Excuse all the lint on my shirt. I’ve been doing laundry all day.
My baby, Sashimi, is all black with two white stripes that go down most of his back and a few stripes on his legs. I’ve never seen markings like this on a cat. Just curious if there’s a name for it.
First photo is his skunk stripes. Second photo is from a few weeks ago, when I first found him/brought him home.
Yes I love the ghost stripes! the 3 month old girl I am looking after ( & will adopt if an owner doesn’t come forward ) looks black until I use a flash & then you can see the faint brown tabby markings.
I’m curious to see if they fade or become more visible when she is older.
Occasionally you can see a faint shadow of them in bright sunlight.... I love when you can see a few tabby markings on what we perceive as a completely black cat. It makes me wonder if, with their better vision, they can always see those markings.... And why.... I know the tabby markings provide camo in the woods but do they say anything else to other cats?
I’d never heard of that until now. I just looked it up and it sounds like they would’ve been noticeable the whole time? He looked completely black when I first found him. The stripes seem to be developing as he grows.
Reminds me of the kitty I adopted this June 28th. Named him Reverb. This is a pic of my cat Puddys 16th birthday yesterday my skunk cat is to the far right.
He may grow out of them, but this is genuinely so cute. Black kittens, in my experience, are the wildest lil things to watch as their coats develop. There is a lot more change and variation over the course of weeks for reasons I dont know, but have only witnessed lol.
Yeah! I had kittens that looked smokey (grayish root with black tips) become darker, but you could still see tabby stripes. Kittens that looked dark chocolatey brown and then turn black. More stuff like that too.
I think "true black" pigment is pretty rare, so you have a loooooot of variations of how it presents itself.
Hello to another Sashimi!! This is one of my foster kittens. She looks mad because she just got gabapentin and her suit is because she just got spayed 😻
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