Searching for more info on mix...key words/details, all I know is tabby with his āMā but thereās def more to him! Heās big boned. Extremely chatty. Ravenous appetite. Mighty warrior. Very playful. Demands attention.
With a big front "bib" and large belly spot like this guy, I'm pretty confident that his white markings are due to the dominant white spotting gene, so that's why I would label him "with white."so how much white a tabby cat must have to be labeled: tabby and white? is there any rule on percentage of body parts that must be white?
Thank you! So now I know my girl is tabby, no white, even that she has a pretty white locketWith a big front "bib" and large belly spot like this guy, I'm pretty confident that his white markings are due to the dominant white spotting gene, so that's why I would label him "with white."
Some cats have just a few white toes, or a small white locket or belly spot. Since this can be due to a recessive factor or even just a random quirk of development, I wouldn't label those cats "with white."
Even with pedigreed cats, many of the breed standards explicitly have a clause allowing "lockets or buttons" on an otherwise solid or tabby cat, with no penalty and without changing the color class to bicolor. Looking through the CFA standards, the following breeds have a clause allowing lockets or buttons: American Bobtail, Cornish Rex, Devon Rex, Japanese Bobtail, La Perm, Lykoi, Manx, Norwegian Forest Cat, Ragamuffin, Scottish Fold, Selkirk Rex, Siberian, and Sphynx.