#mixedmonday

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Mixed Monday Special: Chimera

I have a rare treat for you guys today! One of my followers was so kind to anonymously share these photos of a very special cat with me.

This stunning boy is called Zuko. As you can perhaps see from the pictures and his split coloured face he is not only a male tortie (with white) but also blue and black at once!!

Blue is a dilution of black and usually a cat can visually only be one or the other (blue or black), but not both! 

Most likely Zuko is a chimera, meaning two (or more) separate embryos fused during pregnancy which resulted in a single cat with different sets of colour traits.

People often like to throw the word chimera around when it comes to split face torties, but in most of those cases it is being misused and simply a striking looking but otherwise normal expression of the tortie colouration. 

True natural occurring chimeras are quite rare and can only be confirmed with DNA testing. 

I am not aware that Zuko has been officially tested for chimerism so we can’t be 100% sure, but the combination of showing two otherwise non co-existing colours and being a male tortie makes him a much more likely candidate.

You might have seen my post about Narnia not too long ago, which has similar features. Narnia’s DNA tests are still ongoing for the moment, but he too might be a chimera cat.

Thank you very much again to my follower for sharing this very interesting cat with us!

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[mixdgrlproblems]

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seal tortie point bicolour

© Dr. Mirjam Kessler

© gladkova.ru

Dizigner Limp Bizkit breed: Balinese breeder: Elena Gerasimova dizigner.ru

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congratulations to our #mcm @therock!!!! thanks for repping the #Black #Samoan & #Mixed communities!!! 🏴🇼🇸 #repost • @nickbarose Didn’t get around to post this on #aapiheritagemonth cus one month really isn’t enough for all the contents about our accomplishments, but every month is #AAPI Heritage month. 🎬 🙌🙌🏽🙌🏾🙌🏿🙌🏼🙌🏻 Two years in a row and continues, King of the entertainment industry. 👑 💰 💰 💰 💰 💰 💰💰 💰 💰 💰 💰 💰 I feel like, when people think of ✌🏻Hollywood✌🏻 Top #leadingman ✌🏻Movie Star✌🏻in the classic sense that’s been presented to us with what ✌🏻sells✌🏻 and what ✌🏽Doesn’t Sell✌🏽, they always still think of someone like Tom Cruise for a long time but currently, the most bankable and beloved world wide ( and w the receipts to prove it from here to other big market like, China, and not just highest paid, a lot of celebrities can get high followings to get high salary but their “ followers” don’t love them enough to come out to support them 💴💴💴 for every dollar they paid this guy, the studios got a lot of returns for their investments. 🌎🌏🌍 ✈️ it really doesn’t count if you’re a #celebrity and you and your team think you’re ✌🏻famous✌🏻 ...but only in LA where a lot of celebrities are famous but broke/poor by #Hollywood standard... and No one care about ‘em outside of LA .) Its this brown guy w the #Polynesian island of #Samoa heritage. 🌴🌴🌴🌞🌺💪��� #TheRock 👑 #mixedboymonday #mixedmonday https://www.instagram.com/p/CRPRDtoF6LJ/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Mixed Monday Special: Topaz Breed

The Topaz is a very new blue eyed cat breed which is in development by Iryna Merzlenko in Ukraine. It currently has experimental status with the WCF.

Blue eyed cats with very little or no white fur at all are usually very rare, but that’s exactly the goal of this breed. Thanks to a dominant blue eyed gene these cats can have any coat colour and still have striking blue eyes. Odd eyes with at least one blue eye are acceptable according to the breed standard as well.

As the breed is still so young the genetics behind the blue eyes have not yet been fully uncovered. It seems that homozygous cats whith large amounts of white increases the possibility of deafness. It also seems to produce extremely unusual markings and white distributions (see examples below).

Kaonasi (black smoke with white)

Panda (black roan bicolour)

Dakota (black spotted tabby)

Cyntiya (black silver spotted tabby)

Blot (black with white)

Maryska (black with white)

Lourdes (black)

all photos © Iryna Merzlenko breed: Topaz breeder and owner:  Iryna Merzlenko en.nikital.com

[mixdgrlproblems]

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[mixdgrlproblems]

if you do hey there! i've been shadow banned multiple times, have had posts get deleted and been fact checked on the multiracial experience smh due to instagrams shenanigans and algorithms. engagement is up and down and i wanna make sure all of you are seeing this shit lol usually i ask you to just say yes but can we take it a few steps further? 1. Save 2. Share Anywhere 3. Comment what you're mixed with & maybe find your twin! 4. And press that Love button! 🖤 I appreciate it! Happy #MixedMonday! 🖤🖤🖤 https://www.instagram.com/p/COs9SGTFtF0/?igshid=12r6wi6b3r6p7

[mixdgrlproblems]

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I'm curious: have you ever seen a classic tabby smoke? I would imagine they're quite dramatic...

Yes, I have because one of my own cats (Faolan, see below) is a black smoke with an underlying classic tabby pattern. ;) However let’s just talk real quick about the proper terminology, because a “tabby smoke” is by definition not possible. “Smoke” means the cat is a solid colour + silver. If the cat is a tabby + silver it will be called “silver tabby”. 

BUT sometimes we can see a smoke cat (solid) clearly showing tabby markings! So what’s going on here? All cats are in truth tabbies. There are other colours   though— like solids — which will hide that tabby pattern from being visible. Sometimes the tabby pattern is not fully surpressed and it shines through. This is called “ghost marks”. They are especially common in smokes and usually better visible when the cats are kittens or still young. Ghost markings tend to fade if not completely disappear with age. 

Personally I think all smokes look fantastic be it with or without ghost markings, but at least for show cats ghost markings are a big “no-no”, because they are supposed to look solid and not like a tabby, which makes sense.

Here are a few examples of quite extreme black smoke with classic tabby ghost markings (+ scroll to the end for my boy Faolan

Mixed Monday Special:black smoke with ghost markings (classic tabby)

© Nathalie Boogemans

Boulette (JUNA “du Double Zéro Cat”)breed: British Shorthairbreeder: Mme Sefiani

© Cattery Cheshire Rose

breed: British Shorthair

© thesilverpaws

Faolan (Maximus von Saquarema)breed: Oriental Shorthairbreeder: Annette Larch-Ettinger owner: thesilverpaws.tumblr.com

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red point

© Tetyana Dovgalyova

Butterflies Ural breed: Sphynx breeder: Tetyana Dovgalyova sphynx.tv 

© Tetyana Dovgalyova

Butterflies Helicopter breed: Sphynx breeder: Tetyana Dovgalyova sphynx.tv

[mixdgrlproblems]

It's #MixedMonday and here's @hauidavis of @mixed_upfilm: "Yes I'm a guy but I have a lot of intersections being #queer #mixed and #fluid. I'm #Jamaican #Cuban #British, & #Welsh (of what we know.) I want to help elevate my beautiful #mixedsisters!" 🇯🇲🇨🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 Make sure to check out their award winning film on being mixed race! @mixed_upfilm 🎥 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Check out my How To: Be Featured Story for a Shoutout! ☝️ Following me is required! Want to be featured faster?? Follow and dm my personal page @donnisbutterfly and LET ME KNOW THERE YOU SUBMITTED HERE AS WELL! 💋 #mixedboymonday #mixedguys #mixedlgbtq https://www.instagram.com/p/CTfqXcvFM86/?utm_medium=tumblr

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black classic torbie

© Eva Køhler

CH Trille breed: European Shorthair breeder and owner: Eva Køhler eife.dk