Cat Lover: RE: [PER] Re:HELP PLEASE:)) SMOKE OR ...???? [2 Attachments]

[Attachment(s) from Arturo Rios included below]

If you all please forgive me for not cleaning this kitties eyes before taking the picture (they were just opening), let me try it as an example to illustrate a diluted smoke color. This is a lilac calico smoke girl (lilac cream and white, very low white), you may notice the fainted lines above the eyes, which are not really agouti tabby lines, they are not noticeable on the body. Hope it helps.

Cheers!

Arturo

CC: carabottcats@yahoo.com; Persian-Fanciers@yahoogroups.com
To: bredalia@sonic.net
From: jerdawn@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:28:52 -0600
Subject: Re: [PER] Re:HELP PLEASE:)) SMOKE OR ...????

I agree with barbara for the most part, but need to warn that frequently you will see the white or light color around the eyes (referred to as clown markings) yet the cat will not be a smoke. As a smoke breeder I have been fooled too many times by the clown markings on tiny kittens that later show no smoke at all. I will say that this is usually in kittens that had a smoke parent. I assume the same can happen with tabby.

BTW, I LOVE dilute smokes!

Dawna Roskelley

Konfettikat

On Apr 12, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Barbara Redalia wrote:

Hi Keely
I have viewed all the photos of your kitten from 2 silver parents, as
shown on the recent Persian digest, and agree that she appears to be
a blue smoke and white. Smokes typically have the light or white color
around their eyes at birth, and share that Inhibitor gene with
silvers. It seems likely that one of her silver parents must have had
the white spotting gene along with the silver characteristics.
Otherwise it is hard to account for the white colored patches on the
legs and body of this kitten. Like you, I see no evidence of the tabby
gene that one expects in silvers. It would be interesting to see her
full pedigree to account for
her unusual combination of characteristics. Thank you for sharing this
unusual baby! We currently have a black smoke bred to a bicolor male
and may see something similar to this in their offspring, except that
they both carry chocolate, which may make it even more unusual.
Barbara Redalia
<www.tuleburg.net>