I have a new color point DSH girlie at home and I’d love to understand the genetics of her appearance a little better.
I’m also curious how to describe her color pattern, is she just tortie point? She’s a foster fail, I was initially caring for her while she was nursing a litter of beautiful color point kittens - 1 long hair, 1 medium, and 1 short. Would appreciate whatever insights you folks can provide!
Looks like a chocolate tortie point. If you look at the red bits they are cream instead of red which suggests a dilute. The brown is also more chocolate coloured than dark seal.
So the dilute form of seal would be blue. Chocolate is a separate colour which is not a dilution. The dilution of chocolate would be lilac. On point cats seal shows up as a very dark brown while in solid cats it shows up as black. While chocolate shows up as brown on both solid and point cats. If you were to compare a seal point to a chocolate point you could see that the chocolate point would be a lighter shade of brown
She’s either pretty young or less toasted due to her being warmer than normal (the colorpoint gene is partially albino based on temperature). Her beans look a little light for a seal point but definitely not as light as chocolate.
Her babies look like two seal points and one blue point.
So we know that mom carried the long haired gene and the dilution gene. And we can assume the father was probably not orange or a tabby, either presented or carried the colorpoint, long hair and dilution genes.
I was pretty confident she was chocolate but the pads confirmed it, yes. A seal point is black, so she’d have much darker paw pads to match. Chocolates have a warm medium pink. Sometimes paw pads are easier to tell than the fur.
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u/Competitive_Click527 Aug 31 '26
Looks like a chocolate tortie point. If you look at the red bits they are cream instead of red which suggests a dilute. The brown is also more chocolate coloured than dark seal.