Black
Chausie Cat - Here
are a series of photographs of a Chausie cat called "Shekinah"
from the Tammy Isaac's Willowind Cattery in South Texas. The
photographs are ©copyright
Helmi Flick. Please respect copyright.
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All three photographs of the black Chausie are ©copyright
Helmi
Flick - please respect it.
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Melanistic Jungle
Cat - Photo by Joachim
S. Müller
published under a
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The gene (grizzle gene) that creates the silver tipped black melanistic
Chausie cat is yet to be indentified, as far as I am aware. I cannot
find reference to it in Robinson's Genetics for Cat Breeders and
Veterinarians. The Chausie
is a wildcat hybrid. The silver tipped coat is therefore, quite
possibly, a combination of the ticked coat inherited from the
Abyssinian (the domestic cat half of this wildcat hybrid) and the
Melanistic Jungle
Cat (see above), the wildcat
half.
The Abyssinian
cat has a ticked tabby pattern,
a restricted form of the classic tabby coat. Black
is a solid color caused by the non-agouti gene. Tammy
Issac
talks about this very interesting coat.
From
Black Chausie Cat to Chausie Cat Breeders
(Ken and Helmi Flick's experiences on living with an F1 Chausie).
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