Cats
dilute colour.
ORIGINAL COLOUR DILUTE VERSION CARAMEL VERSION OF THE
DILUTE VERSION (DILUTE
MODIFIER, DOUBLE DILUTION)
Black Blue Caramel (UK: Blue-based caramel)
Chocolate Lavender (Lilac) Taupe (UK: Lilac-based caramel)
Cinnamon Fawn UK: Fawn-based Caramel
These colours will naturally look a little different on Burmese (due to the sepia gene),
Tonkinese (mink gene) and cats with the silver Inhibitor gene. For clarity, this article will
ignore those additional genes and just look at the eumelanin (black) series of colours.
An additional type of recessively carried brown colour has been reported in laboratory cats,