What would kittens of longhaired black classic tabby tom and shorthaired solid lilac shecat look like :)
If the she-cat carries longhaired, each kit will have a 50/50 chance of being longhaired vs. shorthaired. Otherwise, every kit will be longhaired.
If the tom carries chocolate or cinnamon (doesn’t matter which, but keep in mind that these colors are super rare outside of certain breeds and would be unlikely to appear in randombreds), each kit will have a 50/50 chance of being chocolate vs. black. Otherwise, every kit will be black.
If the tom carries dilute, each kit will have a 50/50 chance of being dilute (blue/grey instead of black, lilac instead of chocolate). Otherwise, every kit will be non-dilute.
If the tom carries the non-tabby gene, each kit will have a 50/50 chance of being solid vs. classic tabby. Otherwise, every kit will be a classic tabby.
Tl;dr: most likely are black classic tabbies but depending on genetics, potentially also: blue classic tabbies, chocolate classic tabbies, lilac classic tabbies, solid black, solid blue, solid chocolate, and solid lilac. Both long and short hair are possible.
Can you help me with a a few litters? I have two fathers and two mothers and need results of each father with each mother (so four results).
Father A is a black classic tabby who shows as light brown (appears golden). He has low white (maybe 20/30%) and green eyes. He carries solid from his mother and smoke from his father.
Father B is a golden bengal with white paws and chest, and carries heterochromania from his mother but doesnt have it himself (wasnt sure if that increased chances).
Mother A is a blue mink ticked tabby bicolor (vastly white with blotches) carrying dilute, mackerel tabby, and epistatic white with blue eyes.
Mother B is a black solid bicolor (vastly white with blotches), carrying epistatic and classic tabby and blue eyes.
Thank you so much in advanced.
No Problem!
However, there are a few problems. Firstly, we can’t really do eye colors outside of “does it make sense for a cat with this pattern to have blue eyes”. Eye color just isn’t very predictable outside of that, sorry.
Secondly, a cat can’t carry epistatic white because epistatic white is dominant. I’m going to treat your descriptions of Mother A and Mother B as though they’re epistatic white and genetically carrying these other colors and patterns, but keep in mind that in order to pass on epistatic white, a cat has to be epistatic white themselves. Also, keep in mind that an epistatic white cat with blue eyes has a very high chance of deafness!
Similarly, Father A cannot carry smoke because the silver inhibitor gene that causes smoke is also dominant – he has to be silver or smoke to be able to pass it on. I’m going to treat him as a silver classic tabby.
Thirdly, ‘bengal’ is technically a breed, not a pattern. I assume you mean a rosetted bengal, since that’s what most people picture when they say bengal, but bengals can come in other patterns depending on their pedigree, so keep that in mind.
Lastly, being a little nitpicky here, but a blue cat can’t carry dilute because she is dilute.
Their genetics under the cut!
1. Father A & Mother A
Each kit has a 50% chance of being epistatic white.
If Father A carries dilute, kits have a 50/50 chance of being blue instead of black. Otherwise, they’re all going to be black or black-based tabbies.
If Mother A carries solid, each kit has a 25% chance of being solid. Otherwise, all kits will be agouti of some description. Each agouti kit has a 50% chance of being a ticked tabby. If Mother A carries classic, each non-ticked agouti kit has a 50% chance of being a classic tabby. If Mother A doesn’t carry classic, every non-ticked agouti kit will be mackerel.
Each kit has a 50% chance of being anywhere from 0-60% white, and a 50% chance of being anywhere from 40-100% white.
2. Father A & Mother B
Each kit has a 50% chance of being epistatic white.
Every kit will be black or a black-based tabby.
Each kit has a 50% chance of being solid vs. agouti. Every agouti kit will be a classic tabby.
Each kit has a 50% chance of being anywhere from 0-60% white, and a 50% chance of being anywhere from 40-100% white.
3. Father B & Mother A
Each kit has a 50% chance of being epistatic white.
If Father B carries dilute, kits have a 50/50 chance of being blue instead of black. Otherwise, they’re all going to be black-based tabbies.
Each kit has a 50% chance of being a ticked tabby. If a kit isn’t a ticked tabby, it’ll probably exhibit a marble pattern. I’m not super familiar with the genetics of bengal patterns, so that’s really all I can give here.
Each kit has a 50% chance of being anywhere from 0-60% white, and a 50% chance of being anywhere from 40-100% white.
4. Father B & Mother B
Each kit has a 50% chance of being epistatic white.
All the kits will be black or black-based tabbies.
Each kit has a 50% chance of being solid. If a kit isn’t solid, it’ll probably exhibit a marble pattern.
Each kit has a 50% chance of being anywhere from 0-60% white, and a 50% chance of being anywhere from 40-100% white.
What would a cream point molly and a brown classic tabby tom with 20% white kits look like?
Ginger toms and tortoiseshell she-cats. 50-100% should be tabbies. Of those tabbies, you can either have only classic tabbies, only mackerel tabbies, or a 50/50 split of classic and mackerel tabbies.
If the tom carries dilute, 50% should be dilute (ginger > cream, tortoiseshell > blue-cream tortie). 50% should have about the same amount of white as the tom.
If the tom carries a pointing or albinism gene, the kits will have a 50% of being point or mink.
Could a brown classic tabby (black stripes) and no white spotting be the father to a solid blue tom with less than 15% white spotting? What would the mother have to carry to make this possible? If impossible, what would the father need to carry instead?
This is definitely possible! The father needs to be carrying solid (it’s recessive, so he can carry solid while still being a tabby). The mother would need to either be solid herself or carry solid (either works), and she’d also need to have a little bit of white spotting herself. She also cannot be red or cream -- she has to either be a tortie or a non-red color. Those are really the only requirements to make this kit possible, though!
what would the kits of a classic brown tabby tom and a low white (white paws) mackerel brown tabby she-cat look like? would they have any black kittens?
Brown mackerel tabbies! Half with a little white on them like the father.
Yes, they could have black kittens if both carry solid!
What would the kits of a Blue-cream tortoiseshell she-cat and a dark ginger (his brown is chocolate) tom look like? Also what would the kits of a White she-cat with blue eyes (she'd be grey if she wasn't white) and a brown classic tabby tom with copper eyes look like? I hope you don't mind that I asked about two couples!
For the first pair:
Ginger tabby males, Brown tabby males, Brown tabby females, and tortie females.
For the second pair:
Brown mackerel (unless the she-cat carries classic) tabbies. All will hvae less then 50% white on them.
