#amber the cat

[planetbeanie]

Bring home 3 furrocious kitties today!

$16.14

[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?

[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.

[ainight-portfolio]

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

[his-dark-materials-trilogy]

[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

[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.

[amber-tortoiseshell]

I don't understand amber. How does it work? What does it do? How is it different from wide band/golden/ect.? Please explain

Ohoho, you invited me to talk about my favourite gene!

Amber is the mutation of the MC1R (melanocortin 1 receptor) gene. Recessive mutations here are associated with red and yellow color varieties in lots of species: rabbits, horses, mice and humans, to mention a few examples.

So what does this gene do? Replaces the black pigment with red. That's the gist of it.

The regular orange color of cats is a different gene, but they have similar molecular backgrounds: red and amber are both phaeomelanin-based colors. Phaeomelanin is one of the two most important pigment types in mammals, together with eumelanin. Eumelanin is responsible for black and brown colors, phaeomelanin is for reds and yellows. Black, chocolate and cinnamon are the traditional eumelanin-based cat colors.

Eumelanin-based tabbies have both eumelanin and phaeomelanin in their fur, the alternation of these two pigments make the agouti hairs banded: the lighter bands have only phaeomelanin. Phaeomelanin-based colors have only or overwhelmingly phaeomelanin in both the lighter and darker bands (the difference is probably the amount of pigments).

Now wide band does something different: it extends the lighter bands, so the coloration becomes less eumelanin-dominated (when there's eumelanin present). Thus, yellow cat.

The first figure shows basically the comparison of the hairs of a black and a red or amber tabby, the second is how golden hairs look like:

That's the difference between amber and golden. One of them changes the color of the agouti bands, the other changes their size.

Here's a red, an amber and a golden cat for comparison:

The amber tabby in the middle has darker orange tabby pattern, the black golden cat still has a black tailtip, black feet, sometimes even some black markings on the face.

The coolest thing about amber is that unlike red and golden, the kittens born with a lot of eumelanin, and they gradually lose it as they mature. Like this:

Nowaja (Galaxy vom Ritterclan), amber smoke with white

[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]

She's on the hunt

[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 :)

[juniper-clan]

Moon 22: Thoughts, Dreams, Plots, Schemes

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Featuring @stitchwraith-stingers character as the AsterClan messenger!

[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?

[felinefractious]

Aquarius av Barnedroem [Pedigree]

🐱 Norwegian Forest Cat

📸 av Barnedroem

🎨 Amber Classic Tabby [Extension Gene: Amber]