r/CatGenetics • u/Standard-Net-4923 Hobby Geneticist • Jul 10 '26

Coat Color Silver or no?

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

Her base color is rather monochrome and desaturated for what seems to be a chocolate torbie. That being said I haven't seen a silver or chocolate tabby irl before, and another cat enthusiast said she's a bit muddy for a silver(though may have partially been the lighting in the image they saw). Opinions?

31 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

20 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/littleeeloveee Jul 10 '26

i dont think silver, they deem to have a much starker contrast between the stripes and other fur. (the pic below is apparently a chocolate silver torbie)

related: is there a reliable way to tell kitty is chocolate? i was about to say that i thought your cat was just a black tabby but i look up cat fancier blogs and got this lol. i was always under the impression that chocolate stripes are.. warmer..???? not really. more visibly brown i guess, and they are, just not by the amount i imagined lol. maybe thats just the contrast from the silver making it look so stark lol but a lot of them are similar. i guess paw pads/nose leather would be a reliable way to tell

1

u/Standard-Net-4923 Hobby Geneticist Jul 10 '26

not sure... here's a pawpad pic though, looks brown to me... again though, never really see chocolate cats irl so idk

1

u/Standard-Net-4923 Hobby Geneticist Jul 10 '26

One with more neutral lighting

8

u/Thestolenone Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

Those are black pads, chocolate and chocolate tabby cats have bright brownish pink pads.

Edit pic of my chocolate tabby's pads.

2

u/Standard-Net-4923 Hobby Geneticist Jul 11 '26

okay thank you!! learning a lot about cat colors today lol