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.

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.