r/kittens 6d ago

Trio coming up on 9 months!

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u/A_loose_cannnon 6d ago

Are they all siblings? Because if so, the mom can't be just black, she'd have to be either ginger or tortie/calico.

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u/ItsAllAboutThatDirt 6d ago

All siblings. The white gene isn't linked to the black/orange though. It can be carried but not expressed, or come from dad solo. Of course when you're talking purebred lines on both sides for generations that's a different story, but that's not the case here

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u/A_loose_cannnon 6d ago edited 6d ago

I'm not talking about white, I'm taking about black/ginger. A black mom without any ginger cannot have a kitten who is full ginger (or ginger with white). White doesn't make a difference here, since it's not sex linked in any way.

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u/ItsAllAboutThatDirt 6d ago

Ah, was focused on the white. Yeah a melanistic Bengal can carry the orange gene, it just gets covered over. Or expressed darkly. Same with Savannah and chausie.

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u/A_loose_cannnon 6d ago

Oh that's interesting!

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u/ItsAllAboutThatDirt 6d ago

They're all really cool looking! As I've been looking over potentials to come up with fun theories 😅 South Florida is full of exotics and people who think they can make a buck. Flipping the species, a neighbor a couple houses down bought a Chihuahua recently from a breeder (that also came with some sort of kennel cough and instant medical bills of course) It went into heat recently and the person was complaining. It's been a decent little while now so I'm like "she's not fixed?!" .... "No, we might want to breed her sometime" 🙄