#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!

[donnisbutterfly]

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[edubblove]

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[wallywonder]

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[biracialquirkiness]

I am learning self love. And I already love my wild mane lol

[mixdgrlproblems]

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[catcolors]

seal tortie point bicolour

© Dr. Mirjam Kessler

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

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[kendallkeith]

Hello #mixedmonday! Shot by @talktonatasha

[deathbladejade]

#democracy #dictator #government #plenarypower #mixedmonday

[mixdgrlproblems]

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

[kendallkeith]

Hello #mixedmonday ! #model #capetown