Dark Silver Tabby Cat

We raise the classic silver tabby which has black markings set on a silver background the typical bullseye pattern seen on the side of the cat.

Dark silver tabby cat.

A brown tabby has black stripes against a brown and gray background. Learn everything you need to know about this fun feline here. If the cat has black stripes it s not a gray tabby it s a brown or silver tabby. If a cat has three colors and the distinctive tabby forehead.

Think of it as a diluted brown tabby. The american shorthair comes in more than 80 different colors patterns ranging from black to white and a variety of colors between. The term calico much like tabby refers to a pattern of colors rather than a breed. Silver tabbies can be nearly white or very dark in color.

It s your typical tiger cat and the wild type coloration of the wildcat. Interestingly all cats are tabby cats but some have a gene that masks the tabby appearance. The four basic tabby patterns are due to two distinct gene loci the agouti gene locus with two alleles and the tabby locus with three alleles and one modifier spotted with two alleles. The ticked tabby gene restricts the pigment in the hair to the tips.

The fifth pattern is an emergent one expressed by female cats with one black and one orange gene one on each of their two x chromosomes and is explained by barr bodies and the genetics of sex linked. A silver ticked tabby british shorthair cat has a silver undercoat with black tips or blue chocolate etc depending on what colour the cat is. All of the hairs that would be black will instead be blue.