Dark Silver Tabby Cat

Dark grey spots and stripes prevail over a lighter gray or white coat.

Dark silver tabby cat.

The term calico much like tabby refers to a pattern of colors rather than a breed. Think of it as a diluted brown tabby. It s your typical tiger cat and the wild type coloration of the wildcat. All of the hairs that would be black will instead be blue.

Silver tabbies can be nearly white or very dark in color. The four basic tabby patterns are due to two distinct gene loci the agouti gene locus with two alleles and the tabby locus with three alleles and one modifier spotted with two alleles. The fifth pattern is an emergent one expressed by female cats with one black and one orange gene one on each of their two x chromosomes and is explained by barr bodies and the genetics of sex linked. The tabby cat is perhaps one of the most well known in the cat world.

Learn everything you need to know about this fun feline here. We raise the classic silver tabby which has black markings set on a silver background the typical bullseye pattern seen on the side of the cat. The ticked tabby gene restricts the pigment in the hair to the tips. A brown tabby has black stripes against a brown and gray background.

Interestingly all cats are tabby cats but some have a gene that masks the tabby appearance. If the cat has black stripes it s not a gray tabby it s a brown or silver tabby. Silver tabbies are generally a mix of shades of grey.