Cats
In addition, the male had white ticking at the tips of his hair. As
the male grew, his stripes faded out and became spots while the black markings also changed
from black to a burnt red-brown colour and his white ticking became smaller. The change
from stripe to spots was probably an optical effect caused by the change from black to red-
brown. His dorsal line became a burnt golden brown, and the background colour was similar
to a washed out sorrel colour (sorrel is a colour found in Abyssinians).
There are a few oddities in his ancestry. His mother, Pearl, was a black Manx and his sire was
a normal black/brown tabby from the same black Manx mother. The inbreeding was
accidental, and may have brought out a recessive gene. Pearl was born to a black/red tortie
(carrying dilute and colourpoint) and a red van-pattern sire; this pairing should not produce
solid black females so, barring an anomaly in her sire's germ line, Pearl may be a tortie where
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