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This is my kitty, Viseryn. His momma is a 12 pound fluffy chocolate brown furball with a gorgeous, fluffy tail and demonic yellow eyes. When we got her, we were told she was a mix of Maine Coon, Bengal, and Siamese but I pretty much doubt that. His daddy is unknown for sure, but suspected to be a big, grey marble tabby with a magnificent shaggy coat who often hangs out around our porch. His momma has been fixed since she had her litter. Viseryn, his momma, and all of his siblings also have polydactylism; they are all mitten kitties. They have thumbs.
Viseryn was not the smallest of his litter, but he was the weakest. For the first few days I had to repeatedly place him back on the feeding pile throughout the day because he kept getting forced to the side. We also had to get eye drops for him when one of his eyes wouldn't open. Of his litter mates, he is the only one who didn't come out with a traditional tabby pattern. Two of his brothers and his sister are brown tabbys (the boys with long hair, the girl short), and one of his brothers came out with a grey marble coat identical to the stray I mentioned (thick shaggy fur and all).
Viseryn, on the other hand, came out solid white from head to tail on the day he was born. I wonder sometimes if that was the problem; maybe he was easier to see when everybody had their eyes closed, a brighter area in the darkness, and so it was easier to find him and push him off? Regardless, his coat started to change fairly soon, first turning lightly grey at his ears, tail, and feet and then slowly darkening. Since then the fur on the back and around the base of his ears has darkened considerably; it is dark grey with a light brown tint. His paws are a little special; the back of his paws is considerably darker than the front, both on his forelegs and hind legs. His tail is the same, much darker on top than on the bottom. The darker color is the same, dark grey with light brown tint, but unlike his ears his tail and all his paws have clear tabby markings, as well. So does his face, for that matter, including the clear M. Eventually a little color showed up down his back, over his spine; it is reminiscent of a dirty snowball. His eyes are a light and pale blue.
He's also huge. He's six months old and he's about 8 1/2 lbs, and he's not particularly fat. What you see up there is mostly his winter coat, which is as thick as his dads but as fluffy and silky as his moms. He's just a big kitten; his brother Stormy, the grey marble litter mate, is about the same. Both of them are close to their momma in size, and seem destined to outsize the dominant male in the house (a 13 lb ginger). His other siblings were all much smaller.
Viseryn is extremely friendly and somewhat pushy about it. He has absolutely no problem walking up and shoving his head into your arms until you pet him. He loves to cuddle, especially; he will climb up into my arms when I'm sitting on the couch and insist on it, and spends most of the night sleeping on me. Nor is he shy about vocalization; he meows, and trills, and all of that as needed. He doesn't keep me up at night yowling or anything, but he's not afraid to let me know when he wants something.
Does any of this sound like any particular breed? I've heard the colorpoint pattern points to Siamese somewhere in the ancestry. Is that true?