And yet people are still registering chocolates as brown and showing up at the show hall with them. That is what I am saying. TICA doesn't require photo proof of the color of your cat to register it. You could in theory register a seal lynx as a black silver and know one would be the wiser if that cat never left your home.Originally Posted by bengalbabe
Nial,
I understand what your saying about all of the brown colors being called different things for example charcoal brown is still registered as just brown and so is golden brown.
However, chocolate is NOT brown and is not an accepted color. It is a mutation of the brown/black gene. The tail tip on a chocolate is not black and neither is the pads and nose leather.
You are getting chocolate mixed up with brown/black. Brown (every color of brown from charcoal to sorral) is genetically a black cat but chocolate is not genetically a black cat.
Last show season I watched a brown spotted bengal go from no title to supreme and this cat has orange/pink paw pads!
I also saw a beautiful charcoal spotted bengal registered as a silver black spotted. He was clearly not silver, the hairs were charcoal down to the skin, and yet he won division several times and got at least 2 best of breed with finals.
Even the judges can't read the standard and stick to it.