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I've read a bunch of articles (including the one on this site) about cat coat coloring and I'm still struggling to pinpoint the right way to classify my new DSH kitten's look. When I got her a few weeks ago, I called her silver tipped blue, bc she had an obvious shimmer to her gray coat and bc I specifically asked the rescue for a Russian Blue coat color profile and feel like I got what I was looking for.
But now that she's started to shed, I see that her individual hairs are light (appearing almost white but maybe silver) for most of the shaft from the base on up, then a much smaller dark portion on top of that (presumably gray, but hard to gauge on individual hairs), then an even smaller white or silver tip. She does have some faint tabby markings on her tail, and sometimes I think I see them, barely, on her flank, so I wondered if she could be a ticked tabby, even though she looks solid. In one of the pics, you can see she has a very small portion of white fur under her back legs, but I'm not sure if she'll lose it with age.
Also curious if she has an undercoat. How can you tell? I thought not, but when I brush her, white kinky hairs come off, so does that mean she does?
Thanks for any input. I know it's splitting hairs, so to speak, to ask about this level of detail, but I'm new to the cat world and very curious. (And as someone who grew up with dogs, where you could guess at a mutt's breed mix and then offer that when people asked, I feel like DSH is a totally unhelpful response when people ask what kind of cat I adopted. I got her from a rescue. Of course she's a D*H. I'd love to have a better descriptor, though, because I think that's what ppl are really asking about.)
But now that she's started to shed, I see that her individual hairs are light (appearing almost white but maybe silver) for most of the shaft from the base on up, then a much smaller dark portion on top of that (presumably gray, but hard to gauge on individual hairs), then an even smaller white or silver tip. She does have some faint tabby markings on her tail, and sometimes I think I see them, barely, on her flank, so I wondered if she could be a ticked tabby, even though she looks solid. In one of the pics, you can see she has a very small portion of white fur under her back legs, but I'm not sure if she'll lose it with age.
Also curious if she has an undercoat. How can you tell? I thought not, but when I brush her, white kinky hairs come off, so does that mean she does?
Thanks for any input. I know it's splitting hairs, so to speak, to ask about this level of detail, but I'm new to the cat world and very curious. (And as someone who grew up with dogs, where you could guess at a mutt's breed mix and then offer that when people asked, I feel like DSH is a totally unhelpful response when people ask what kind of cat I adopted. I got her from a rescue. Of course she's a D*H. I'd love to have a better descriptor, though, because I think that's what ppl are really asking about.)
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