The body does not have markings, patches, spots. This sleek beast is a ticked silver Maine Coon, and ready for his close up!Ī ticked tabby has ticked hairs, that is, each each hair is marked with different shades of colors. Ticked Silver Tabby Maine Coon Photo via Maine Coon Fanciers and Breeders Association According to the CFA Breed standards, these patterns are classic tabby, mackeral tabby, and ticked tabby. Notice how thick and chunky the cat tree had to be to support 20+ pounds of big cat from the top!īy the way, a silver tabby Maine Coon color can also be in different categories, depending on their pattern. Silver Tabby Maine Coon On Top of a Cat PerchĪnother large (and in charge) tabby silver Maine Coon cat sitting on a perch on the top of his cat tree. The impression is that the cat’s fur is “marbled” and spiral-looking. There are more swirls on their cheeks and patches on their shoulders. The classic silver tabby Maine Coon has the trademark “M” marking on their forehead, with distinctive swirls on the head, body, and limbs. This distinguished silver Maine Coon showing off signature tabby patterns. Look at that solid dark silver Maine Coon cat! The lack of stripes, patterns, or patches in the fur really accentuate how solid and large the cat is! 5. Solid Dark Silver Maine Coon Photo via Maine Coon Fanciers and Breeders Association Here’s another silver tabby Maine Coon cat from Finnish cat shows with extra fluffy neck scruff! 4. Another Finnish Silver Tabby Maine Coon Photo via: This pampered specimen is a silver Maine Coon from Finland, where he can be found on the cat show circuit, and fawned upon by her parents and doting photographers. Finnish Silver Tabby Maine Coon Cat Photo via: Maine Coons of this color have lighter colored fur on their belly, with their faces, legs, feet being a little darker.Ģ. The undercoat color has become more prominent as she grows up. The contract is pretty dramatic if you ask me. In particular, her underside and belly are almost white. She appears solidly silver-gray, but her undercoat is much lighter. She is a “smoke” silver Maine Coon, with “smoke” meaning her fur is one color (gray) on the outer coat but the roots are silver. Shell color cats have 12% or 1/8 of the hair ends are colored.Meet Chelle, my Maine Coon girl. Shaded color cats have 33% or 1/3 of the hair ends are colored. Silver color cats have more than 33% of the hair ends colored. How to tell the difference between the shaded, shell, and silver cats? All solid colors can be affected by the inhibitor gene which labels them “Smoke” plus the underlining solid color.Įxample: Solid Blue + Inhibitor Gene = Blue SmokeĮxample: Solid Red + Inhibitor Gene = Red Smoke This means that the cat's hairs are dark (usually black) at the tips but have much lighter colored bands near the bottom. Smoke Color Maine Coons are a solid color cat that carries the inhibitor gene which suppresses the color in the hair shaft. The dilute gene must be present in both the sire and dam’s pedigree in order to produce dilute offspring. Modify the dilution and it becomes "caramel". Shaded silvers, black smokes and chinchilla cats may look various shades of grey or silver, but they are black cats with silver roots to their fur. In the Asian breed (self Burmese cats) it has a breed name to itself "Bombay". In Burmese it is "sable" or "seal sepia" and in American Tonkinese it is "cinnamon" or "natural mink". In colour-pointed cats, "black" is called "seal". The jet-black colour you known as "black" is called "ebony" and "ebony tabby" in Orientals, "black" in solid coloured domestic shorthairs, "brown" when it refers to brown tabby domestic shorthairs, "bronze" in Egyptian Maus, "tawny" in Ocicats and "ruddy" in Abyssinians. Confused? Don't worry - there are some cross-reference tables later on! American registries like to add "mink" after the Tonkinese colors whereas British registries use the same name for that color as is used in the equivalent Siamese or Burmese colour. Even in the same breed, the color may have different names depending on which country the cat comes from and which registry it is registered with. The same colors are called by different names in different breeds. Colors that appear identical to the human eye are caused by different genetic interactions. Even where the same name is used, there may be different views on what is an acceptable or ideal version of that color. Why are there not five basic colors? White is counted as an absence of color rather than a color.ĭifferent countries, registries and breeds have different names for some of the same basic colours. Red is a form of tabby as it is impossible to completely eliminate the tabby markings. All other solid colors are modifications of these. Genetically there are four basic solid colors of cats: black, chocolate, cinnamon and red.
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