How Common Or Rare Is This Fur Pattern/color Combo?

[Vallen]

This is my first time seeing this fur pattern on cat the colors are charcoal black fur with black tabby stripes. My question is how common or rare is this fur pattern?

With good lighting the stripes stand out like a sore thumb as shown in the pics and her name is cinder.

 

[m3rma1d]

Common. But your baby is adorable and I'm sure very special to you, so that's all that matters <3

 

[Vallen]

thanks and that is also vary true .

 

[lutece]

Your sweet little kitten appears to be solid black. Ghost tabby markings like that often appear on solid blue or black kittens; these markings usually fade as the adult coat develops.

 

[Vallen]

well she is fully grown now and still has her tabby markings with adult coat

 

[Vallen]

i for got to metion u do need the sun light to see them now tho.

 

[lutece]

How old is she?

 

[Vallen]

just over 1 year

 

[Vallen]

her birth day was in agust

 

[lutece]

What does her fur look like when you part it and look at the roots of the hair?

 

[maggie101]

Beautiful cat. That is a color I have not seen on a cat- faded black unless it's from light. She is gorgeous!

 

[abyeb]

What a beautiful cat! I’m also curious what her fur looks like when you part it. She might be a smoke. Some black cats have the tabby pattern in hiding, that you can see in the sunlight.

 

[Vallen]

let me take a pic next time she is in

 

[Vallen]

this is her roots
here is a pick i took not too long after she stopped growing and if you look closly on the legs u can see the stripes

 

[lutece]

Ok, she is not a smoke -- She is simply a solid black cat with faint ghost markings. Some solid blue or black cats lose their ghost markings when they become adults, while others retain faint ghost markings as adults.

 

[Vallen]

okay thanks this helps alot .

 

[Boris Diamond]

Whatever you call her color, she surely is beautiful!

 

[Summercats]

Beautiful

 

[Vallen]

Thank you