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amber-tortoiseshell · 6 months

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Do you have any tips on telling the difference between different varieties of tabby on long-coated cats? Like 95% of the examples on google are shorthair tabbies.

I can't say anything in good conscience, sorry. If it's a cat around you and not just a picture, try to get a look in the sun, that can help to see the patterns better.

Blotched is usually (but not always) recognisable of the bigger dark patches, but i have a very hard time differentiating between mackerel and spotted tabbies, the pattern too easily gets too blurred to say anything confidently. Best i think is, um, checking them when they're young, and the pattern is more visible. Not always possible, yeah.

This cat is spotted, by the way.

#and she had the most mackerely mackerel son with a blotched tom #so she's *heterozygous spotted carrying mackerel*#black spotted tabby bicolor #ask and answer #to be honest i often don't trust the breeders either completely #i've seen 100% not blotched kits born from blotchedxblotched pairing; this officially can't happen so one of the parents had to be miscoded #and that's just blotched!#cats #tabby patterns

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