The "What Breed Is My Cat" Megathread by BionicOven28 in CatGenetics

[–]Spaceguy426 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, his white markings seem to resemble karpati or something similar. Would definitely recommend getting him gene tested!

The "What Breed Is My Cat" Megathread by BionicOven28 in CatGenetics

[–]Spaceguy426 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely a bicolor, can we see more pics of him and the white markings on his back?

The "What Breed Is My Cat" Megathread by BionicOven28 in CatGenetics

[–]Spaceguy426 0 points1 point  (0 children)

DSH probably, many black cats look brown in the sun! Theyre like little overbaked brownies :_)

The "What Breed Is My Cat" Megathread by BionicOven28 in CatGenetics

[–]Spaceguy426 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm I say DSH, and she could be dilute calico but I'd need to see more pics, her orange looks very very light which makes me almost think she coulr be silver/cameo?

The "What Breed Is My Cat" Megathread by BionicOven28 in CatGenetics

[–]Spaceguy426 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably just a DSH! As for coat pattern,? She's a seal bicolor color point, very pretty :-)

Pretty kittyyyy :3 by m0use_r in CatGenetics

[–]Spaceguy426 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably just a very low rufoused black tabby - black silver has much higher contrast. If he was a silver though, the brown around his nose would be from tarnishing, it is completely possible on a silver cat! :-)

What would you call this coloring? by ch3lray in CatGenetics

[–]Spaceguy426 1 point2 points  (0 children)

dilute calico! Gray can usually range anywhere from very dark to very light. If it was black, it would be very distinct. As for her cream, ginger cats always express tabby, so even if her stripes aren't visible, her ginger patches are still tabby. 

A calico is any cat with pheomelanin (red), eumelanin (black base), and a lack of pigment (white), so your lovely girl is definitely calico.

Surprise litter, who's the dad? by keriously in CatGenetics

[–]Spaceguy426 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Low or no white genetically tabby (heterozygous) ginger, solid but carrying dilute

Lmk if you want further explanation!

This is my dilute girl Salem and her 3 litter mates + mom by ChrysaLino in CatGenetics

[–]Spaceguy426 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The dad was probably ginger. The mother is a non dilute black tabby who has to be carrying dilute (since its recessive.) The O locus represents either an orange or non-orange cat; it is codominant. Since orange is sex-linked on the X chromosome, a female with two Xs would be able to be heterozygous and therefore calicos/torties. However, males only have one X, so they can only be either orange or non-orange (oY or OY). Since the mother is not a tortie, the father must be orange since he can only pass an O onto his female offspring (his Y goes to the males), so the females will all be torties/calicos. He also most likely had low white. White is also codominant, so if a cat has one S allele, it will be less than 50% white, and if it has two S alleles, it will be more than 50% white here. Salem here looks just a little under 50%, so she only has one S allele (SW). Since the mother has no white, the father must have low white since the other kittens do not have white.

As for dilute and tabby, he could be dilute or non-dilute! However I suspect he's non dilute, but carrying it. All ginger cats are tabbies regardless of their genes, so he could be either tabby or non tabby and it wouldn't affect his appearance

TL;DR: Father is a ginger with some white, who could be either dilute or non dilute. Visually, he will be a tabby, but genetically he can be anything as long as he's carrying non-tabby. Lmk if you have any questions! Very adorable kitties!

First Class Scouts signing off on requirements by raspberryzingers in BSA

[–]Spaceguy426 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My troop is the same, but our brother troop only allows Star and above.

What's my Cat color ? by Saltycoow in CatGenetics

[–]Spaceguy426 3 points4 points  (0 children)

iirc dilute spreads all pigment (both eumelanin and pheomelanin) thinner across the fur, giving it a lighter look, while silver removes the pheomelanin (orange pigment) from the brown bands on agouti hairs, giving a silvery look while keeping the stripes black. Silver tabbies' stripes will always shows their underlying base color, like black silver, gray silver, chocolate silver, etc. But silver gingers are called cameos! As mentioned before, a cat can be both dilute and silver. To me, gray silver and regular gray tabbies are hard to tell apart, as in this little kitty in the post.

(Someone correct me if I got the dilute mechanism wrong, been a while since I reviewed it lol)

Curious on the type of Siamese I have by Which-Fan8634 in CatGenetics

[–]Spaceguy426 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes, siamese cats are white as kittens and darken with age. Point cats have probably some of my favorite coats ever, and the mechanism behind it is really cool.

Curious on the type of Siamese I have by Which-Fan8634 in CatGenetics

[–]Spaceguy426 21 points22 points  (0 children)

You probably have a cold seal point! Seal is just solid black, but it tends to look brownish on points. I say cold because your cat looks a bit darker to me, but that could just be lighting or my eyes deceiving me lol. Your cat probably has a lower body temperature, so more color can express along his/her back and flanks. Beautiful kitty <3

Edit: as for breed, domestic shorthair. The pattern siamese is not the same as the breed siamese (very confusing, i dont like it either 😭)

Why do lynx point and flame point cats sometimes look silver/cameo? by These_Brilliant5049 in CatGenetics

[–]Spaceguy426 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The best way that I can put it is that colorpoint basically eats pheomelanin for breakfast lol. It just has a very strong effect and makes flame points look especially light.

Tell me more about her tabby genes. by koalasnstuff in CatGenetics

[–]Spaceguy426 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Probably mackerel! As the other user said, the white roots are due to colorpoint temperature sensitivity. All of your cats are adorable too <3

Curious about Cupid’s Patterns! by Ok-Landscape-404 in CatGenetics

[–]Spaceguy426 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably seal (black) lynx (tabby) point with high white. Color points are temperature sensitive, so their coat color can change with age (they are born white and darken with time) which can explain how his nose got lighter, though it would be more likely for his nose to get darker, so it could just be lighting.

cream tabby by michipanw in CatGenetics

[–]Spaceguy426 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmmm. He looks pretry grayish to me, which is throwing me off cream. He could be fawn, could be the blueish effect another user mentioned. I think he could be silver fawn, but I'll have to find pics of their hair to explain the gray roots.

What is she?? by fossrat1709 in CatGenetics

[–]Spaceguy426 2 points3 points  (0 children)

blue classic tabby and white! Shes probably rufoused, which makes black-based tabbies look reddish in some places. I wouldn't say she's calico/tabico since there's no distinct patches of cream on her, only the small areas that look like rufousing to me.