by sunlithollow » Fri Oct 03, 2025 9:26 am
We’ve already got various realistic cats, but I think a litter of cats with (visual) chimerism could be interesting (if it’s properly researched - split face marking doesn’t equal chimerism and all that).
Like, cats with genetically impossible or improbable color/pattern/coat combos, like cats with both a dilute color and a non-dilute color (chocolate/lilac, black/blue, red/blue, black/red/blue, etc.), cats with different fur lengths (shorthair cat with random patches of longhair, long fur could be a different color or not), cats with a mix of solid and tabby (solid black/black (“brown”) tabby, solid blue/chocolate tabby, etc), cats with two different “base” colors (chocolate/black, black/cinnamon, cinn/choc, maybe a black/white cat w choc patch or something, etc), cats with different tabby patterns (mix of classic/mackerel, ticked/classic, etc), cats with both pointed (colorpoint) and non-pointed fur, cats with a mix of charcoal-impacted colors & non-charcoal colors (black charcoal tabby/normal tabby), weird/unusual white markings, stuff like that. You could also throw in a few normal-looking cats, like the cats that are chimeras but don’t have any genetically impossible visual indicators!
Also, a litter of various dog breeds would be fun! Or various dog litters, each with a different breed theme, so one litter would have differently colored pups of a certain breed.
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