I can’t find any chimeras or calico cats that look anything like this, so I’m gonna go with hidden option c or d: it’s AI or someone painted their cat.
While my cat doesn’t have as big distinct patches of color, she also has solid black fur (sprinkled with tiny red specks) and her orange head spot shows a tabby pattern. Their genetics are similar, just the expression is different.
Nah totally possible to be a normal calico, just that she has the a/a agouti gene so the black fur shows up completely black.
Orange fur always shows up tabby, regardless of the agouti gene
thats gotta be a chimera right?
Usually chimerism in cats presents as split down the middle vertically - if this is chimerism then it’s exceptionally rare, even amongst chimeras.
Ed…ward…
Oh no…
Either chimera or calico
I can’t find any chimeras or calico cats that look anything like this, so I’m gonna go with hidden option c or d: it’s AI or someone painted their cat.
I’ve never seen a calico with such a distinct pattern like that. The cat literally looks half ginger tabby, half tuxedo. Definitely a chimera.
Nah totally possible to be a normal calico, just that she has the a/a agouti gene so the black fur shows up completely black. Orange fur always shows up tabby, regardless of the agouti gene