Cats With Black And White Fur

This litter has two brown kittens two gray kittens and one orange kitten all tabbies.

Cats with black and white fur. In fact you can see black and white persians sphynx cats and even maine coon catswith black and white fur pattern. These more unusual colors are genetically recessive or diluted versions of the darker colors. Locket pattern a predominantly black cat with a small white fur on the tummy or chest. The british shorthair is an incredibly popular cat in england and where they re most commonly blue but the breed can produce black and white cats too.

Cap and saddle pattern the cat has black fur on the top of her head and white on the underside. Cats also come in gray blue chocolate cinnamon lilac cream buff and fawn. If your pet has white fur but her ears and tail are black she is said to have van markings. In the show ring a black and white cat will fall under the bi color division.

A bicolor cat or piebald cat is a cat with white fur combined with fur of some other color for example black or tabby there are various patterns of bicolor cat. Mask and mantle pattern a cat with a white underside and black fur covers the back shoulders and head. Originally bred to keep rodents at bay in homes and on farms shorthair breeds have a thick dense coat that was designed to keep them warm when living outside. For more on cats in formal wear check out tuxedo cats but for pedigree black and white cats check out these 18 cat breeds that are most likely to have individual cats with black and white fur.

These range from turkish van pattern color on the crown of the head and the tail only through to solid color with a throat locket. The black and white coat pattern in cats is sometimes referred to as pied cats magpie and even patched.