The Spotted silver tabby British Shorthair Black silver mackerel tabbies are a real favourite of ours.Īs with all tabby patterns, they can come in any colour and any pattern combination. The original Whiskas cat is a black silver mackerel tabby, although they have now also used a Classic Silver tabby, and even a spotty one too. Think of Tigger! Mackerel tabbies are beautiful, stripey cats a little like zebras. The Mackerel silver tabby British Shorthair This is being done particularly in red and cream British Shorthair cats, because their tabby patterns are for more visible than they are in other colours. So by using ticked tabbies, we can ensure that our kittens' tabby patterns have minimal effect and are therefore much less likely to show through. The breed standard for a non-tabby cat requires that a ‘self’, or non tabby cat, does not have a tabby pattern showing through on their fur. Some people are working with ticked tabbies to introduce the ticked tabby gene to their non-tabby cats. Interestingly, all cats are tabby cats, but some have a gene that masks the tabby appearance. 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). The ticked tabby gene restricts the pigment in the hair to the tips. The ticked gene is an additional gene that works on top of the underlying tabby pattern. The ticked silver tabby has a very interesting appearance. There are 4 variations on the tabby gene, and each results in a different appearance in the tabby pattern: The ticked silver tabby British Shorthair This removes the pigment from the hairs, giving the silver effect rather than a more cream-yellow effect of a non-silver tabby.Īll silver tabby cats also carry one or two copies of the Agouti gene, which is the gene that is responsible for the tabby pattern. The most common silver tabby, and the one that people think of, is the black silver tabby.Īll silver tabby cats carry either one or two copies of the silver gene. If you are looking for something different this page is well worth a visit - British Shorthairs come in a vast array of colours and patterns.All silver tabby cats can come in all of the basic colours of British Shorthair cats: black, blue, chocolate, lilac, red, cream and tortie. Look at our kitten page to see if we have of these beautiful blue tabbies available.ĭiscover more British Shorthair colours. Of course, there is always the exception to the rule! But it does tend to be true that tabbies are a bit more hyper. In our experience, tabby British Shorthair cats are more athletic and energetic than their non-tabby counterparts. TemperamentĪ blue tabby will likely have a very similar temperament to your average tabby British Shorthair cat. These are especially unusual! For more information see our page on bicolour cats. BicoloursĪll blue tabbies can also come in the various bicolour patterns: bicolour, harlequin and van patterns. Read more about the silver tabby British Shorthair. Both blue-golden and blue-silver tabbies are incredibly beautiful. The blue silver is a higher contrast, with the background being almost white. Blue golden tabbies look as though they have been painted. They are very similar in appearance, but the blue-golden tabby is warmer and the combination of the blue on the golden background is very subtle and strikingly unusual - it is incredibly beautiful actually. The blue tabby also comes in ticked, shaded and smoke.īlue tabbies come in either blue-golden or blue-silver. The blue classic tabby is marbled, or rosetted The blue mackerel tabby is stripey, like a tiger Blue tabby patternsīlue British Shorthair tabbies come in all of the many varieties of tabby you can get: The dilution gene reduces the amount of pigment in the hair, so that black becomes blue. This means that a blue tabby has two copies of the dilution gene. If you would like one please contact us as they don't come along very often! The genetics of the blue tabbyīlue tabbies are genetically identical to black tabbies in all but one way: the blue tabby is homozygous for the dilution gene. V ery occasionally we have blue tabby kittens available in self and bicolour.
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