Cats
The sunshine gene affects the agouti
(ticked) hairs only".
Sunshine silver looks very different from a silver with rufism; the nose leather is pinkish
unlike that of a tabby cat. The red colour of a sunshine red tabbies and sunshine torties is
brighter and the paws are lighter. The absence of pigment in the sunshine tabbies extends
beyond the edges of the nose leather so they have no nose-liner and have whitish fur at the
bottom of the nose.
There is a link to one of the Snowknight cats, Joschka, around 7 generations back, so his
torbie dynasty continues. The common ancestor from Poland is Snowknight Destiny. Either
Destiny or her brother Snowknight Derringer had a very colourful torbie male offspring, but
the breeder had him neutered rather than test-mating him. This was carried over from
Joschka, who had an extra Chromosome. Caroline Sharp’s torbie male Bogomir Tschudovich
of Misinza aka Meli is black-and-white, with a big flame of red over and around his ears and
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