Any one seen a cat like this before?

[jemma01]

So I took in a pregnant foster cat. She gave birth weight weeks after me getting her. She gave birth to 6 kittens 4 girls (1 black and white, 2 solid grey and a grey and white) And 2 boys (1 black and white and a black,white and grey)

Dad was a solid grey British short-hair mum is a black and white moggy.

This boy who has been named merlin has such strange colourings and markings i have never seen before!

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A baby photo of his black spots.

He is called merlin because if he was a dog he would be merle in colour!!

 

[Willowy]

Oh, wow, so he got some dilute blue and some black! That is very unusual, I'm not even sure it's genetically possible. Maybe he's a chimera---merged with a littermate in the womb. That's probably the best explanation I can come up with :dk:.

 

[jemma01]

I keep joking and saying if he was a girl he would be tortie and his gender got changed last minute! I have never seen a kitten or cat like him though so I thought I would ask!

 

[StefanZ]

Yes, I agree, this is a riddle.  And a chimera not totally excluded as explanation, I too thought on this.

 

[Sarthur2]

He sure is cute! [emoji]128571[/emoji]

 

[mingsmongols]

Oh, wow, so he got some dilute blue and some black! That is very unusual, I'm not even sure it's genetically possible. Maybe he's a chimera---merged with a littermate in the womb. That's probably the best explanation I can come up with

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Your right. That shouldn't be possible... Pretty cool. How about a shoot off of the brindle gene you see in dogs that has their coat alternating between a white hair and a black hair?

 

[Smidgen089]

My girl Smidge is almost identical to him.

 

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