Siamese kitten from a gray striped tabby?

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TheBicyclingGuitarist - 23 Dec 2007 02:05 GMT

How can this be?
The mother is a gray striped tabby. The kitten looks like a seal point
siamese, except he has irregular black and white hair color patterns
on his paws (very striking and quite cute). He has blue eyes and
classic seal point markings (except for the paws).

I *thought* the father was an orange striped tabby, but maybe not huh?

I found an internet article about seal point Ragdoll cats, whatever a
ragdoll cat is. Is Seal point like calico, that is, a color pattern
but not specific to any particular breed?

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Matthew - 23 Dec 2007 02:16 GMT

litters can have multiple fathers

> How can this be?
> The mother is a gray striped tabby. The kitten looks like a seal point
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> ragdoll cat is. Is Seal point like calico, that is, a color pattern
> but not specific to any particular breed?

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Barb - 23 Dec 2007 14:52 GMT

Thats what I always wondered Matthew. My MIL says they cant...but I tend to
wonder. Our neighbor's cat was part Siamese/Burmese look, the daddy of her
kittens or at least 3 of the times they copulated (I happen to witness the
event :( ) was a orange tabby. Her kittens were a tortie color, 2 orange
tabbies and a grey with light tabby markings in him.

> litters can have multiple fathers
>
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>> ragdoll cat is. Is Seal point like calico, that is, a color pattern
>> but not specific to any particular breed?

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Matthew - 23 Dec 2007 17:40 GMT

According to the scientist they can I would tend to believe the ones with
several degrees under their belts ;-)

> Thats what I always wondered Matthew. My MIL says they cant...but I tend
> to wonder. Our neighbor's cat was part Siamese/Burmese look, the daddy of
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>>> ragdoll cat is. Is Seal point like calico, that is, a color pattern
>>> but not specific to any particular breed?

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Ted Davis - 23 Dec 2007 16:34 GMT

Something like Ozy
(<http://67.54.246.139:9000/tdavis/cats/03.jan/ozy.267x400.1.jpg>)?

Except that Ozy is a red tabby color point. He's from a barn cat clowder
consisting mostly of red tabbies, calicos, and black and white shorthairs
- I saw no Siamese types in the clowder, but there he is: white body, red
tabby points, blue eyes, and the typical color point seasonal color
intensity variation (weaker color in the summer coat than in the winter
coat). His sister/other-close-relative, Millie, is an apricot long hair
(<http://67.54.246.139:9000/tdavis/cats/03.jan/millie.267x400.2.jpg>),
both the color and hair length were not seen in the clowder.

(It's hard to believe that the pictures are almost five years old and the
cats are going on seven.)

BTW, Ozy has the softest and thickest coat in my fifteen cat clowder.

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The Bicycling Guitarist - 23 Dec 2007 20:14 GMT

>> How can this be?
>> The mother is a gray striped tabby. The kitten looks like a seal point
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>
> Except that Ozy is a red tabby color point. He's from a barn cat clowder

Seer looks much more Siamese than Ozy does. Ozy is a beautiful cat, but with
the stripes on his tail and so on he definitely shows his tabby heritage.
The only thing not very Siamese looking about Seer is the shape of his head
and the markings of his paws. Somebody who saw him thought he was purebred
Seal Point Siamese, that's how close Seer is, and I thought both his parents
were striped tabby cats (mama gray, papa orange). Maybe not though, lol.

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