Strange coat color -- guard hairs

[speakhandsforme]

Hi there,

We adopted a 9 week old black male DSH about three weeks ago. He seems to have an inordinate amount of guard hairs for a black kitty, and he also has ghost tabby stripes. He has a sparse white locket too.

But his belly is what I'm most curious about... It's strange. Almost a mix between gray and black color. I don't know what the official term is, but I would call it smoke.

Here are some (blurry) pics:

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• speakhandsforme
• Aug 5, 2012

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• speakhandsforme
• Aug 5, 2012

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• speakhandsforme
• Aug 5, 2012

Is this an unsound or fever coat? Or is he just a weird little baby? :lol3:

 

[speakhandsforme]

Here are some more pictures. I have these with flash and no flash, with him lying on a red couch under an incandescent light next to my tuxedo boy, Boots.



More belly pics

With flash

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• speakhandsforme
• Aug 5, 2012

No flash

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• speakhandsforme
• Aug 5, 2012

With Boots

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• speakhandsforme
• Aug 5, 2012

You can see how much lighter he is

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• speakhandsforme
• Aug 5, 2012

More belly

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• speakhandsforme
• Aug 5, 2012

And one of his foreleg so you can see the faint tabby stripes,

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• speakhandsforme
• Aug 5, 2012

His locket

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• speakhandsforme
• Aug 5, 2012

Finally, the other side. next to Boots again

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• speakhandsforme
• Aug 5, 2012

With the locket and the belly, it almost seems like he's trying very hard to be a tuxedo cat... but just can't quite make it. :lol3:

 

[mrblanche]

You won't know for a while, but it could be fevercoat, I guess.  Or just a sprinking of white.  Who knows?