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kmaben

kmaben

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Random question but really curious. Shya is a britannia petite mix at two years old. She's a shiny black but when the light hits her she has lighter black patches on her sides and stomache. They've been there awhileand I thought they would change as she moulted but they're stuck there. Is there a paticular color name for this or a reason perhaps like diet change? Or is it sun bleached perhaps? Just curious.
 
Hard to say without a good picture. A black panther is actually a leopard but only with the single color. In the right light you can still see the "spot" pattern on them even though they are a single color. Might it just be a little bit of a pattern in the fur?
 
I think you may be on to something Nancy. I'll see if I can get a pic.

A: She has to sit still for it

B: Have to see if I can get her in the light!
 
Managed a couple of snap shots. Pattern or sun bleached?

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Shya was about a year old when we got her. Her original name was "patches"
 
lol she looks like she is molting. The lighter fur being the dead and the darker coat being the new coat.
 
Peter looks like that when he sheds. He starts from the bottom and goes up both sides--for a short period he has a "Mohawk" look. Definitely a color difference. Mr. B changed color and pattern as he got older with each shed--he was a Sealpoint Dwarf and even got a large white spot around his nose that he didn't have for his first 8 years.
 
Yeah--strangely enough I would say it just looks like a molting to me as well. But if she is like this all the time, and the pattern and hair length does not change, I would just say it's sun bleaching of some kind. I'm not aware of any such pattern or a name for it.
 
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