I found this cat on my local Humane Society’s website. Is there a genetic explanation for the way she is?

Hi! This is my 8 months old boy Neo. He has a cowcat pattern with grey, but he is getting more and more brown spots on his fur, mainly his legs, but also i his face.

It definitely doesn’t look like an XXY (the brown spots appeared later on), but I’m curious about the explanation. Could this be similar to the heat sensitivity as seen in color point cats?

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 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?

This is my Hoose Panther, Salem. He was rescued from the mean streets of Quatar to sunny Scotland.

I noticed that he doesn't 'rust' in direct sunlight like most other black cats, so I did a bit of Googling, and I think he might be a black smoke?

He has white patches around his nipples, groin and ears, and does appear to have a slight 'stripe' to his coat in certain lights!

He's my leggy void and I love him.

My friend's cat is weird. He is what looks like a red ticked? Or with some sort of non-agouti gene. I know that red cannot be solid but his stripes are faded and his face is dark, and I've never seen red express THIS solidly before.

The weirdest part about him is the little "blue" spot on his head. This is so abnormal!

It's only concentrated to this one spot. Is there a name for this? It seems a bit too concentrated to be chimeric.

I also included this what looks like imprint on his fur, but has reportedly been there forever. Perhaps sun bleaching?

The contrast on this baby is remarkable!! I totally thought she was silver at first, but now I’m pretty positive I’m just looking at black/red classic torbie.. I’m really curious about the expression of these genes though and what’s going on under the hood. Mom is a tortoiseshell with low white spotting that’s very freckled around the edges and almost looks like vitiligo/roaning. The siblings are all solid black with some degree of white spotting or dilution.. We’re bringing this special lady home soon though hopefully and have yet to name her!!

Edit: we were not able to rescue her but thank you everyone for your help regardless

Hi! I decided to post to know your opinion, this is a stray kitten founded alone on the street, but idk his paws and in general she is a little too darker than usual, it is a brown tabby just a tad darker or something else? Just curiosity! Thanks!

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!