#amber the cat

[planetbeanie]

Bring home 3 furrocious kitties today!

$16.14

[desidesidesi]

She's on the hunt

[floralete]

beach episode

[violetnshenanigans]

Today is my cat's birthday! Amber is turning 6 today.

This is the birthday girl. Feel free to celebrate her birthday with us <3

[desidesidesi]

Reminds me of the time my cat fell in love with a Extra Firm Tofu box we got with our Chinese Takeout once.

[ivomagus]

Unexpected friend. September 2024.

[ainight-portfolio]

Amber has another chance encounter, this time in the Twilight Forest. Read more...

[amber-tortoiseshell]

I'm really confused about the solid amber cats- are they really not considered to be tabbies despite having tabby markings? I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around that. Would you mind expanding upon that topic?

There are two possible uses of the word "tabby" (and I think both are equally valid and useful and have their places).

One is what you use: when a cat is striped. That's it. In this meaning "solid" ambers are tabbies, yes. This is what people mean when they say "all orange cats are tabbies". This is useful in everyday talk, but can get messy, think of smoke ghost tabbies or ticked tabbies.

The other is what i use on this blog: tabby is when a cat's agouti genotype is 'A_', solid is when it's 'aa'. Unfortunately this means both (genetically!) tabby and solid cats can have bafflingly not tabby- or solid-looking phenotypes and that can lead to confusion.

It's intuitive for black: a black tabby is striped, a solid black is solid. This is why the a allele is called "solid" - in reality it doesn't make the cat patternless per se, it increases the production of the black pigment in the "background" of the tabby pattern.

The only difference between the genetics of these colors is the agouti gene.

For red, genetically solid cats often look identical to genetically tabbies.

Kitten and adult photo of a cat born to a solid black and a solid tortie. He's 100% genetically solid red.

Solid tortoiseshells can show this difference very well:

The black parts of this cat reveal that it's genetically solid - but still have stripes on the red patches.

Amber is somewhere in the middle between red and black: solid cats aren't completely black, but still blacker than tabbies.

This is probably a direct consequence of how orange cats doesn't produce any black pigments whatsoever, while ambers do have some, just less than blacks, so being genetically solid has less effect on them.

Another photo of the tabby and solid amber cats from my previous post

In summary:

[desidesidesi]

Amber the Cat doesn't look so bad in this pic, but Professor Juniper was a WRECK at the vet's office 😅

Reblog with a picture of your dog or cat looking extremely non-photogenic; I just think it’d be funny to see.

[his-dark-materials-trilogy]

[planetbeanie]

since everybody else is showing off their old beanies i would like to present to you:

this is butterscotch (actually named amber, her tag was so faded that i named her that when i was little) i've had her since i was a baby and she has survived about 4 moves, a dog chewing her nose off (and more) i've had her for 16 years now and she is still my prized possession

She’s a beautiful little lady! What a warrior fighting off scary dogs and surviving limb loss, Xenia warrior princess eat your heart out!

Hope you and Butterscotch have many more wonderful and adventure filled years ☺️

[desidesidesi]

Professor! I cleared away that cart to put art supplies on, not cats!!! I know you've wanted to sit there forever, but I'm gonna ask you to move.

Why can't you be like your big sis, Amber and play with dis box?

[desidesidesi]

More cats y'say?

Here's Amber the Cat just looking like the most proper lady.

And here's Professor Juniper sitting in a box of wet wipes in my junk drawer of a studio closet, looking contemplative. She's probably wondering why she tried so hard to get into that box!

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?

now you have :)

[whatcoloristhatcat]

Hey, what is the most common cat color? Is there a particularly rare color? What are some cool statistics/facts about cat colors?

the most common cat color would be black, including black solids and black tabbies! there's a good amount of rare colors and i imagine some people would disagree with me about what is rare, but here's a few:

chocolate and cinnamon (solids)

lilac and fawn (dilute chocolate and cinnamon, solids)

silver smoke, shaded and tipped (different presentations of the inhibitor/silver restriction gene)

golden (another variation on the inhibitor gene)

amber (found in norwegian forest cats)

phoenix mutation

"red on blue" tabby and "pseudo-cinnamon" (i've actually seen some misinformation popping up about these guys recently >_>. a cool-tinted red cat is not necessarily one of these guys!!)

karpati mutation

finnish/salmiak/salt licorice mutation

there's definitely more but i'm tired bye

[violetnshenanigans]

I booped my cat on the nose and she started purring. I realized that this is a pattern. Do you think it's a purr button?

[harriertail]

warrior cats conspiracy is that the cat on the cover of The Forgotten Warrior is actually Lionblaze, not Leafpool, and the art was just re-used for Leafpool's Wish like how stormfur is used for mistystar's omen