One Color Cats
Normally one color cats are consist of all white, all black or all red. White is a dominant masking gene. Although the cat has genes for other colors, white is the only color expressed visibly. A modifying gene dilutes the colour black to blue (or grey). Red is diluted to cream. The chocolate modifying gene changes black into chocolate and blue into lilac but has no effect on the red gene. Other modifying genes produces brown or cinnamon.
Cinnamon
Blue
Bicolor Cats
A two toned cat with a mix of red and black are tortoiseshells. The dilute is called blue-cream. The gene for black and red are carried on the X-chromosome, often called the sex chromosome. Female cats, like female human beings have two X genes, while normal male cats like male human beings have XY gene. That explains why most Calico cats are female. Very rare occasion where a Calico is a male cat unless the male cat has an extra X gene (meaning XXY).
Calico Blue-Cream
Talking about bicolors, some cats have white patch on their body such as:
- Lockets: Cats with white chest
- Mittens/Gloves: Cats with white feet
- Tuxedo: Cats with white paws, chest, belly and nose
- Van: All white except head and tail
With White Chest With White Feet
Van Tuxedo
Tabby
Tabby is a way to call a cat based on its' coat pattern. It can be combined with any variety of other coat colors and patterns. Tabbies come in 4 main patterns:
1. Mackeral Tabby
You may find mackeral tabby is the most most common coat patter among cats all over the world. They have 'M' on their foreheads and they have striped rings around their tail and legs, a line of necklace look pattern on surrounded the chest and bands of solid or broken stripes running down the side of their bodies.
2. Classic Tabby
Classic tabby also has an 'M' on their forehead. One thing make them different from the others is the whirls of 'bull's eye' patter on both side of their body. Most of the time, they have butterfly pattern across the shoulder, just like my Kusky & Kurimu.
3. Spotted Tabby
Spotted tabby has distinct spots arranged in lines reminiscent if a mackerel tabby patter.Examples of spotted tabby are: Ocicat and American Bobtail.
4. Flecked Tabby
Flecked tabby has distinct bands of color on them, breaking up the tabby patterning into a salt-and-pepper appearance. Good example of flecked tabby is Abyssinian.
Pointed
Good example of pointed cats are such as Siamese, Burmese or Himalayan cats. They have striking coat pointed pattern. The pointed cat has a pale body color with the head, tail and legs having darker color. Pointed kittens are born with 'white based' face and the color develops on the extremities over time.
Red Point Cat
Shaded or Smoke
This coat pattern occurs when an inhibitor gene causes color to be confined to the tip of the hair. If the amount of color is mostly on the tip of the hair, the color is called 'shaded'. If the color is more than halfway down the shaft, the cat is a 'smoke'. If the cat is a tabby, the inhibitor changes the base color of the tabby, producing a silver tabby. Kusky and Kurimu again are good example of shaded. Their color coat only appears on top of the hair. The hair is all white at the most bottom (nearest to the skin).
Same Color But Other Way of Calling
Red - Ginger, rust, yellow, orange, marmalade.
Cream - Buff, tan, blonde.
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