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Pixie-Bob Colours and Markings

Only brown spotted tabbies are allowed for competition.

This can encompass many shades accepted as genetic brown spotted tabbies ranging from dove gray, through tawny, through gold's and right into red shades, with corresponding spot colour (a reddish colour cat would have deep copper spots on a lighter orange background like the Coastal Red Bobcat). Please note that this is not genetic red....all Pixie-Bobs must have a black tail tip. All "bobcat" colours are accepted while distinctly domestic colours and patterns such as lynx pointed, bi-colours, blues, etc. would not be accepted for showing and breeding.

Kodiak

Kodiak is an example of a longer haired Pixie-Bob. A longer haired Pixie-Bob does not have really long hair like a Persian, just longer and softer in texture than the short haired. Both are accepted for showing. Kodiak is shown at about 6 months of age.

Cedar

DGRCH. Spunky Kitten Cedar is a shorthaired polydactyl male Pixie-Bob

Natureworks Topaz

Topaz is a shorthaired polydactyl female shown at l2 months (and l5 pounds) out of Aspen and Cedar. Click to enlarge so you can appreciate the lovely ear tips.

Classic patterned Pixie-Bobs do show up quite regularly in breeding programs because of the classic patterned domestic barn cat in the background, but these are never shown and are only used in a breeding program by people experienced in genetics (classic patterns bred to a mackerel pattern will produce spotted offspring).

Izzy, shown here on the right (at about 9 months) is a great example of a Pixie-Bob with good conformation but unfortunately cannot be shown due to his "classic tabby" markings. He is a great cat nonetheless and protects his people from the ever so "dangerous" wild pompoms! (Shown on the right after a successful hunt!)

Undercoat colour must be a mouse gray so if you look into a Pixie-bobs coat, the colour against the skin must be a mousy gray.

The Pixie-Bobs coat can develop a wonderful warmth as they mature. Cedar is an overall gray colour, but his background colour is a rich gold...he rather reminds me of an old Cedar fence post that is just starting to show its aging colour. I have yet to get a photo that truly reflects his true colour or the wildness this colour reflects. The banding on his hair shafts would be a mousy gray next to the skin, then a rich golden, then a tawny gray, with the outermost part of the hair shaft being a cream colour which gives the wonderful "ticked" and grizzled look.

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