Rare Tabby Cat Colors
Lilac also known as lavender is an almost purple color and is one of the lightest kinds of dilution in the chocolate color.
Rare tabby cat colors. Brown mackeral tabbies are the most common. Of all the cat breeds you will mostly find the lavender color in siamese and colorpoint shorthair cats. Like the smoke coat in chinchilla coats to the cat s undercoat is pure white while the tip of the hair is black giving the cat a shimmery silver appearance. Below is a photo of a calico cat you can clearly see the brown and red tabby colours as well as the effects of the white spotting gene.
Calico cats have three colors. Unlike dogs which vary drastically in shapes in sizes between breeds cats are pretty much well cats. The term calico much like tabby refers to a pattern of colors rather than a breed. The tabby pattern occurs in twelve colours which are black based or red based and their dilutes and dilute modifiers which change the shape of the melanin granules or make them clump together.
Lavender is considered the rarest of all the cat color patterns and therefore lavender colored tabby cats are really hard to come by. Tortoiseshell and calico are rare in male cats because they only have one x chromosome so they will either be ginger or non ginger. Within their calico spots they may have tabby stripes. If a cat has three colors and the distinctive tabby forehead marking they re a calico tabby.
It s recessive meaning even in pedigree cats it is a rarity making it pretty special. Darker spots stripes or whorls on a lighter brown background. The chinchilla coloration is most often found in persian cats and can actually present in silver or gold. Black stripes ranging from coal black to brownish on a background of brown to gray.
White orange and black. They are everywhere online probably because they make everything cuter and funnier. There is no question about it. Distinct color patterns with one color predominating.
It is considered a dilution of an already diluted color and is therefore not as commonly seen in even pedigreed cats.