Dark Silver Tabby Cat

Interestingly all cats are tabby cats but some have a gene that masks the tabby appearance.

Dark silver tabby cat.

A silver ticked tabby british shorthair cat has a silver undercoat with black tips or blue chocolate etc depending on what colour the cat is. Silver tabbies can be nearly white or very dark in color. It s your typical tiger cat and the wild type coloration of the wildcat. Dark grey spots and stripes prevail over a lighter gray or white coat.

The american shorthair comes in more than 80 different colors patterns ranging from black to white and a variety of colors between. The tabby cat is perhaps one of the most well known in the cat world. The fifth pattern is an emergent one expressed by female cats with one black and one orange gene one on each of their two x chromosomes and is explained by barr bodies and the genetics of sex linked. All of the hairs that would be black will instead be blue.

A brown tabby has black stripes against a brown and gray background. Silver tabbies are generally a mix of shades of grey. If the cat has black stripes it s not a gray tabby it s a brown or silver tabby. The four basic tabby patterns are due to two distinct gene loci the agouti gene locus with two alleles and the tabby locus with three alleles and one modifier spotted with two alleles.

The term calico much like tabby refers to a pattern of colors rather than a breed. The ticked tabby gene restricts the pigment in the hair to the tips. If a cat has three colors and the distinctive tabby forehead.