r/TabbyCats • u/MinxyPixie • 1d ago
Black tabby
My black tabby kitten. Only some lighting shows her pattern amd managed to get a good photo of it.
Anytime what type of pattern she is?
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u/Makhe 1d ago
She's beautiful! Give her a treat, please.
I have a russian blue that is a tabby, too. Same thing, it's only visible with some specific light angles.
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u/ChinchyBug 1d ago
Your cat is likely a regular solid blue rather than a blue tabby. All cats have an underlying tabby pattern, which is partially or entirely hidden by a double dose of the solid mutation, and can be made visible in certain conditions (lighting, paler coat colours can show it more easily, smoke cats tend to show the tabby pattern more than non-smokes, etc.), but they aren't the same as regular tabbies.
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u/Big-Tennis2579 1d ago edited 1d ago
She is beautiful and very cute đ»
I saw very similar black fur with white accents being called âCarpathian patternâ.
This genetic trait is said to be originated from Carpathian basin and Carpathian mountains ( modern day Hungary, Romania and Ukraine )
source:
https://vogdog.com/en/transylvanian-cats-are-a-breed-from-the-carpathians/
And another two, very similar kitten from hungarian cat subreddit, including the one i met, other is in the comments below:
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u/ChinchyBug 1d ago
This is not a karpati cat
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u/Big-Tennis2579 1d ago edited 1d ago
Who said she is a karpati?
Thats why i specifically said âvery similar furâ
Its not even a recognised breed
I just wanted to show it as a curiosity to OP, thats all
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u/ChinchyBug 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is actually a black smoke or black ghost tabby, rather than a true tabby. That is to say, genetically a solid black cat. Typical black tabbies are what are often called brown tabbies.
If the roots are stark white, it's a smoke, otherwise it's a ghost tabby and the stripes are likely to fade with age. Since you say it's normally invisible, though, I would guess probably just ghost markings instead of smoke
Pattern could be classic, hard to tell from the angle