Cat colors - what coat colors can cats have?īasically, when it comes to cat colors, cats are black unless they have inherited the sex-linked orange masking gene, in which case, they are red, Miller explains. Cats basically come in black, red, white or some combination, dilution or mixture of these. Maybe it'll move to her back too.“Birds derive their brilliant coloring because of the chemical structure of their feathers and amino acid modifiers, which is different from that of cat coat textures where pigmentation is based on melanin types,” says Joan Miller, the Cat Fanciers’ Association’s outreach and education chair and renowned cat expert. The other kitten is definitely getting lighter on the chest, stomach, upper legs, and sides! So much so it looks gray and not even a muted black. It's pretty faint, but there way more than any of the other kittens that have a "ghost tabby" pattern, but it seems more like they are showing up more as she grows rather than her changing color significantly. The bi colored (black and white) kitten above, is starting to get more obvious tabby markings oddly enough, but is a mute looking black with deeper black stripes. I just wanted to be sure nothing was wrong with her! The others are so fluffy and dark, her fur is short, a little sparse in spots but is there, and more rough/coarse compared to the others.
I don't know the relation with the fever coat and breed, or what genes cause it, and what the requirements are, etc. Possible the father could be a Russian Blue perhaps or a mix because he does have dark green eyes, but I doubt it. All black Thanks for the info, I had no idea a "fever coat" is a thing, it looks pretty interesting! The kittens parents both seem like the average kitty, dad is blue/gray, stubby and has green eyes, mom is a tiny mackerel tabby with white spots and yellow eyes. Kitten in question at a few days old, you can see she has a few bald spots, which are now gone. I will post higher quality pictures showing the differences when I can, but for now these are what I have!
The father is a smoke, the mother is a mackerel tabby. I guess my question is, are these two kittens going to darken back up, are they going to lighten up? Is it because they are "smoke" kittens? I'm not sure. The stripes on them have started becoming more obvious. Over the past two weeks, two of those black kittens (a boy and girl) have become an even darker black, very solid, very sleek yet still so fluffy! Which is what I expected.īut the other two (two girls, one has white patches) have gone from dark black to a very "muted" black! They seem a dark dark "blue/gray" all over, except the center of the back. They were all born a sleek black, where you could see on three of them very faint tabby stripes as you can with a lot of black cats and kittens. Now here comes the part I'm not familiar with! I thought black kitties only got darker! Three were born "solid" black, one black and white, but the black was still a solid black.
This is about three kittens in particular. As some may know, my cat Buttons just had six beautiful kittens two weeks ago today
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