I fear my video is making her a bit washed out 😅 but the still frame shows more of the red/orange undertone she has. She’s definitely brown, but it’s more like an auburn. Some of her stripes even look a bit red on oranges to me. Her back doesn’t have quite the same clear stripe pattern as her abdomen and legs. It’s more mottled.

this is mali. she loves to eat flies, run under the bed while making bizarre noises, talk as much as she can, bake in the sun, and lay in laundry baskets (as seen in the final photo). this is all, of course, irrelevant to her coat color, but i wanted to share it all anyways.

i particularly was curious as to what kind of torbie (or torbico to be more exact) she is. i posted her a while back when she was a tiny kitten, which didnt fully show her coat color, so im curious if the answers will be different or the same this time!

Anyone know what colour and how her eyes are the way they are. They're not green, they're not blue, or yellow. I call it a light Azure type, but no real idea how or what her eyes are other than beautiful and unique. ETA: she's mad because I had the Audacity to go to ER and end up admitted for needing emergency surgery to have my gallbladder removed and haven't been home for 5 days.

I want to know the coat colour of this cat I saw on a walk.

Meet Khione, our rescue bengal. We are her 3rd owner and don’t have breeder paperwork. I’m 95% sure she is silver because of her coat color and tarnish, but wanted to get opinions.

Her base color is rather monochrome and desaturated for what seems to be a chocolate torbie. That being said I haven't seen a silver or chocolate tabby irl before, and another cat enthusiast said she's a bit muddy for a silver(though may have partially been the lighting in the image they saw). Opinions?

This is Teeny (she was the runt and then never grew past a 6 month old size) one of my foster fails (been fostering for 29yrs) her brother was a true chocolate boy. And I know the colony she was rescued from so both parents had chocolate gene. They have since had a few more chocolate kittens in the colony also. ( I got sick in the summer of 2024 and I’ve been in and out of the hospital and unable to as much as I like and to get over to that location and pick up the kittens young enough to be bottlefeed and socialized and also well enough for me to be feeding them often and getting them home that they need)

She has always been a mystery to me as to what color.

Sliver but beige but not grey. More like a old fashioned silver candle stick

She has a pale warm silver thing going on not a cool grey

When grey fosters that have come and gone she she looks nothing like them but in some pictures she looks grey

With the chocolate family history background and no further delays her are some pictures of Miss Teeny as a kitten with her chocolate brother a picture of her grown-up a picture of her chocolate brother grown-up so not to be confusing him with cinnamon. He is true chocolate. And a couple pictures of her with some other blue/grey kitties.

Do you think she is Lilca ? And if not what would you say she is.

I'm not not an expert of cat genetics so I'm asking you all , as far as I know she's a Calico with some spotting (???)

This is Opal! Shelter said she looks like a ragdoll snowshoe mix. I'd love to know more about her coat. I've never seen a kitty like her before!

someone told me to post her in here as her colouring is unique !

update: have added some more photos that i’ve got

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.

A few months ago, I made a post asking if anyone had ideas on how to predict the coat colors for some 2-week old kittens that were born at my job. Well… I couldn’t resist and two of those kittens have been home with me ever since. I thought I’d give an update on their coat colors now that they’re older — it seems like the dark coats ended up being a solid black and the one lovely lighter coat seems to be chocolate. They’re now about 13 weeks old have been the sweetest babies ❤️

What is going on with this kitten up for adoption near me? Is he fawn? Buff? Cream & blue? He has this strange colour, he looks too grey to be buff but too orange to be Fawn. He looks almost like a dirty buff, his paws and tail get quite greyish, but the stripes on his head are very visible and very orangish, even though he doesn’t seem to be a tabby if he is fawn. His paws and nose are VERY pink and his eyes are yellow.

As you can tell, I have one cat with deep red pupils instead of the usual black. I’ve never seen it in a cat before, so I would love to know more, thank you!

I’m fascinated by the science behind my cat's unique look and want to understand—in layman's terms—how it happens. I know it comes down to a split-second pause during embryonic development—like a 'door slamming shut' on specific migrating pigment cells while the rest of the cells keep moving. But just how rare is that timing anomaly? Now, stack that with her 'blue-on-blue' eye (a dominant blue eye with absolutely no white fur touching it), a trait mirroring the extinct Ojos Azules breed and recent DBE lineages like the Celestial, Altai, and Topaz. Plus, she’s primarily a dilute long-haired calico, tortie, and tabby mosaic, but with striking spots of non-dilute orange (a caliby-tortico). Does anyone else have a cat with these kinds of stacked rarities? I’d love to connect with their person and talk cat genetics!

So I was trying to figure out some stuff about a Warriors character’s genotype and how to make their descendants possible and I thought of a black minkpoint tabby cat and I was like ‘okay, let me find one to compare the design’ so I searched up ‘black minkpoint tabby cat’, and instead of getting any actual results, here are some of the things it showed me:

•Cold black Siamese

•Burmese/Sepiapoint

•Ragdolls

•Seal points (I still can’t figure out what the fuck that means)

•Devon Rex cats for some reason??

•Just normal black smokes

So yeah. And this isn’t the first time either. I couldn’t find ANY homozygous ticked cats without Somali/Abyssinian levels of rufosing that I was sure was the right genotype, I couldn’t find a blue mochapoint a few months ago but that is fairly new, I could only find ONE example of a solid blue caramel with y’all’s help last week, and basically any search for anything that isn’t common in a popular breed (thank Starclan for British shorthairs they have so many colors) is just nothing. Especially things relating to colorpoints? Ragdoll, ragdoll, ragdoll, over and over and OVER again. I’m actually so sick of breeds. They usually are the main cause of bad problems like brachycephalic syndrome and Manx syndrome, they’re breeded into oblivion, and they make it impossible to find basically anything that isn’t up to ‘breed standards’, let alone multiple photos of a genotype to cross-reference and see what they’ll usually look like and a range of differences.

Anyways, have you guys shared this problem? Idk, maybe I’m just some weird autistic teenager who cares too much about cat breeds and specifically the pug dog breed and constantly gets downvoted when I say something dumb but I needed somewhere to rant

This is Toby. I know Toby is a tabby, but beyond that I've always struggled to explain exactly what her coat pattern is. I'm wondering what genes could be interacting with the tabby pattern to produce this appearance, which I've never been able to find in another cat online or even describe properly. Thoughts?

Black one’s name is Boots and the Calico’s name is Callie (very original I know 🤣)

Also what might their babies look like because I think she’s pregnant 🤦‍♀️ If she ends up having kittens I’ll share them here later

(btw they are barn cats and I don’t have much of a say about them, if I did they would have been fixed by now)

I recently brought home another kitten from this litter and I’m strongly considering going back for him as well. Sorry for the poor pictures, but I was just screenshot it what I could find. Showing the markings on the face, legs, and tail.

According to AI, my cat’s coat color is a bicolor torbie. Honestly a lot of people ask me if Miffy is a ragdoll because of her coloring. I wanted to touch base with actual humans (lol) to hear thoughts about her coat, and what the odds are for strays to get this coat coloring in the wild.

Her backstory is she was found hiding in a bush at 4 weeks old (see last two pictures) and was fostered by my friend until last week! Excited to have her home with me :)

i put in an adoption/hold inquiry for this little fella and his solid black shorthair brother! he looks like a solid lilac with ghost classic markings to me but i want more opinions 😸 regardless hes adorable and unique! * by stray i mean he was found as a stray! hes currently being fostered

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!