Calico color combinations - and what is Topaz?

gemlady

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In my 50+ years with cats I have had red/black and blue/cream (dilute) calicos/torties.

Now I have Topaz. This is the best pic showing her colors.


Behind her right ear the black transitions to a lighter color like the points in Siamese. She is an indoor only cat so it is not bleaching from the sun. There is a similar patch near her rump. The lighter color is definitely cream, not red.

So what is her color?
Are there other combinations these days?
 

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A chocolate cream with white.

I had a black smoke (genetically) who's father was a chocolate rex (but more of the burmese color chocolate which is genetically black and not brown). In the summer time she would turn into a chocolate smoke - her fur actually was chocolate brown and she was not bleached by the sun either. In the winter it darken back to the black smoke.

Your cat may have the same thing - one of the parents is a chocolate or has the burmese brown color.

You should show her in the HHP shows
 
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Being a stray I have no ideas what her parents looked like.

So she is a chocolate cream. Looks and sounds good!
 

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Hi There,

My bet would be that she is a regular dominant color Calico (Red Black and white) with the color point gene.

Which is a Calico point :-)

The reason I think this is that she has the blue eyes and as you say the mask and the ears are a bit darker than the body.

The color point gene tends to lighten the color (which you see in the creamish effect of the red).

On various breeds the effect of the color point gene changes dramatically, and the degree of color exposure on the body changes a lot. On snow bengals for instance you see the full spots all over the body - and yet it's the color point gene creating the effect of snow.

Anyway this is my theory about this very special color, in light of the blue eyes... even though blue eyes can be created by other genes as well on Bi-colors.

Regardless of the theories, this girl is gorgeous and very very special.

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Thank you for your input. She is a pretty girl (and opinionated, too.
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Has anyone seen other cats with similar coloration?
 

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She looks to me like a calico cat modified by the tonkinese mink type pointing.

Tonkinese mink:


Calico and tortie cats are basically mixtures of two different cat colours, the red ginger and then black. Any modifying factors that can happen to black and/or the red can show up in calicos and torties.
 
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