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[Enkidu]

Hermes and Athena.

 

[Ripple]

Huh? Did you call me?

 

[Ripple]

I'm hiding!
I'm invisible!
Sort of ...

 

[PeteXXX]

Go on .. Turn the page, then!

 

[Reynard]

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Go on .. Turn the page, then!

Aaaaaah, "Book at Bedtime"

 

[Mrs M]

Oscar enjoying a good chew on his pigs snout!
And Sam enjoying some (Oscar free) attention 🥰

 

[Mrs M]

Lovely walk today

 

[newfhouse]

My boys do enjoy their rugby balls.

 

[Ripple]

Spying on me. 👀

 

[Ripple]

 

[ChrisKz]

Mindy ( dirty lil stopout ) escaped twice and on the 8th May .. gave me 6 kittens , 5 black and one that looks like her . It certainly wasn't "George" my ex stud maine coon , or Mindy's brother "Mork"

 

[Threevok]

Mindy ( dirty lil stopout ) escaped twice and on the 8th May .. gave me 6 kittens , 5 black and one that looks like her . It certainly wasn't "George" my ex stud maine coon , or Mindy's brother "Mork"

I see you have BSH Silvers

We had one spotted and on tabby too. Unfortunely the tabby developed a spinal blood clot last year and had to be put to sleep. He would have been 10 years old last Friday. We still have the spotted though

 

[wormo]

Maisy, growing up fast. Nearly 4 months old already.

 

[Reynard]

I see you have BSH Silvers

We had one spotted and on tabby too. Unfortunely the tabby developed a spinal blood clot last year and had to be put to sleep. He would have been 10 years old last Friday. We still have the spotted though

They're not brits @Threevok - and that's not silver either. Just a domestic shorthair black tabbies with very fine spotted (mum) and classic (kitten) markings. The colour is wrong for a silver anyway. The gene *is* present in moggies, although it's not very common.

The silver gene causes an absence of the yellow pigment in a cat's coat (cats only have two basic coat pigments, black & yellow), and as a result, the non-black bits on a cat expressing the silver gene are actually white. Which is what gives you that metallic grey on a tabby, or the white undercoat on a smoke.

What you're actually seeing on that classic tabby is another gene that affects the intensity of the pigment in the coat.

HTH

 

[Reynard]

Mindy ( dirty lil stopout ) escaped twice and on the 8th May .. gave me 6 kittens , 5 black and one that looks like her . It certainly wasn't "George" my ex stud maine coon , or Mindy's brother "Mork"

It's not the ginger moggy longhair boy - else any females would've been tortie-tabby.

The chances are it is her brother if he's either tabby or black. A lot of tabbies carry the gene for non-agouti (i.e. solid coat colour).

Please get your cats neutered. Us peeps involved with rescue are up to our eyeballs in kittens right now. And please make sure that the babies stay with mum for at least 13 weeks so that they are properly weaned, properly socialized and confident, well-rounded kittens.