Hi. I rescue and home cats. Blue eyed, white cats are popular. This one developed pale grey patches later, and after several more months, the orange appeared. So is she likely a mix of siamese and domestic short hair...can you give any insights? Many thanks. P.s. the adopters love her and say she is very smart and attentive.
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Blue-eyed calico ?
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Aww, such a bedraggled looking little kitten in that first picture... and so beautiful and confident now! It's great that you rescued her! 
She is colorpointed... and she is also a dilute calico... and she also appears to be a tabby (I see tabby stripes and spots in the blue patches on her face and body). One way to describe her would be as a blue patched lynx point and white domestic shorthair... there are other ways you could describe her color also, such as dilute torbie point with white.
Most cats are not any particular breed, and aren't mixed with specific breeds, unlike dogs. The recessive colorpoint gene originally came from the Siamese breed about 70 years ago... but at this time the colorpoint gene is very widespread in the domestic cat gene pool, and doesn't necessarily indicate recent Siamese ancestry. In one sense, you could consider her a Siamese mix, but her closest Siamese ancestor might have been as many as 100 generations back
She is colorpointed... and she is also a dilute calico... and she also appears to be a tabby (I see tabby stripes and spots in the blue patches on her face and body). One way to describe her would be as a blue patched lynx point and white domestic shorthair... there are other ways you could describe her color also, such as dilute torbie point with white.
Most cats are not any particular breed, and aren't mixed with specific breeds, unlike dogs. The recessive colorpoint gene originally came from the Siamese breed about 70 years ago... but at this time the colorpoint gene is very widespread in the domestic cat gene pool, and doesn't necessarily indicate recent Siamese ancestry. In one sense, you could consider her a Siamese mix, but her closest Siamese ancestor might have been as many as 100 generations back
Wow, that's a pretty dramatic change! Poor little sick baby in the first pic, now a princess. And those crossed eyes! She's lovely.
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Thank you for the insight. We'll never know for sure, as she was found alone, dirty, neglected and hungry in a garage next to a busy road. She is a princess now though!Aww, such a bedraggled looking little kitten in that first picture... and so beautiful and confident now! It's great that you rescued her!
She is colorpointed... and she is also a dilute calico... and she also appears to be a tabby (I see tabby stripes and spots in the blue patches on her face and body). One way to describe her would be as a blue patched lynx point and white domestic shorthair... there are other ways you could describe her color also, such as dilute torbie point with white.
Most cats are not any particular breed, and aren't mixed with specific breeds, unlike dogs. The recessive colorpoint gene originally came from the Siamese breed about 70 years ago... but at this time the colorpoint gene is very widespread in the domestic cat gene pool, and doesn't necessarily indicate recent Siamese ancestry. In one sense, you could consider her a Siamese mix, but her closest Siamese ancestor might have been as many as 100 generations back
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Maybe a calico lynx point? To me she does have those cross eyed eyes that Siamese does have or it could be a bit of brain damage since she was so sick. The blue eye color is because she is predominately white She is stunning.
She is stunning.
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Crossed eyes are associated with colorpoint (a form of albinism), not Siamese breed ancestry specifically. Crossed eyes also appear with higher frequency in albino animals of other species.Maybe a calico lynx point? To me she does have those cross eyed eyes that Siamese does have or it could be a bit of brain damage since she was so sick. The blue eye color is because she is predominately white
Colorpoint cats have blue eyes, so she would be expected to have blue eyes regardless of the amount of white spotting.
wow! What an amazing transformation! Who would have thought that sickly little kitten would have turned out to be such a stunner. Great job nursing her back to health and raising her! 
