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I also don’t think that this cat is charcoal but non-Rosetted charcoal cats do exist and can give us different visual presentations than what we’re used to.

This is a “servaline” charcoal, basically a ticked tabby with the bengal modifier gene. How would this compare to the cat in question if dilute, silver and mink where thrown into the mix?

Here is another servaline charcoal - this one is sepia, she’s a 2G Bengal and if I remember correctly the ticked comes from Burmese ancestry.

It turns out that if you put ticked charcoal on a Selkirk Rex coat you basically lose all definition of the pattern.

The color on this spotted tortoiseshell charcoal Oriental Shorthair isn’t as rich or saturated as what we’re used to seeing on our usual rosetted charcoal Bengals.

Think tumblr may have eaten my ask from a few months ago but if not sorry for the resend. This kitty was at my local animal shelter, any idea what’s going on with that mask pattern?

I… really don’t know.

The mask somewhat resembles the signature “zorro” mask pattern of charcoal cats but that make be coincidence, the texture of the fur there appears to be radically different and the ears and possibly the paws also seem to have that darker gray coloration so I think it’s more likely part of some pointed pattern. I would guess the tail is also dark.

The main body of the coat is distinctly silver-tipped giving a frosted look but this cat appears to be much too old for any sort of “fever coat” situation, although I suppose other illnesses or nutritional deficiencies can cause oddities to occur.

Any ideas @amber-tortoiseshell?

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Think tumblr may have eaten my ask from a few months ago but if not sorry for the resend. This kitty was at my local animal shelter, any idea what’s going on with that mask pattern?

I… really don’t know.

The mask somewhat resembles the signature “zorro” mask pattern of charcoal cats but that make be coincidence, the texture of the fur there appears to be radically different and the ears and possibly the paws also seem to have that darker gray coloration so I think it’s more likely part of some pointed pattern. I would guess the tail is also dark.

The main body of the coat is distinctly silver-tipped giving a frosted look but this cat appears to be much too old for any sort of “fever coat” situation, although I suppose other illnesses or nutritional deficiencies can cause oddities to occur.

Any ideas @amber-tortoiseshell?

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🐱 Maine Coon Polydactyl

📸 Mercer Street Maine Coons

🎨 Black Silver Ticked Tabby

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Irma Tavi Blues

🐱 British Shorthair

📸 Tatiana Istratova [Tavi Blues]

🎨 Fawn Bicolor

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🐱 Ocicat

📸 Tenzai Cattery

🎨 Cinnamon Spotted Tabby

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🐱 Manx [Manx Syndrome]

📸 Dieter Krowas [Amhara’s Cattery]

🎨 Red Mackerel Tabby

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Viva la Diva Night Vision*RU

🐱 British Longhair

📸 Cattery Night Vision*RU

🎨 Fawn Tortoiseshell Bicolor

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🐱 Siamese

📸 Kokiri Cattery

🎨 Fawn Tortoiseshell Tabby Point

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Jack Daniels MagicznyDwór*PL [Pedigree]

🐱 British Shorthair

📸 Magiczny Dwór*PL

🎨 Chocolate Golden Classic Tabby Bicolor

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Zlatomir Molchan [Pedigree]

🐱 Siberian

📸 Elena Kopylenko [Zlatomir Cattery]

🎨 Black Spotted Tabby

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Hello, I just wanted to show you my cat. That's it. I think she's very cool. Her name's Dawn

She's a dilute tortie but she's so cream that most people get confused when I call her that, it's most obvious on her head. Sorry I don't have any pictures of her in good lighting, I don't touch grass and neither does she

I've had some people say she might be silver but I'm not sure? She doesn't really look like it to me but I guess it's kinda hard to tell when the spots it would be most obvious on are barely there

Dawn is a beautiful name for a beautiful cat, she has such a unique look to her - primarily red tortoiseshells feel like they’re uncommon enough, nevermind in dilute!

I’m inclined to agree with you about her not being silver.

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got a pretty kitty to show you:

new arrival to the shelter i volunteer at :') idk her full background without asking around, her intake sheet said "owner surrender" and "found as a stray." her breed was listed as DLH but someone also wrote somali on the side of the page lol, so i'm curious if she's actually got anything unusual going on colorwise or if she's just a very beautiful tortie (couldn't get paw pad pics sadly but it looked like the fur between her toes is black, and so is the tip of her tail)

she's a big sweetie and gave me lots of head bonks, so i'm sure she'll be quick to find a new home 💗

Woah… she’s an absolutely stunning kitty, definitely very unique. Whoever brings her home is going to wind up with an astonishingly gorgeous cat.

She’s a black ticked tortoiseshell tabby, I’m going to call her a Domestic Longhair but the lack of residual tabby patterning on her limbs (as far as I can see) is unusual. Likely homozygous ticked.

In the United States you don’t really see tortoiseshell Somali because our main registries are CFA and TICA which don’t recognize sex-linked red or tortoiseshell but some European registries - like GCCF and LOOF - do.

That isn’t to say a hypothetical Somali mix couldn’t be tortie because the non-pedigree parent could be red and you would get tortie offspring! The white bib is also a point against Somali, though.

While I wouldn’t say Somali ancestry is entirely impossible (and speculation can be fun) for all intents and purposes I’d consider her a Domestic Longhair on paper. Being very pretty doesn’t replace a pedigree!

Hope this made sense because I was fighting falling back asleep writing it ✌️ now goodnight 💤

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Tibère de Baudelaire [Pedigree]

🐱 Cornish Rex

📸 Philippe Manceau

🎨 Black

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Vivat Kotavi Jolly

🐱 Aphrodite Giant

📸 Roza Vostoka

🎨 Cream Harlequin

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Blue spotted tabby Domestic Shorthair, here’s a link to another post by OP showing more of the cat where the body pattern is visible.

it's actually pretty incredible...

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NO*Loza’s Lovely Noir [Pedigree]

🐱 Norwegian Forest Cat

📸 Sofia Leonsen [NO*Loza’s]

🎨 Black Bicolor

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SE*Lemeno’s Muujiza

🐱 Sokoke

📸 Tuss Bennegård [SE*Lemeno’s]

🎨 Black Classic Tabby