#lilac tabby

[amber-tortoiseshell]

I found these lovely cat pics♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡

Omg they are all so cute!!!!! Also... do I see a cinnamon/fawn cats >:3

(That silver one is really interesting)

They are really lovely!

Hm, i think the burmese are too dark to be cinnamon. The laperm is Uluru BC Omaste Po of Quincunx, and she's lilac, not fawn. And i have no proof of this, but i feel like the oriental might be Mundifari's Lahja (that darker stripe on the middle of the forehead seems very distinctive). The "silver one" is a snow bengal! (That still might be silver.)

[identifying-cat-phenotypes]

I saw that you identify drawn kitties if the artist requests so. hi. I come bearing some kitty art of mine :)

hee hee hee,,, ilove identifying drawn kitties....

leftmost cat: black self tortoiseshell with low white!

middle cat: black mackerel tabby with low white!

right cat: lilac mackerel tabby!

neeeeed more people to do this its so fun!

[onemelonthing]

Speckletail 

[amber-tortoiseshell]

Hi again!!

I'm so excited, the shelter I work at got some interesting colored kittens!!

One is solid and one is tabby but they seem to be the same base color. It is definitely not just average blue/grey as they have a sibling who is normal blue/grey. My thoughts were either lilac (dilute chocolate) or fawn (dilute cinnamon) or maybe even lilac based caramel?? What do you think??

You'll have to forgive their appearance, they were trapped from a feral colony, have minor uri and had just been woken from surgery when I took these. I'm going to try to get some better pictures tomorrow!

I'm voting lilac - next to each other, fawn is warmer (well, of course you can't compare them here, but they seem pretty cool-toned to me), and the nose color is closer to lilac for me.

Lilac on the left and middle, fawn on the right

I know next to nothing about caramel in real life, so no comment on that, but like, that's extremely rare.

Very pretty kittens!

[identifying-cat-phenotypes]

is he a black smoke. i dont think hes a black mackerel tabby i think its just ghost tabby stuff going on (hes a kitten) and he might just be a solid black smoke

anyways also try to do the phenotypes of my three cat characters + a lil cat doodle i made a while back

yep! top baby looks like a black self smoke!

Pistachio looks like a lilac mackerel tabby with low white spotting!

Weezer looks like a blue self point and Meezer looks like a black self point!

lastly, the doodle looks like a chocolate mackerel tabby tortoiseshell with low white spotting!

[identifying-cat-phenotypes]

Mink-pointed Calico vs the Ariel & Bridgette twins

Round 1, Match 9

Mink Calico

Red/Lilac tabby Chimera Twins

Voting ended onAug 19, 2024

Images and Propaganda below the cut.

Mink-pointed Tortie Propaganda:

"mink calicos are cutes... like neapolitan ice cream"

Image one (c) Warren Photographic Image two found on Pangur and Grim's Blog

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Chimera Twins Propaganda:

"Chimera/mosacism patterns are very fascinating as a person with mosaicism. With cats I really like Dilute/Non-Dilute or Longhair/Shorthair chimeras due to the dramatic look of them. But the Red and Lilac chimera has to be my top due to just how purple the lilac ends up looking next to the red. I also just want people to learn more about how chimerism and mosaicism work and what better way then showing how cool cats with it can look."

Images (c) BJ Andersen

[identifying-cat-phenotypes]

Unspecified Blue Tabby vs Unspecified Lilac Tabby

Round 1, Match 12

Blue tabby

Lilac tabby

Voting ended onAug 19, 2024

Images and Propaganda below the cut.

Blue Tabby Propaganda:

(none submitted)

Image (c) Wikimedia Commons

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Lilac Tabby Propaganda:

(none submitted)

Image (c) Lola Nilsson

[amber-tortoiseshell]

What parents can a beige-ish light grey cat with tabby markings have ? Asking bc I have an OC like that

I have two ideas for a cat like that, one more common and one fancy:

Black tabby point

A_ B_ cscs D_ o(o) ww

In this case at least one parent has to be a tabby, at least one dense (aka not diluted), both carry or express pointed and most likely neither has extreme white spotting (but full white is possible). The mother is black- or tortie-based, and if your oc was born female, then the father is black-based. (Otherwise he can be red.)

Lilac tabby

A_ bb C_ dd o(o) ww

Again, at least one parent is a tabby, at least on is fully colored (as opposed to any type of colorpoint), both carry or express chocolate and dilution, and, again, most likely neither has extreme white spotting with full white being possible. Same with the orange gene, too: black- or tortie-based mother, and black-based father for a female offspring.

So, in both cases you have a lot of possibility, just don't make both parents solid.

If neither of these cats really matches your vision... well, you can always send a pic that shows a closer example, and i'll recalibrate.