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Cats-from-the-Past [2021-05-25 06:39:44 +0000 UTC]

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Swiftstar01 [2018-09-11 18:25:58 +0000 UTC]

Cool! I have my own sources as well from charts I found on the internet to the official cat breeds cite.

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MrBig2 [2018-09-09 06:34:40 +0000 UTC]

Can you do cat genetics and coloration charts on the rarely covered aspects of cat coloration and genetics?

Suggestions
1) Tabby field coloration variations: value (pale to dark); warmth (hot to cold); brightness (dull to flashy)
2) Tabby torso stripe/blotch/spot/speckle visibility (faint to distinct)
3) Topaz White Spotting Pattern (messybeast.com/blue-eye-breeds… )
4) Thai White Spotting Pattern (messybeast.com/bicolours.htm )
5) Birman Gloving Pattern
6) Genetically realistic and unrealistic ways of designing white spotting patterns
7) Tabby stripe variations; not just the basic classic, mackerel, ticked, and spotted ones (messybeast.com/spotted-cats.ht… )
8) Breakthrough tabby patterns on color restriction cats (low contrast sepia/burmese, medium contrast mink/tonkinese, high contrast siamese/point, and very high contrast bondanese)
9) Pattern and Coloration Variations That Appear on the Wildcats (Felis silvestris)* (outside of the domestic form of Felis silvestris lybica)
10) Small Color Breakthrough Spots in the White Areas on White Spotted Cats (messybeast.com/bicolours-spott… )
11) Silver Dapple Cats (messybeast.com/merle.htm )

* , who also started doing cat genetics charts, said that the wild-type coat colors found in wildcats (Felis silvestris) are the black tabby (by far the most common) and the chocolate tabby (occasional or seldom).

1) Felis silvestris silvestris (European wildcat; includes the Scottish, Spanish, and Caucasian wildcats): mackerel tabby, barred ticked tabby; widely or moderately spaced and well defined stripes that tend to be uninterrupted, distinctly and cleanly ringed tail with a black tail tip; mainland European form often, but not always has a faint torso pattern or pattern apart from tail; both Scottish and Caucasian forms usually have unbroken torso stripe patterns

2) Felis silvestris lybica (Near Eastern Wildcat; includes the Gordon’s and domestic (wild)cats): mackerel tabby, broken mackerel tabby, barred ticked tabby; stripes, dashes, and/or spots tend to be interupted, messier, and moderately or closely spaced; torso pattern can be somewhat or even very faint; has tiny ear tufts

3) Felis silvestris cafra (Southern African Wildcat; includes the Kalahari wildcat): mackerel tabby, broken mackerel tabby, barred ticked tabby; faint or very faint torso pattern, especially on the Kalahari form; arm (front leg) stripes are very distinct, especially on the Kalahari form; torso pattern can have either broken or unbroken stripes; backs of ears are very reddish or orangey

4) Felis silvestris ornata (Central Asian Wildcat); mackerel spotted tabby; broken mackerel tabby; well or very well defined and clean spots; there is a very clearly defined spot variant and a somewhat relatively washed out and less clean, but not faint spot variant; has small or tiny ear tufts

5) Felis silvestris bieti (Chinese mountain [wild]cat): barred ticked tabby, broken mackerel tabby; very or extremely faint pattern apart from tail, distinctly and cleanly ringed tail with rings more distinct toward the black tail tip; another variant has a moderately visible broken torso stripe pattern; has small ear tufts

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