Thread: MC colour?

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Now this is going to be very interesting hope some experts come on with a good answer,know it sounds daft but to me he looks as if he should be a silver tabby not a brown,he is showing all the leg markings of a tabby,just going back for another look....
Yep same with his face got the tabby markings,normally smokes have a plain darker face.
At the moment I would stick my neck out & say a black silver tabby that has got quite a bit of tarnishing in the coat,but....!
As a matter of interest what does his pedigree say.
Super pictures also....x

His dad is a silver tabby and mum is a brown tabby....dont know if that helps?

Unfortunatley he's not a pedigree, although i'm 99% sure he's a full maine coon as I met his mum, dad, aunt and siblings.
But I guess that means without papers I cant be a 100%. There is a piccy of his dad in my gallery and I know that there was a
little blue tabby with white but the other 5 were brown tabbies in his litter.

Hope we get some more replies on this one...
Whatever his colour may or may not be he looks an adorable cuddly boy....x

Originally Posted by jckkerrison

Hope we get some more replies on this one...
Whatever his colour may or may not be he looks an adorable cuddly boy....x

He is! we love him to bits! I was a little niave about breeders when I got him and
realise it was a risk to not get any papers. However my next one ( which I hope to be in the next couple of years)
will definatley be from a reputable breeder and I will definatley be quizing you guys on
here about what to look for

but back to the original question....

Does anyone have any ideas on what colour Dexter might be?

Hi there, looked at his pics, in coonies you only get smokes on the solids (red is an exception) but you can get shaded on the silvers but not the browns and this 'usually' carries from the parents. If parents are a silver and a brown, what you will get is a tarnished (sometimes heavily) silver which quite often will end up as a 'black silver' due to black being in both brown and silver tabbies. He doesn't appear to have any red in his coat so that rules out a Mosaic and his mum would need to be a tortie. His photo's suggest he is a black silver which also reduces the clarity of his coat pattern. Hope this helps. Myke

I'm not an expert but he looks like a silver tabby with tarnishing. My (silver classic tabby) Rasputin has a bit of brown colouring on his nose and I was told that's called tarnishing