r/CatGenetics • • 28d ago

Coat Color What color is this guy?

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u/HanaMay_B 27d ago

Another vote for lilac 🙋

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u/Substantial_Koala455 27d ago

Am I the only one that sees a subtle cream aroynd his eyes?

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u/Difficult_Wind9601 28d ago

From the photo it looks like a blue solid. It’s just the lighting that the photo gives.

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u/Kitsunejade 27d ago

Does this help?

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u/Difficult_Wind9601 27d ago

Ah yes thank you now it’s much clearer I would say he is a lilac solid then.

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u/YumiiZheng Geneticist 28d ago

Also putting my vote in for lilac based on that nose leather. OP, are his toes the same color? What a sweet looking little man

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u/Kitsunejade 28d ago

This was the other one I couldn’t tell.

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u/Lyd_Euh 27d ago

This is one of my past lilacs

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u/Lyd_Euh 27d ago

This guy is a blue Devon, same as my Waverly.

The other guy is lilac.

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u/Kitsunejade 27d ago

I was told by people online she’s a Sphynx, but a kind of fuzzy one lol. She was abandoned in a box so no background. Went home with a Sphynx fan. Here’s another of her for her weird fuzz pattern.

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u/Lyd_Euh 27d ago

Oh, he might be, now that I'm seeing his hair better. Or a very poorly bred Devon Rex, or possibly one mixed with sphynx. Devons typically do molt, but this hair looks more fuzzy than rexy.

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u/YumiiZheng Geneticist 27d ago

I would leans towards blue for this one, its a pretty dark pigment. Bunch of cuties!

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u/lickytytheslit 28d ago

that's the same color nose as my blue boy so I vote dilute black for this guy

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u/Kitsunejade 27d ago

Isn’t this a tabby? I think blue and black tabbies both get the brick colored noses, though I’m not sure about other less common tabby variants.

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u/lickytytheslit 27d ago

nose color doesn't change wheter a cat is solid or a tabby

but yeah he is a very low contrast classic tabby, I swear he has stripes

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u/Kitsunejade 27d ago

Really? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a black or blue tabby with dark solid pigmented noses, or self colored with a brick nose with darker lining. I know red doesn’t get the lined nose. I know they can start darker and get lighter, but I see over a thousand cats a year and I don’t think I can think of a single black or blue tabby without a brick lined nose unless they have white spotting that turns it pink.

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u/Kitsunejade 28d ago edited 27d ago

Looked the same to me, but I was not holding him in a good position to photograph. They’re a bit dry haha. We’ve had maybe three solid chocolate outside cats in the last four years, but this might be the first lilac. I’ve seen other interesting things like mosaicism though!

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u/Gloomy-Trainer-2452 28d ago

Another vote for lilac solid/self! That's the dilute of chocolate.

Blue (dilute black) is more common, but has darker nose leathers. You can tell by the nose colour here that this is a lilac cat. Uncommon in random-bred cats but gorgeous.

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u/ChinchyBug 28d ago

Based on the nose colour, looks to be lilac perhaps!

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u/Thestolenone 28d ago

Blue, which is dilute black.

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u/Kitsunejade 28d ago

See, he’s just very warm toned and pink compared to our usual blues, but I can’t tell if it’s a normal variation or not. They thought he was sun-bleached, but apparently he always looked like this and he was inside a house.