CAT COLOURS AND PATTERNS – Part 4
TICKED/AGOUTI COLOURS
Genetically, ticking is a tabby pattern, but visually it looks very different. Each individual hair has several bands of colour which affects the apparent colour of the cat. Some colours are linked to the cat's sex
Genetically, ticking is a tabby pattern, but visually it looks very different. Each individual hair has several bands of colour which affects
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| Black | (Experimental colour) The black fur has a distinct “shimmer” due to barely visible ticking, similar effect in Chausie breed has silver-tipped fur. |
| Blue | Blue-grey; the dilute of black |
| Brown | Equivalent to black (more commonly called Usual or Tawny) |
| Chestnut/Chocolate | Medium-dark brown. |
| Cream | True (sex-linked) cream, dilute of sex-linked red |
| Ebony | Foreign equivalent to black |
| Fawn (Beige) | non sex-linked cream (dilute sorrel) |
| Golden | Any colour ticking on a golden undercoat |
| Ivory | Warm beige ticking on ivory (Singapura) |
| Lavender (Lilac) | Warm blue-brown, pinkish frosty grey (dove grey), dilute of Chocolate |
| Manilla | black/dark ticking on sandy-golden (Celonese/Ceylon Cat) |
| Red | Rich ginger red (sex-linked red) |
| Ruddy | Equivalent to black/brown, also called Usual, Brown, Tawny |
| Sable | Burmese dark brown (genetically black) |
| Seal | Siamese dark brown (genetically black) |
| Silver | Any colour ticking on a silver undercoat |
| Sorrel | Equivalent to cinnamon, non sex-linked red. |
| Taupe | Caramel dilution of lilac/lavender |
| Tawny | Abyssinian/Somali: Equivalent to black/brown, also called Usual, Brown, Ruddy; it is also the ticked sandy/golden colour found in a some wild/domestic hybrid breeds |
| Usual | Equivalent to black/brown, also called Ruddy, Brown, Tawny |
| White | Suqutranese (white Somali-type): pure white, translucent silver-white bands on hair visible in good light as sparkling effect |
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