Hello,
I recently took in a female cat and soon after discovered that she was pregnant.
Last night she gave birth to 5 sweet, healthy kittens.
I am curious about the 3 grey ones and whether their markings are ghost tabby or actual tabby. If they are definitely tabby, what would you call them? Dilute tabby? Grey and white tabby? What colour are they? Will it change? I did a google search which turned up shaded silver tabby newborns that look very similar at birth but end up a silver grey with almost no hint of tabby at all. Is it possible that these kittens will lighten to a shaded silver? Or perhaps lose the tabby stripes and end up blue/grey like I suspect their father was? They do have mauve/lavender paw pads and nose leathers, like a blue cat would. Not sure if grey tabbies have that also though. Would love to hear your thoughts. Obviously it's not important, but I'm just so interested in these things and too impatient to wait to find out
I recently took in a female cat and soon after discovered that she was pregnant.
Last night she gave birth to 5 sweet, healthy kittens.
I am curious about the 3 grey ones and whether their markings are ghost tabby or actual tabby. If they are definitely tabby, what would you call them? Dilute tabby? Grey and white tabby? What colour are they? Will it change? I did a google search which turned up shaded silver tabby newborns that look very similar at birth but end up a silver grey with almost no hint of tabby at all. Is it possible that these kittens will lighten to a shaded silver? Or perhaps lose the tabby stripes and end up blue/grey like I suspect their father was? They do have mauve/lavender paw pads and nose leathers, like a blue cat would. Not sure if grey tabbies have that also though. Would love to hear your thoughts. Obviously it's not important, but I'm just so interested in these things and too impatient to wait to find out
