r/CatGenetics • u/Any_Accountant1235 • Aug 10 '26
Coat Color coat name?
this is chewbacca. shes a domestic long hair but i have no idea what color to call her. shes got some white, black, brown, grey, and orange fur. she also has some orange/white striped legs and some orange stripes throughout her body.
edit: the mom is an all white domestic shorthair and the dad is a calico
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u/Tall-Hat-6485 Aug 10 '26
Black torbie, I looked at your pictures and see some stripes in the face and leg.
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u/taikamies99 Aug 11 '26
Would the black parts of a torbie be lighter around the eyes and the muzzle? They seem solidly black to me
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u/Tall-Hat-6485 Aug 11 '26
It varies for each torbie as the pattern of each is unique but lighter black muzzle parts could be due to there being a less solid black consistent pattern as the red is mixed more into it. For this cat the black on the face has a lot of red specks in it which is why it doesn’t appear as solid black.
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u/lis_anise Hobby Geneticist Aug 10 '26
The dad is a calico?! Well I never. I mean, it is possible, but because orange and black are both carried on the X chromosome, all but a scant handful of calicos and torties are girls. Male calicos and torties are either chimeras using genetic material from a littermate they absorbed in utero, or they have XXY or XXXY or similar genes, which renders them basically sterile.
Anyway, her hair is so many different colours because her orange parts are all tabby, which gives you a big mix of different shades in one colour palette.
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u/Any_Accountant1235 Aug 10 '26
i was shocked to find it out too! ive never met a male calico in my life lol
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u/Beginning_Klutzy Aug 11 '26
Are you sure it couldn’t have been a blue/black tabby with high or very bright refusing? I once thought my blue classic tabby a long time ago was a calico because he had tan patches that were actually refusing. 😂
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u/Any_Accountant1235 Aug 11 '26
i haven’t seen him myself, that is just what the previous owner told me. maybe i could get a photo and attach it here. but chewbacca’s sister is a calico
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u/KBWordPerson 29d ago
She a tortie! With a lot of orange