sunreon:naamahdarling:pesky-kittypets:climbstudio:pesky-kittypets:My inner geneticist is cryingok bu
sunreon:naamahdarling:pesky-kittypets:climbstudio:pesky-kittypets:My inner geneticist is cryingok but like…this is a thing that can happen it’s just super rare loly othese colors were undocumented when I was a child this is so fucking excitingthose mutations are very, very cool, but I would like to point out that the cat in the picture is not a blue-ginger tabby.That is a dilute torbie. A strikingly dilute torbie, at that. She clearly has base coat orange where the orange stripes are, and faint but dark grey stripes in the areas where the base coat is pale grey.This isn’t even that rare. Dilute/blue torties, calicos, torbies, and cali-cabbies/whatever you want to call them are definitely a thing. Maine coon breeders are apparently gaga for them.I assume that the cat described in OP is a dilute or silver tortie, since /I/ would assume a “flame” would mean orange stripes. She doesn’t even have to be dilute, though. She could be a silver instead of a classic (brown) or black. Silverflame is an extremely plausible cat.Here are some examples!Dilutes:^^^^ this LaPerm in particular is a beautiful example of the greyness with clear patches. And the shorthair above is another great example of clear ginger stripes. And #2 with the gorgeous fluff and the thin orange stripes? Shit I’d name that cat Silverflame. Please give me that cat.This cat appears to have both black AND silver patches. She may be a chimera.There are silver torbies.^^^ this is a silver classic or perhaps even a marbled. Probably a marbled. Her markings would be very blobby, which explains the dark patches.These cats are so strikingly beautiful I kinda wanna just die. btw I pulled a bunch of these photos from the Maine Coon Breeders & Fanciers Association so these are super legit.THEY EVEN COME IN SMOKE. THIS IS A SMOKE TORBIE. LOOK AT HER. OMG.This little cutie is the closest I can find to the blue-ginger tabby mutation as described in the illustration. She is listed as a silver-chocolate torbie by the breeder. -- source link