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post #1 of 45
5/22/11 at 5:05pm
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I recently adopted a wonderful little kitten from the local animal shelter. She is gorgeous- an even cocoa brown all over. I know very little about cat breeds, but I see a lot of kittens volunteering at the shelter, and have never seen a brown kitten or cat before! I know she most likely not a purebred or even a "mix", but I like to speculate on what breeds she might have mixed in there. Any theories?
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post #2 of 45
5/22/11 at 5:07pm
Havana Brown? Of course, without papers she's just a Domestic Short Hair. (Or Long Hair!)

However, I HAVE seen cats and kittens at the shelter that were actually black but looked brown due to health reasons.
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post #3 of 45
5/22/11 at 5:09pm
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Uh oh, I hope she's Ok. Certainly seems healthy to me. And I have seen black cats with a brown tinge, but this little girl is really really just brown. I'd post a picture, but I can't figure out how
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post #4 of 45
5/22/11 at 10:49pm
We do need pics! The color alone isnt enough...

I saw an older english cat book, perhaps from 1950-es? Where they had breed schematic´s based on colors...

Of course, there were lesser amount of recognized breeds these days...


So, it is enough with color, nor even description. A couple of good photos are necessary to have a beginning.
Especielly as most breeds does come in several colors - with russian blue and Korat as the very few exceptions....
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post #5 of 45
5/23/11 at 5:22am
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Originally Posted by teamcarp33 View Post
Uh oh, I hope she's Ok. Certainly seems healthy to me. And I have seen black cats with a brown tinge, but this little girl is really really just brown. I'd post a picture, but I can't figure out how
There's a guide for posting pictures somewhere around here, but it boils down to this.

You upload the photos to one of the free hosting sites, such as Photobucket. Copy the url of the photo on that site, come here, post a message, and up at the top of the message form there is an icon that looks like a mountain with the sun over it. Click on that, paste the url of the hosted photo in the blank, click "OK," and then "Submit Reply."

It works best to have photos about 640x480 pixels.
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post #6 of 45
5/24/11 at 9:29pm
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Here she is!




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post #7 of 45
5/24/11 at 9:33pm
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post #8 of 45
5/24/11 at 9:48pm
I have no idea what breed she could be. She is beautiful.
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post #9 of 45
5/24/11 at 10:02pm
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I recently adopted this lovely kitten from my local animal shelter. She's brown! Any ideas about which breeds of cats can be brown, and where the brown gene might come from?

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post #10 of 45
5/25/11 at 12:09am
Wow! Gorgeous kitty! I've never seen that color before...so pretty!
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post #11 of 45
5/25/11 at 12:26am
Beautiful!

I don't know anything about breeds, but I see some tabby markings on her.

I've Googled and some cats that come in the brown-ish colour are:

Havanah Brown
Burmese
Tabby
Oriental
Persian
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post #12 of 45
5/25/11 at 7:56am
I have no clue as to what she may have been descended from, but she is a beautiful, unique kitty.
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post #13 of 45
5/25/11 at 9:20am
The color is called chocolate. Chocolate is one of the basic cat colors (other are black, red and tortoiseshell, chocolate is a rare one though), and the diluted version of it is cinnamon. Chocolate is recessive, which means that both of the parents must carry it or be one themselves to produce chocolate offspring.
It looks a bit like she could be silver too, is the undercoat 'white'? If it is, then she is a chocolate smoke.
She is pretty. Doesn't remind me of any specific breed, would be easier to throw in any guesses after she's grown up.
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post #14 of 45
5/25/11 at 9:26am
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Originally Posted by Natalie_ca View Post
Beautiful!

I don't know anything about breeds, but I see some tabby markings on her.

I've Googled and some cats that come in the brown-ish colour are:

Havanah Brown
Burmese
Tabby
Oriental
Persian
Tabby is a pattern, not a breed. The kitten in the pictures is solid (non-agouti), doesn't have actual tabby markings, what you see are called 'ghost markings' which usually disappear when the cat grows up. (But if she is a smoke they can stay more visible).

Many breeds come with chocolate color (for example almost all colorpointed breeds, Brit, Foldie, Ocicat, all rexes, and the list goes on and on, so there could be anything in her).
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post #15 of 45
5/25/11 at 9:31am
She is chocolate (possibly smoke). I posted a longer reply to the other thread.
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post #16 of 45
5/25/11 at 9:46am
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Interesting, thanks! Her underbelly is brown too, but some of her hairs have a lighter color at the base, and a darker brown color toward the tip. I guess her "ghost markings" will probably disappear then. She's a sweet hilarious kitten, and breed certainly doesn't matter, but the genetics behind it is so fascinating to learn about....
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post #17 of 45
5/25/11 at 10:03am
Hard to tell in the pics, but are the whiskers white, or brown? If brown, then it's a Havana Brown. If white, then probably a DSH with chocolate coloring
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post #18 of 45
5/25/11 at 10:12am
WOWZA......I have no idea but she is GORGEOUS!!!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the chocolate color....
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post #19 of 45
5/25/11 at 1:27pm
Whoa, she's so beautiful...
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post #20 of 45
5/25/11 at 1:55pm
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Originally Posted by Draco View Post
Hard to tell in the pics, but are the whiskers white, or brown? If brown, then it's a Havana Brown. If white, then probably a DSH with chocolate coloring
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At least some of the choco BSHs I've seen have had brown whiskers and they aren't Havana Browns so I wouldn't count on that one. Some had brown/white.
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post #21 of 45
5/25/11 at 2:16pm
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oh my goodness love at first sight

what a beauty!!! she's one of the most beautiful cats i've seen all year.

i want to kiss that cat
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post #22 of 45
5/25/11 at 2:20pm
That is, indeed, one gorgeous cat!
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post #23 of 45
5/25/11 at 2:22pm
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Originally Posted by NorthernGlow View Post
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At least some of the choco BSHs I've seen have had brown whiskers and they aren't Havana Browns so I wouldn't count on that one. Some had brown/white.
ah. I could be wrong. I only went by what I learned about Havana Browns via Cats 101 and research on the web (I wanted to get one for a while and wanted to learn more). I learned that brown whiskers are a required trait that Havana Brown's must have

I didn't realize brown whiskers could carry to other breeds too! Thought it was just HB's only trait
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post #24 of 45
5/25/11 at 2:30pm
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Originally Posted by Draco View Post
ah. I could be wrong. I only went by what I learned about Havana Browns via Cats 101 and research on the web (I wanted to get one for a while and wanted to learn more). I learned that brown whiskers are a required trait that Havana Brown's must have

I didn't realize brown whiskers could carry to other breeds too! Thought it was just HB's only trait
It's probably a required trait for show and breeding quality cats which is why it was said in the show. And most of them (even pet quality) likely have brown whiskers because it's the only color they try to get.

*eta* Now that I keep staring at that kitten pic, it really does look like she has white undercoat (roots of the hairs). Am I just imagining?
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post #25 of 45
5/25/11 at 5:21pm
I see that you are in Maryland--why don't you enter her in the HHP competition at a cat show? She would probably do very well, and she is young enough that you can train her to become a show superstar! My cat club has a show coming up the first weekend of June in the Baltimore area, and I know a number of judges would love to see such a rare beauty. At the very least, our color and breed experts can figure out just what she is!

http://www.catshows.us/colonialannapolis/

PM me for more information if you would like. It's a great show!
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post #26 of 45
5/25/11 at 5:42pm
She is sooooo beautiful !

Maybe the reason she's so brown is because someone - that wears brown lipstick - has been kissing her all over ?

I can't wait to see her in about a year - be sure and post her 1 year old pic so we can see her then.
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post #27 of 45
5/25/11 at 6:40pm
She looks very much like a little feral boy I rescued back in the early 80s.
He was from generation upon generation of feral moggies.

His adopters named him Hershey lol
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post #28 of 45
5/25/11 at 9:10pm
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Her whiskers are indeed brown. Her underbelly isn't white, really, but some of her brown hairs on her belly have lighter colored roots. I know absolutely nothing about cat shows, but I think it would be super fun to go to one with Kiwi (brown kiddin). She is the wildest, craziest kitten I've seen all year, and I have fostered a BUNCh of wild crazy kittens in the past few months. Literally climbs the curtains. I thought that was only in cartoons....
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post #29 of 45
5/26/11 at 12:00pm
OMG! That must the the cutest kitten EVER!!!!!
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post #30 of 45
5/26/11 at 3:17pm
Wow she is a truly gorgeous kitten! Sounds like she has a personality to match her uniqueness too
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