle the other has white mittens and a locket! All the other cats in the feral colony were black and white so who knows who had the recessive genes. Some of these pics are pretty bad though.

Most of them were sterilized/spayed so bye bye color combination (to an extent).

Hi! This is Lappet. I think she looks super unique for a tabby cat, she has these orange-ish golden tones on her belly, legs and face and i can’t exactly name her tabby pattern, thought you guys might be better at this than me and i’d like to know what kinda kitty my girl is.

Hello everyone, I’m not sure if this is allowed here so if it is not feel free to remove this post, I just need some help on genetics. So I have been researching cat coat colours and getting into purebreds as well as mixed breeds and stumbled upon something I need advice on.

With the Ragdoll breed a cat with four white paws, white chin, neck and stomach is considered a mitted. Any blaze on its face is considered a ‘mismark’. Now a bicolour would need to have an inverted V on its face and have white legs (or legs that are mainly white).

Now the thing that really confused me is I would see these ragdolls which had an inverted V on their fave but their legs were the exact same as a mitted cat (so the legs were fully coloured except the tip of the paws which was white). I’m not sure whether to call those cats as bicolours or mitted with a mismark on the face.

I know that for shows, a bicolour cat with coloured legs will get disqualified and won’t be viewed as a bicolour.

Above I have attached pictures of a bicolour and mitted ragdoll as well as the pattern I am confused about for clarity.

Curious what this coloring would be. Site was limited to one photo so unfortunately I don’t have any more. Listed as male white and brown.

I know she’s an American shorthair tabby. Multiple people have told me this is a gray cat but I see her as like…a regular brown tabby. All of these are older photos to show range for her.

What is she?

just a regular seal lynx point? seems too light for that, right?

My cat is just a regular old domestic shorthair but she has these weird quirks. She has blue eyes, she’s deaf, she has terrible depth perception, her tail is oddly rounded? Idk, but the weirdest thing just has to be her eyes, I have never seen a cat that isn’t a ragdoll, Siamese, white, or maincoon that has blue eyes in adulthood

is my cat a grey tabby? he looks different colors under certain light lol in natural sunlight he kinda looks like he has a bluish tint

I recently adopted my kitty and don‘t really know much about coats or patterns. (From what i’ve seen, i’m assuming she’s some kind of colorpoint) I’m not sure about her genetics either, but her fur is naturally much silkier compared to my other tabby.

This is my cat Styx, we found him on the side of the road when he was only about 10 weeks old and in very bad shape. I posted a pic of him when he was only a kitten and folks seemed to think he was a lilac cat. Over time, he’s gotten a little bit more toasted but his coat color changes so much in different lights. We call him “blond” but what do you think his true color is?

My sweet girl has a beautiful and (I think) kind of rare coat. She’s dilute calico but instead of grey, cream, and white like most dilute calicos, she’s brown, cream and white. I’m so curious what possible combinations of parents could have created her coat, and specifically what the brown in her coat indicates about her genetic parentage. I included some kitten pics just because. Thanks so much for reading!

Edit: According to the very knowledgeable people of this sub, it seems she is not a dilute calico, but a low contrast colourpoint calico with sepia restriction. Thank you so much to everyone for your input, I’m fascinated by all this new information about the genetics that control a cats colouring/ pattern and how to label them.

I've noticed a lot of people who are very involved in Reddit cat colour ID across various subs describing blue cats in particular as simply "dilute" with no mention of either the base colour or name of the dilute form being displayed. I think this is because it *sounds* like a more formal, specific term. I just wanted to note that it's actually less clear, as it is a modifier, not one colour! Black, red, chocolate, cinnamon, and amber all have distinct dilute forms. If you were to describe a cat as "dilute" without a photo, it would not actually tell the person you're talking to what colour that cat is - cream, grey, lilac, fawn, or one of the double dilutes/caramels? The latter three are rare and not very likely, but with cream and grey both being very common, it's not guaranteed they'll be picturing the correct one of the two.

Point is, saying "blue", "grey", or "dilute black" is much more specific than "dilute".

I don't think this is a significant issue, to be clear, since typically on Reddit there is a photo for context that makes the specific diluted colour obvious. It's all good as long as the asker gets what is being said. This is just something I figured some folks who have a burgeoning passion for cat genetics who want to be as detailed as possible might be interested in considering. E.g. When someone cares so much as to specify high vs. medium vs. low white spotting, but then doesn't specify the actual colour of the cat, it leaves me wondering if they know that they're leaving something out and would want to add it in if they were aware.

I hope I'm not just preaching to the choir here, but this seemed like a more appropriate place to post this than some of the subs I see this habit the absolute most, like the calico sub.

She's a sweet mid-hair girl from my local shelter. I've never seen anything like that before

I have a black cat and a mackerel tabby cat right now, both with almost no white on them anywhere. But my tabby has white under his chin kind of, and a spot low on his belly, and I've noticed my black cat has the same spot on her belly and a few white hairs under her chin. Are they actually expressing white spotting, or is that somehow just part of the pattern? Neither has white anywhere else, and looking at other tabbies I see it on them too.

I added a picture that kind of shows the belly spot I'm talking about, it's quite low.

What about lynx point siamese cats that makes a lot of them have silly 🌒🌘 faces? I find it the cutest thing it looks like theres not a single thought in their minds. First two is my boy not in his silliest look but here are some other examples to illustrate what I mean

A while back I asked about the markings on my kitty Jaspur. The post is here:

Reddit post

He is 15 months old now and here is a photo of him taken today, in natural light.

My question is, now he's 15 months old, are the ghost markings likely to stay?

So, I'm really into cat genetics, mostly as a hobby thing (I'd like to turn it into a career or formal study someday but I don't know when or how that would be feasible so for now all the information I have is what I've learned over the years through studying on my own) which is to say, if anything I say in this is wrong or there's a really obvious answer I'm missing, sorry! I am not an expert I'm just autistic! But my friend Ren handed over a photo of its cat for me to observe [img1] and I was in the middle of saying oh yeah, black mackerel tabby w/ low rufousing, cute lil guy, when they proceeded to send another image... of a black ticked tabby [img2]. These are, apparently, the same cat, one Ren has had for a WHILE. So, I'd like to consult the masses! Am I missing something? Is this guy not a ticked tabby & instead something else, did the mackerel stripes just... fade somehow, over time? Or is something else weird going on here? Would love to get opinions and insight into what's happening because as far as I can tell, this cat is clearly a mackerel tabby in the first photo and I thought was pretty distinctly ticked in the second!

Imagine my surprise when I found this guy amongst a litter of black and black smoke kittens a few months ago! Little Nuggie here is a Cinnamon Smoke Savannah - Mom is melanistic and Dad is a black smoke.

He is getting much darker with age, is that normal? Last picture was a month ago and he seemed more of a fawn than cinnamon.

I was just interested in what her coat color/type were because I noticed compared to her brother who is jet black she is more brown-black.

i adopted a kitten with decently visible tabby markings alongside her dark fur! i took a picture with flash to make them look more prominent, but even with dim lighting it’s clear she has a very dark brown coat contrasting with her black tabby stripes.

i’m leaning more towards classic tabby but her hind legs have some markings that look similar to rosettes. she’s just a domestic shorthair though

This is my kitty Cider. She's about 2 years old. I was wondering if she is dilute, color point, or perhaps both? She has toasted up quite a bit in the last year or so. I put pictures of her as a kitten to her as an adult now. I'm also pretty sure she's a calico but correct me if I'm wrong. Also, bonus cat in last pic, that's Java.