In our experience, tabby British Shorthair cats are more athletic and energetic than their non-tabby counterparts. TemperamentĪ blue tabby will likely have a very similar temperament to your average tabby British Shorthair cat. These are especially unusual! For more information see our page on bicolour cats. BicoloursĪll blue tabbies can also come in the various bicolour patterns: bicolour, harlequin and van patterns. Read more about the silver tabby British Shorthair. Both blue-golden and blue-silver tabbies are incredibly beautiful.
The blue silver is a higher contrast, with the background being almost white. Blue golden tabbies look as though they have been painted. They are very similar in appearance, but the blue-golden tabby is warmer and the combination of the blue on the golden background is very subtle and strikingly unusual - it is incredibly beautiful actually. The blue tabby also comes in ticked, shaded and smoke.īlue tabbies come in either blue-golden or blue-silver. The blue classic tabby is marbled, or rosetted The blue mackerel tabby is stripey, like a tiger Blue tabby patternsīlue British Shorthair tabbies come in all of the many varieties of tabby you can get:
The dilution gene reduces the amount of pigment in the hair, so that black becomes blue. This means that a blue tabby has two copies of the dilution gene. If you would like one please contact us as they don't come along very often! The genetics of the blue tabbyīlue tabbies are genetically identical to black tabbies in all but one way: the blue tabby is homozygous for the dilution gene. V ery occasionally we have blue tabby kittens available in self and bicolour.
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