• Psythik@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    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.

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      4 hours ago

      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.

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      4 hours ago

      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