She is definitely "Blue" (gray)... but is she "Blue something"... other than just solid blue? When her hair lays flat, it looks at first glance like it's just solid blue, but when it parts over a joint, or when I lift it up, it's much lighter underneath. In sunlight, it sort of takes on a light silvery cast or "shine", and her muzzle is also light silvery instead of "pewter". I can't really see ticking or banding in the individual hair strands even with a magnifier, but it does seem to shade lighter toward the base of each individual hair. She has very little undercoat (compared to, say, our Persians, or to a Maine coon or some other very longhaired cat) I also see that where her spay shave is growing back, the base of the hair around the shaved area is lighter than the rest of the shaft... say, about the bottom 1/4 to 1/3 of the hair is silvery, the rest is "pewter". When she moves around, and the fur parts around her elbows or shoulders, you can see flashes of the much whiter/silvery "underside", and of course we have that beautiful silvery "shimmer that shows up in bright light. I tried to get pictures to better describe all of this, but she's just being too silly and wiggly for me to get a good shot! Our old gray girl, Skye, also had the white underneath, but her mother was a purebred Birman and Skye was much longer haired so it was more noticeable. Rain is Domestic, and we have no idea what either parent looked like.
Would she be considered a "blue smoke"?
Would she be considered a "blue smoke"?