• Skua@kbin.earth
    48·
    12 days ago

    This cat would need absolutely no changes to show up in a movie as some kind of ancient fey trickster being

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
    35·
    12 days ago

    I wonder if they’re a chimera (i.e. started out as two embryos which fused, and has different genes depending on where you look).

    • QualifiedKitten@discuss.onlineEnglish
      8·
      12 days ago

      That, or a photoshop. Since the dilution gene hits both colors, a tortie/calico can either be grey and cream or black(brown) and orange.

      • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        11 days ago

        Yeah I was wondering if it was a photoshop, myself. So it’s really only possible for this pic to be a chimera or a photoshop, yeah? You’re saying this can’t be a tortie?

        • QualifiedKitten@discuss.onlineEnglish
          3·
          11 days ago

          Yeah, as far as I’m aware (and I spend way too much time reading about cat coat genetics), that combination of colors could only happen in a cat with 2 unique sets of DNA. I would still call that a tortie, though.

          That blue eye though, I don’t know enough about eye color genetics to confidently say, but the other features of the cat look like a Maine Coon, so it is possible that this cat came from a breder and there was intentional selection for eye color.

        • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
          3·
          11 days ago

          I have never seen a bright blue eye like that on an orange cat. I think Photoshop is definitely a possibility, but also, sometimes nature just does a wild artistic cat for all of us.

          • QualifiedKitten@discuss.onlineEnglish
            3·
            11 days ago

            Looks like a Maine Coon, so probably came from a breeder, and while it’s not an area I’ve really dug into, it looks like there are some Maine Coon breeders producing cats with blue eyes. Could naturally be blue, but the brightness definitely seems artificial.

      • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
        4·
        12 days ago

        Boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew.

  • downvote_hunter@midwest.socialEnglish
    17·
    12 days ago

    Looks like your printer ran out of ink there

    Edit: cool cat, 11/10, would definitely love one like it

  • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    12 days ago

    Jesus that’s a beautiful cat. And I didn’t even really like cats.

    • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      12 days ago

      Closer to Halloween, and this consummate planeswalker does so for an unliving Jessica, no doubt.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    11 days ago

    If that is a real image that damn well better be its name.

  • Okokimup@lemmy.world
    4·
    12 days ago

    You can tell this cat was in an accident and had to get the front hood replaced.

  • Angelusz@lemmy.world
    3·
    11 days ago

    Would have to meet the cat in person to truly judge its character. Interesting beastie if real though!