Ah, yes, that probably explains it. The street cats in that area tend to favor the Oriental-type purebred cats in the US, and Indonesia is close to where the pointed gene originally developed. Tropical street cats tend toward the slim, smooth-coated, long-faced variety. So they can look like purebred Oriental breeds even without having any pedigreed background. But after all, how more "purebred" can you get than the original product?
Furballsmom
- The influence of Dorothy Hinds-Dougherty's foundation cats.
Kieka
has two with that Lapis Blue eye colour going on as well - Link:
Thank youuu
M medinazahra7 - I think three things:
1.) Yes, the coat colour will darken; the cb and cs alleles are both linked to temperature-sensitive albinism.
2.)
3.) Muiza is one of the most beautiful kitties I've ever seen, and I have a Snowshoe:
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As far as guessing the black and white Parent -StefanZ did all the hard work, working out the Burmese coat colouration and then backtracking the Parentage to Tonkinese to account for blue eyes rather than greenish-aqua - and he was the one who originally proposed either a black or black and white maternal Parent. Knowing that there's no epistatic (dominant) white between Siamese and Burmese, left the white inheritance as the only unsolved piece of the puzzle. He did all the genetics work.
Moo Shu - my Snowshoe - says that Muiza can come and visit her any time!
Welcome to TCS, medinazahra; I hope you'll stay around this little community; I'd love to see more photos of Muiza - and I'll bet that a great many other members would as well.
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StefanZ
From his post, I learn about Tonkinese for the first time, ever, hehe. His information was so detailed (even tracking and guessing correctly the colour of the momma), and looking by what you
1CatOverTheLine
and
StefanZ
wrote, I know that both of you are very well-informed about cats 
Ah, yes, that probably explains it. The street cats in that area tend to favor the Oriental-type purebred cats in the US, and Indonesia is close to where the pointed gene originally developed. Tropical street cats tend toward the slim, smooth-coated, long-faced variety. So they can look like purebred Oriental breeds even without having any pedigreed background. But after all, how more "purebred" can you get than the original product?
*If there's anyone who asks; they came to me as stray cats when they're about one month old. They came to my house for food, then the next thing, they become part of my life, my family's life
So they did come together with momma? is the momma too with you?
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Thanks for the mention. M medinazahra7 mentioned getting darker. Compare Link in the photo above to Link recently.
and Rocket:
Kieka
- You already know how I feel about Link, but as
Furballsmom
said earlier - "wow!" He really is breathtaking, you know. I think the same of Rocket and Moo Shu, of course - and they actually do grow more beautiful as they mature - but they're still... well... you know what they are.
Rockets changed too but not as noticably...- You already know how I feel about Link, but as
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Kieka
- I'm partial to both Link and Rocket, but Rocket's absolutely perfect inverted-v facial markings are utterly fabulous. From a judge's standpoint, this little girl meets the Breed Standard for Snowshoes almost perfectly. The best thing about Link and Rocket, however, is that they're your headaches and not mine!
StefanZ
, as always your posts were enlightening.
Kieka
snowshoe-lookalikes, it seems a combo of seal point and white may also tend sometimes to give a point whom is unusually dark over whole body and darkens up early already as kitten.
StefanZ
--not to say I know or am any kind of an expert because I'm certainly not, but sometimes that 'gut feeling' says "oh, it's this, not that". I really like your thinking in your latest post 
