Really cool chart for cat-lovers.

[feng_shui_house]

It's a guide to domestic cat coat colors and patterns. The creator says it doesn't cover every possibility, but it sure looks like it to me!

http://www.bestinfographics.info/cat-colors-patterns

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[ultrapsychobrat]

Wow! That's terrific! Thanks.

[feng_shui_house]

Enjoy! I like the way you can invent cat color combos. :^)

[ultrapsychobrat]

Saw a little cat named Marigold on line today. She looks like a color point calico—very unusual. She was found in China, so I wonder if her fur was dyed.

[feng_shui_house]

It's unusual in a chance bred cat, but possible- it's a recognised color in show cats in some breeds. Either a Tortie point (solid calico on the points), or Tortie Lynx point (calico in tabby patterns.)

I think Natasha is possibly a Chocolate Tuxedo Broken Mackerel Caliby. :^)

[miwahni]

I have a seal tortie point Birman, it's quite a pretty look.

[feng_shui_house]

It is lovely!

[pebblerocker]

Oh lovely, that's so interesting! My 3 are of course moggy colours not even slightly unusual (black, grey, ginger), but I like to spot cats in gardens and on windowsills when I ride my bike and I see some gorgeous and unusual ones - dilutes and torbies are the unusual colours I see more often, and there are some gorgeous patchy cats with varying amounts of white.

[feng_shui_house]

It's fun to see them all organized! Even a moggy can be described using the chart and that makes it sound so much more official. :^)

[vilakins]

They've got the colouring of all the cats I've had, though Ashley only turns up under chinchilla instead of tabby. Some of those colourings sound amazing.

[feng_shui_house]

So many beautiful cats! I like to collect pics of pretty ones from the 'net.

[vilakins]

Me too; I pin them.

[feng_shui_house]

I just keep them in folders on the 'puter, and sometimes I look at them when I want to smile, like the kitten that was born with markings that look like 'I <3 .' and his mother's name was 'Dot'. :^)

[feng_shui_house]

Pinning is useful, I'm sure. I just am an inveterate collector. :^)

I'm glad you found Dot's baby. That was so cute!

[vilakins]

Pinning means I don't have to keep a folder on my HD - and when others pin my pins, I can look at what they have and pin some of theirs. Also if there's a story, the pin automatically links back.

I've seen several with <3 marking, but that is absolutely adorable! Oh, I found it online! It was a newborn in someone's hand.

[miwahni]

That was really interesting. I kept thinking 'Aha, they don't have THIS colour / pattern!" and then I'd find it on the chart. :-)
One thing, though - in the Australian Cat Federation we do indeed recognise Amber in Norwegian Forest Cats. The only colours we don't recognise for Nogs are cinnamon, fawn, chocolate and lilac.

[feng_shui_house]

You had to look hard to find something overlooked on that chart! I kept thinking, 'yes,but' and then finding it.

Would be cool if someone made a chart like that for dogs, and for horses. I don't know much about dog color possibilities, but horses are similar to cats, with two base colors (red and black), agouti, points, various dilutions and white spotting.

[vera_j]

Oh wow, this must be an exhausting chart, wow again!
Thank you for sharing...my mind boggles...cats cats cats!!!:-)

[feng_shui_house]

They're so pretty! So many possible color combinations!

[ultrapsychobrat]

I found the pic of the odd mar,ed cat I told you about, but I don't know how to post it on Dreamwidth.

[ultrapsychobrat]

Make that marked.

[feng_shui_house]

Well, you could post the URL as a link, and let people go to the link to see it.

I googled and found it.

https://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-news-blogs/unusual-looking-kitten-resembles-red-panda-164538792--abc-news-topstories.html



It looks to me like a black and white kitten where they've bleached & dyed part of the black fur red. Since it was a Chinese pet store, that seems likely, going by the 'panda dogs' etc. If it actually was a colorpoint, I'd expect the eyes to be much more blue, instead of the hazel turning to common yellow that they seem. Also, if it WAS a colorpoint, at that age I'd think the dark markings would be much smaller.

I'd seen a similar photo four years ago of kittens on a meme called 'the offspring of Firefox and LOLcat'. http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2010/11/19/breaking-news-rumors-of-firefox-dating-lolcat-confirmed/

[muscadinegirl]

This is awesome! Purrfect for a cat lover like me!