Cats
Imagine a
brindled tortoiseshell in which all the black areas have been converted to white. The result
was a cat with intermixed fur of white, cream and ginger; the fur being brindled like a tortie
rather than being patched like a red-and-white bicolour. This was seen while on holiday
(either Turkey or Tunisia) and unfortunately I didn't have a camera with me. I have never
seen anything like it since. A likely explanation is a genetic mutation in the fertilised egg had
caused a pigment production fault in the areas which should have been black. It would have
been interesting to see if the trait could have been perpetuated.
One reader suggestion for the "white brindle is a red-tabby-and-white smoke shorthair. This
would give a similar effect, but the colour in a smoke cat does not go down to the roots and
the brindled effect would not be so thorough. I am currently inclined to think that the cat was
annaabi.ee 
