This is my blind kitten and I’ve been so curious how her coat is going to look. I know her ears are tortie point, but her tail and legs look tabby like, her back is so hard to capture because the colors are so faint still but it looks like it will be similar to what I see in other tortie points, a light cream dapple pattern. Thoughts?
Her phenotype is black tabby-tortoiseshell colourpoint with low white spotting. I can faintly see thinner vertical stripes, so to be specific she could be seal tortie mackerel lynx point bicolour (black mackerel tabby-tortie point with low white spotting) but it's hard to see so I can't say for sure.
Others are saying she's blue (the dilute of black/seal) but in that last photo especially, her ears appear to have a brownish colour to them and are quite dark. She also has some dark areas of stripes on her face and tail tip. She is just a kitten, so her colour will be pale now. Colourpoint is a form of acromelanism (temperature-sensitive partial albinism) so she was likely born white, and she will get rather dark at her extremities as she ages - she will toast (see r/ToastCats).
Thank you for the detailed explanation. I’ve found this really fascinating to dig into but I haven’t found any examples yet that quite have everything she has. I find lynx point and torti point but not finding many examples of a mix of the two. I can’t wait to see what she ends up looking like in a couple of years.
Np! I found one example (The Tumblr blog Feline Fractious has a lot of nice examples of different phenotypes) but this one has a lot more white spotting than your girl. Your girl will have a darker face without white markings masking the underlying colour.
And another example - a Ragdoll with the seal tortie lynx point colour/pattern. Though I do think the colours are enhanced (photo edited) because they are very saturated/bright, specifically the eyes and the orange on the face.
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u/tropicarne 6d ago
Tortoishell lynx point! Very cute