Rare Tabby Cat Colors

The chinchilla coloration is most often found in persian cats and can actually present in silver or gold.

Rare tabby cat colors. Within their calico spots they may have tabby stripes. It s recessive meaning even in pedigree cats it is a rarity making it pretty special. White orange and black. It is considered a dilution of an already diluted color and is therefore not as commonly seen in even pedigreed cats.

Lilac also known as lavender is an almost purple color and is one of the lightest kinds of dilution in the chocolate color. Cats are the undisputed kings of the internet. Brown mackeral tabbies are the most common. Unlike dogs which vary drastically in shapes in sizes between breeds cats are pretty much well cats.

Black stripes ranging from coal black to brownish on a background of brown to gray. Distinct color patterns with one color predominating. Like the smoke coat in chinchilla coats to the cat s undercoat is pure white while the tip of the hair is black giving the cat a shimmery silver appearance. Lavender is considered the rarest of all the cat color patterns and therefore lavender colored tabby cats are really hard to come by.

Lilac or lavender is a much rarer coat color found in cats and isn t purple at all but is the result of a diluted chocolate color. They are everywhere online probably because they make everything cuter and funnier. The tabby pattern occurs in twelve colours which are black based or red based and their dilutes and dilute modifiers which change the shape of the melanin granules or make them clump together. Calico cats have three colors.

Of all the cat breeds you will mostly find the lavender color in siamese and colorpoint shorthair cats. Darker spots stripes or whorls on a lighter brown background. Below is a photo of a calico cat you can clearly see the brown and red tabby colours as well as the effects of the white spotting gene. There is no question about it.

If a cat has three colors and the distinctive tabby forehead marking they re a calico tabby.