My Black Cat Has Red Fur On His Nose, Why?

[ncioelpocoispro]

So, when he was little, it wasn't as proeminent as it is now. People would tell me it would fade away as he got bigger, but it only got bigger with him. I have never seen a cat with a red fur like that. What could that be? Also, he has two sisters who look like Siameses, but the mother and father are not. Can the siamese gene be passed down? They were born white and got darker as they grew.

The two last pictures are from the mother with each daughter.

 

[fingerlakes]

Has that Siamese face... the red/brown is just a genetic anomaly.

 

[Furballsmom]

What a gorgeous family

 

[Willowy]

That's so cool! I wonder if he rubbed or burned his nose when he was young so that it grew back funny. Anyway, I guess it's just what makes him unique .

 

[Maria Bayote]

You can easily pick him among a crowd of cats because of his uniqueness. What a handsome one.

 

[StefanZ]

Yes the siamese gene may be passed on, itself being a recessive gene. So both parents are carriers of the point gene. Typically 1 of 4 kittens will be point 3 non points. But statustics arent ironclad.

Also one parent perhaps is a point but this not very apparent?

 

[Willowy]

If I'm reading it correctly, the OP said the tabby point in the bottom pictures is the mama. So, yeah, about half of her babies would be pointed if daddy's a carrier. Were they the only 3 kittens in the litter?

 

[StefanZ]

If two last pics arent the sisters but momma with sisters, so she is very apparently a point herself. The tabby no?

Thus the statistics with a carrier daddy becomes half half. With 3 kittens we cant get more even.

"Is precisely as in the picture".

 

[StefanZ]

Ps the riddle here is instead at least one kitten should be a tabby as tabby is dominant. Yet I dont see any kitten being clearly tabby. Or?

 

[Willowy]

Hmm, yeah, solid has the same inheritance as other recessive genes like being pointed, right? So she should have had 50% tabby kittens. Well, that's statistics being statistics, I guess .