#high white

[identifying-cat-phenotypes]

This is my Stoat cat. I have no idea how to describe anything about her than weird, she is very odd and about 1 year old. I love my beautiful Stoat. I mean cat. Thanks for any insight you have!

ummm we only identify cats here? this is clearly closer to some kind of mustelid with the patterning of a blue self cat with high white

[warrior-cats-genetics]

hi everyonee back at it again with phenotyping my own ocs! this time i've got a couple parents and their kid, which lets me get into the nitty gritty of how i make my ocs genetically accurate heheh in order these are hazelstar, jinglehop, and bells!

hazelstar is a shorthair cinnamon classic tabby with high white! her being cinnamon is a bit iffy, the stripes are a little dark for cinnamon, but i don't car 💖

jinglehop is a shorthair cinnamon spotted tabby with low white! his stripes are a... bit hard to see, but this was the intent. the spotted tabby gene is a modifier to mackerel, and results in a sort of gradient from full stripes to full spots!

bells is a shorthair fawn/cream classic tabby tortioiseshell with low white! fawn is the dilute of cinnamon, making bells a dilute tortie! i still classify her as shorthair despite looking kind of longhair since that was my intention, i just tend to draw cats pretty fluffy

now... below the cut, i will discuss how i reverse-engineered hazelstar to make her parents as genetically accurate as possible!

first off, all cats are shorthair, so we can ignore that gene, assuming nobody carries longhair.

for color, i was sort of forced into making jingle and bells both cinnamon-- black-base colors are on sort of a dominance scale, which is hard to explain? but in essence, black is dominant to all, chocolate is dominant to cinnamon, and cinnamon is recessive to all. [BB -> bb -> blbl; B is black, b is choco, bl is cinnamon]

so, if either of them were black or chocolate, hazel would be too. full red is out of the question for bells, since that would make hazel a tortie! so, jingle got just regular cinnamon, and bells got to be a tortie to make things a little more visually interesting. being fawn/cream, she could pass either red or cinnamon onto hazelstar, and just happened to pass cinnamon.

the tabby patterns are where it got interesting for me: i didn't want everyone to be classic, but classic is recessive to mackerel, so both parents had to at the least carry classic. my decision was to make one parent [bells] present classic, while the other [jingle] carried it, but i got a teensy bit carried away while drawing jingle, and he ended up spotted, which... makes the genes pretty interesting!

you see, spotted tabby [Sp] is a modifier as stated above, but it only works on mackerel. the classic tabby gene doesn't have the right proteins to present it. this makes the problem of spotted being dominant to non-spotted kind of a non-issue, but means that hazelstar is a spotted tabby under her classic. which i don't mind, that's fun! [jinglehop is SpSp, fully spotted. bells can be anything, but i'm calling her spsp, non-spotted. hazelstar thus ends up as Spsp, spotted and carrying non-spotted!]

white spotting is also pretty curious with these guys. the parents are both low white, but their kit is high white! how is this possible? well, the white gene works in interesting ways; low white is coded as Wsw [white + non-white, i believe], but if you combine two dominant white genes, you get high white [WsWs]! so, jingle and bells simply both passed their Ws genes and had a half-white kitten. [ww is full non-white, if you were wondering]

now, if anyone was interested in the letter vomit that is their resulting genetic strings [unimportant genes excluded] here ya go: hazelstar: XoXoLLblblDdmcmcSpspWsWs jinglehop: XoYLLblblDDMcmcSpSpWsw bells: XOXoLLblblddmcmcspspWsw reminder that these are completely amateur and likely inaccurate ^^ i'm just havin fun

[tit-anus]

A closer look at the snick snack

[identifying-cat-phenotypes]

This is choco. She is a SPOILED and the meanest little princess. I love her sm.

pretty pretty choco is a seal colourpoint with high white!

[identifying-cat-phenotypes]

Hi! I just wanted to show you my childhood cat Bob, who was the most chill cat I have ever seen :D

+ a couple slightly clearer pictures, which happen to also show my other childhood cat Shelby, who was basically anxiety in cat form.

awesome cream tabby with high white and distinguished black self with low white! what a charmingly matched pair of fellows!

[identifying-cat-phenotypes]

a pair of fine specimens,

black self with low white and red tabby with high white! very pretty specimens indeed!

[identifying-cat-phenotypes]

what kinda kitty is this!!!! never seen one like him before! 🤯🤯

this pretty kitty is one of my favourites! she looks like a black mink point tortoiseshell with high white!