Shiloh is adorable!Wow, they are just gorgeous! I really love the sleek thoroughbred build. Most here are just black or bay, kinda boring after a while.
Shiloh (the cat in my profile) is the son of a white cat, but I don’t know if she is dominant white or is homozygous and highly expressive of the spotting gene. She had a black spot on her head. I think she’s dominant white since most of her relatives are white, but her father and some relatives are solid black.
Her mate was an unrelated black and white cat and she produced two litters with four kittens each, three being solid white and one being seal point and white in each litter. It’s some kind of luck that that happened twice, considering that neither Snowbelle nor her mate are pointed, yet carried the gene and the only kittens born not solid white (with spots on their heads) happened to be pointed. Most had black spots on their heads but I think there was one with a brownish spot.
So Shiloh is a very special gift from God, and so is his little sister Mia.
Color genetics in cats is something totally different again. I honestly haven't studied it much, except in that I have chocolate colored cats, descended from a lovely lilac tabby kitty I adopted out of a box at a street fair. They'll throw a pointed kitty sometimes too. My current imitation Siamese is named Climber, Destroyer of Houseplants.
