Yeah I was wondering if it was a photoshop, myself. So it’s really only possible for this pic to be a chimera or a photoshop, yeah? You’re saying this can’t be a tortie?
Yeah, as far as I’m aware (and I spend way too much time reading about cat coat genetics), that combination of colors could only happen in a cat with 2 unique sets of DNA. I would still call that a tortie, though.
That blue eye though, I don’t know enough about eye color genetics to confidently say, but the other features of the cat look like a Maine Coon, so it is possible that this cat came from a breder and there was intentional selection for eye color.
I have never seen a bright blue eye like that on an orange cat. I think Photoshop is definitely a possibility, but also, sometimes nature just does a wild artistic cat for all of us.
Looks like a Maine Coon, so probably came from a breeder, and while it’s not an area I’ve really dug into, it looks like there are some Maine Coon breeders producing cats with blue eyes. Could naturally be blue, but the brightness definitely seems artificial.
Yeah I was wondering if it was a photoshop, myself. So it’s really only possible for this pic to be a chimera or a photoshop, yeah? You’re saying this can’t be a tortie?
Yeah, as far as I’m aware (and I spend way too much time reading about cat coat genetics), that combination of colors could only happen in a cat with 2 unique sets of DNA. I would still call that a tortie, though.
That blue eye though, I don’t know enough about eye color genetics to confidently say, but the other features of the cat look like a Maine Coon, so it is possible that this cat came from a breder and there was intentional selection for eye color.
I have never seen a bright blue eye like that on an orange cat. I think Photoshop is definitely a possibility, but also, sometimes nature just does a wild artistic cat for all of us.
Looks like a Maine Coon, so probably came from a breeder, and while it’s not an area I’ve really dug into, it looks like there are some Maine Coon breeders producing cats with blue eyes. Could naturally be blue, but the brightness definitely seems artificial.