![]() Some cat owners know their white-coated Maine Coon’s masked color because there is a small marking on the top of the head that shows off the color when they are a kitten.īut it vanishes when the cat is a few months old.Īccording to the Cat Fanciers Association, you have a solid white-colored Maine Coon if the cat also has pink paw pads with a pink nose tip. Only genetics determine if the masking gene will turn kittens white or their original color. You’ll only get a white-coated Maine Coon if one of the breeding parents has a solid-white coat. In fact, you can often tell the “hidden” color of a white-coated Maine Coon mother after she gives birth because some of the litter will present with coats that are her true color! Others will be white like her! Wikicommons Genetically, white Maine Coons have a special gene that masks their true underlying color. What you’re seeing is really the absence of color instead of a color. This is where the story of white-coated Maine Coons gets interesting! White-coated Maine Coons aren’t actually white. I can tell you that having a Maine Coon with an unconventional coat color is really fun because people are always curious about how I found such an exotic, rare cat. I’m pretty partial to white-colored Maine Coon cats because this shade is just a whisper away from my silver-coated Chelle. But don’t forget, they are still prime, athletic hunters! I personally find them to be supernatural, spiritual and stunning!Ī white-coated Maine Coon is the ultimate indoor cat if you’re looking for a something to pamper. White-coated Maine Coons are highly prized because people love the way their coats radiate and glisten in the sun like crystals. Shell color cats have 12% or 1/8 of the hair ends are colored.These beauties are snowy and ethereal, and I feel like I’ve stepped into a fantasy realm when I see the glowing all white coat and green, amber or copper eyes. Shaded color cats have 33% or 1/3 of the hair ends are colored. Silver color cats have more than 33% of the hair ends colored. How to tell the difference between the shaded, shell, and silver cats? All solid colors can be affected by the inhibitor gene which labels them “Smoke” plus the underlining solid color.Įxample: Solid Blue + Inhibitor Gene = Blue SmokeĮxample: Solid Red + Inhibitor Gene = Red Smoke This means that the cat's hairs are dark (usually black) at the tips but have much lighter colored bands near the bottom. Smoke Color Maine Coons are a solid color cat that carries the inhibitor gene which suppresses the color in the hair shaft. The dilute gene must be present in both the sire and dam’s pedigree in order to produce dilute offspring. ![]() Modify the dilution and it becomes "caramel". Shaded silvers, black smokes and chinchilla cats may look various shades of grey or silver, but they are black cats with silver roots to their fur. ![]() In the Asian breed (self Burmese cats) it has a breed name to itself "Bombay". In Burmese it is "sable" or "seal sepia" and in American Tonkinese it is "cinnamon" or "natural mink". ![]() In colour-pointed cats, "black" is called "seal". The jet-black colour you known as "black" is called "ebony" and "ebony tabby" in Orientals, "black" in solid coloured domestic shorthairs, "brown" when it refers to brown tabby domestic shorthairs, "bronze" in Egyptian Maus, "tawny" in Ocicats and "ruddy" in Abyssinians. Confused? Don't worry - there are some cross-reference tables later on! American registries like to add "mink" after the Tonkinese colors whereas British registries use the same name for that color as is used in the equivalent Siamese or Burmese colour. Even in the same breed, the color may have different names depending on which country the cat comes from and which registry it is registered with. The same colors are called by different names in different breeds. Colors that appear identical to the human eye are caused by different genetic interactions. Even where the same name is used, there may be different views on what is an acceptable or ideal version of that color. Why are there not five basic colors? White is counted as an absence of color rather than a color.ĭifferent countries, registries and breeds have different names for some of the same basic colours. Red is a form of tabby as it is impossible to completely eliminate the tabby markings. All other solid colors are modifications of these. Genetically there are four basic solid colors of cats: black, chocolate, cinnamon and red.
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