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Silver blue hair tumblr1/2/2024 ![]() People have started to ask cat associations to include and recognize roan as a new type of colour, so in the future we might see new colours like “black roan, “blue roan” or “red roan” pop up. This is different from all the other known cat colours, since either you have only fully pigmented hairs in one colour or in patches (bi- and tricolour cats), OR you have partially pigmented hairs like for example the smokes (bottom is white, tip is coloured), OR banded hairs for tabbies (imagine a hair with multiple light and dark stripes on it). Roan in cats exists as well, but only very recently have cat associations like the TICA taken notice of it, so for the moment it is NOT an officially recognized colour! It seems the colouration seems to have been around for a while though, appearing here and there in wild stray populations or the random house cat.Īs stated at the beginning, roan means there is an even distribution of fully white and fully coloured hairs next to each other. I’ll be sticking to cats moving forward, because my knowledge about roan in other species is a lot more superficial. In fact it seems that a good deal of the how and why roan exists, is still a mystery. How the roan colour looks, its distribution and genetic inheritance differs from species to species (roan in a horse for example would not be the same in a dog). It is primarily known in horses, but also cattle and to a somewhat lesser extent in dogs. Roan is a legitimate colour! It describes an even mixture of white and fully pigmented hair next to each other. Black is the most common base colour in combination with silver, so sometimes people don’t bother explicitly mentioning it. You might run into captions that just say “silver tabby” not specifying the base colour. International Champion Noxx Zlatan Ibrahimovic The tabby markings will remain the same base colour with or without silver, but the “background” colour (you might know this as agouti) will change to a silvery tone. The term silver is only being used for tabbies + silver (so a lilac tabby with silver is called a lilac silver tabby, a cinnamon tabby cat with silver is a cinnamon silver tabby, etc). This gives the coat a “smoky” look, because you can see the lighter base shine through.Īlright, so smoke only applies to solid colours. With smokes the lower portion of the hair would be white and only the upper part would be coloured. If you would look at a single hair a regular solid colour would be the same colour from root to tip (maybe slightly lighter at the base). The term smoke is being used when the coat is a solid colour + silver (so for example a solid black cat with silver is called a black smoke, a solid blue cat with silver is a blue smoke and so on). Any colour or pattern can have silver added to it, but there is no cat that is just silver on its own. Good question! You can think of silver as an additional colour, rather than a colour by itself. ![]()
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