Last month I moved from Las Vegas to my father's house in New Jersey. Along
with me came my 1 year cat Baby (might have to change her name now....) At
my father's house they have 3 cats, Nai-Han (siamese), U2 (DSH), and
Sparticus (DSH). When I moved in I was under the impression that all three
had been neutered, all of them being male. Unfortunately, only U2 and Han
had been while Sparticus is scheduled to be on the 28th of this month I
later found out. At the same time, Baby has not yet been spayed. I realize
she should have been, but her story is a rather long one, basically I only
acquired her right before I left Vegas and she had been through 3 different
negligent owners before she ended up in my possesion. So as I released her
into the house, all is well. Until, I caught Sparticus and her being a
little too friendly. To the best of my knowledge they only mated once and as
I then read about the first mating only sending the female into heat I
thought she was in the clear. Low and behold she is not.

I realize that these things can be terminated, however I am rather opposed
to the idea of forcing an abortion onto her. I am prepared to keep the
remainder of the litter, as many kittens as that may be. I already have
commitments for two of them from people I know will be quite happy to take
them and will provide loving homes. I figure beyond that at most I can
expect to have four more kittens.

Anyway, now that I have provided a whole lot of useless info I really just
want to figure out the color possibilities for the kittens. It doesn't
really make a difference what they are, but genetics is something that
interested me in high school, but feline genetics seems to have a lot more
into it than the little Mendellian pea charts they have you do :)

On to the details:
Father: Sparticus
I believe the term is a "Van" colored cat?
He is white, except for just his tail and two small stripes on the top of
his head. Those are black and gray tabby colored.

Mother: Baby
She is black. I think she has a locket on her chest but I am not sure how
much hair there must be for it to be considered a spot? The amount of white
on her chest is extremely small. Like barely visible unless you roll her
over and look closely. She is not a solid black though. I would not go so
far as to say she is chocolate, but I would say she is the darkest possible
brown you can imagine, you can really only tell that she is not black when
she lays in the sun.

So, I know it is not possible to be definitive not knowing the recessive
genes, but I think possibly I could have blacks and tabbies with white? Or
does the fact that the father is almost all white will that mean some of the
kittens could be the same?

Thanks for the help. BTW, I have her certificate for her to be spayed as
soon as I can after her litter is born. The kittens will also be fixed
although I am not sure when as some people say 6 months and others say
sooner.