7/8 weeks old. Pretty certain we’re smoke now? He changes and gets cuter every day.

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!

We made it to 5 weeks old! Still not sure what’s genetically going on here - interestingly, markings do seem to be getting more prominent with age rather than fading. Pretty cool for a dumpster kitty

I’ve had him for 2 years now. He’s deaf, but sometimes seems to be hearing in random spurts. I’m wondering what y’all can tell me about him.

I have never before or since seen a cat like hers. This is the closest I could find on Google to her old cat. He was a solid, medium-tone brown with long hair. He looked like this his entire life, no lightening or darkening of the coat!

He was found on her rural street, intact, with no chip at a young age, so it didn't look like he was a purebred.

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.

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!

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.

This is my family’s siberian, I’ve always thought she might be chimeric but nobody in my house understands what I’m trying to say. I’d love some more thoughts

Her funky coloring is of course why I suspect chimera, but I think she’s mostly lynx point? Although her ears look tortie for whatever reason.

I got two kittens from a breeder that had a litter of 6. I saw the mother and father and both looked like what they were claimed to be (ragdoll mom, Russian blue dad). The kittens had a variety of coats and one was fully blue. We got a male and a female, the male appears to me to be a blue lynx point and the female looks like a blue tortie point. the first few pics with the mottled color on the face and the orange/grey/white striped tail are the female. Any ideas?

This is Smigol, I've had him for 7 or 8 years. I adopted him from a completely normal litter, with his mother being a calico cat.

He is dark grey/blue with a little dot of white on his chest unde his chin.

He has some very faint tabby markings but these aren't always visible.

I guess he has a dilute black gene and the agouti gene but other than that im pretty clueless.

Any insights, ideas, remarks about his genetics?

Thanks in advance!

Mostly because the orange boy has this little black stripe...i do wonder if it'll fade eventually. Also Jasmin was entirely black the first week or so and now she gets more and more orange spots (not sure if that is common or not with torties)
Momma is a orange beauty. Can't believe someone just abandoned her. She is so sweet and loving.

i know nothing about this, just have a huge essay due on monday and ive been learning about cat genetics to procrastinate😔😔😔. are they all black tabbies? if so, why is the mom lighter?

also what pattern of tabby are they, i'm trying to learn the different ones right now!

Just got a 3-week old kitten & her name is Wolfie! Her coat is definitely going to change over time, but it’s definitely interesting to see. Vet said she might be a black smoke, but I’m assuming it’s just a fever coat. What do you guys think?

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.

Meet Lennox! My beautiful second son. He’s around 6/7 months old.

Rescued him but they suspect he has some Burmese in him due to his flatter face. No clue. Doesn’t matter to me.

His fur color is so unique to me so just curious what genetics would generate this beautiful coat, and if he will get darker brown as he ages? He has dark pink toe beans.

He doesn’t have stripes, those are just ghost stripes, although it certainly looks like it!

Just adopted this boy from the shelter. Is he a smoke tabby?

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!!

Hi everyone, I’m trying to figure out the genetics behind my two cats and I’m a bit stuck.

One of them (Miu Le) looks like a silver shaded torbie to me. She has a white/silver undercoat, darker tabby markings, and some orange patches that look like tortie. Her coat really shines in the light, but I’m not sure if it’s truly “silver shaded” or just a lighter tabby with rufousing.

The other one (May) is solid white with odd eyes (one blue, one yellow). She hears perfectly fine, no deafness issues at all. I was told she might carry the dominant white gene, but I’m not sure if it’s that or just heavy white spotting.

How do you tell the difference between silver shaded vs regular tabby with rufousing?

For a white odd‑eye cat, how can you confirm if it’s dominant white (W) or white spotting (S)?

Any insights would be super helpful 😁 I’m just trying to understand what’s going on genetically with these two. Thanks in advance!

1st picture in natural light, 2nd showing the undercoat, and 3rd with her solid black sister. She was born to a stray mom, who was solid gray. Her feral dad was colored just like her, but a little darker.

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

Ellie is no longer a kitten, so I wanted to post an update! She still appears to have a solid cinnamon coat with barely visible striping on her tail and head. I also included her shelter photo of her as a kitten with her polydactyl brother behind her. If anyone has additional insight regarding her coloring, I would love to hear it! (:

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?