Cat genetics in normal amounts

Yellow Bellied Weasel (Mustela kathiah), family Mustelidae, order Carnivora, Uttarakhand, India

According to zoologist T. C. Jerdon (1874) in their native range they are sometimes kept as a pet as a form of pest control, and are also used in blood sports, attacking opponents as large as goats

and i was under the impression normal color point cats always always have blue eyes, no extra pigment. he wasn't full grown when we got him and he had light blue eyes, but as he got older they started turning yellow around the pupil? i dont have any younger photos of his eyes when they were all blue, but the difference was noticeable. this is him at less than a year old

and now he's 2 years old and the yellow-ish ring has become his full eye color....i dont even know what to describe this color. i guess they still read as light blue? but having seen them when they were actually Blue, the yellow tint makes them look almost like. silvery gray?

so is it actually possible for color point cats to have a little color pigment in their eyes?? is this a normal variant of light blue that i just haven't seen in other points or is he weird

and i was under the impression normal color point cats always always have blue eyes, no extra pigment. he wasn't full grown when we got him and he had light blue eyes, but as he got older they started turning yellow around the pupil? i dont have any younger photos of his eyes when they were all blue, but the difference was noticeable. this is him at less than a year old

and now he's 2 years old and the yellow-ish ring has become his full eye color....i dont even know what to describe this color. i guess they still read as light blue? but having seen them when they were actually Blue, the yellow tint makes them look almost like. silvery gray?

so is it actually possible for color point cats to have a little color pigment in their eyes?? is this a normal variant of light blue that i just haven't seen in other points or is he weird

and that it for maystelid!

i’m so happy that i participated in this challenge and i stepped out of my comfort zone drawing only weasels and otters.

i tried to use more shapes and movement to capture the mustelids energy :0)

A rarely seen, highly endangered Andean mountain cat and her kitten in Santiago, Chile. Bottom right: older kittens following their mother through the snow. These small felines have long, thickly ringed tails and plush coats with a striking marbled pattern, handy for traversing the chilly, wind-swept ridges of the Andes.

One of South America's rarest felines, the Andean mountain cat is traditionally considered a sacred animal by indigenous Aymara and Quechua people.

And instead of the usual second place poll, i decided to try something else:

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And some of my favourite things from the tags on the polls:

What's even more interesting: in the tournament, the here overall winner polar bear was defeated by the here overall loser sloth bear.

(i'd love to but unfortunately i don't know if he's a homo³ or a hetero⁴)

¹bicolor

²short for Pantalaimon

³homozygote: has two copies of the white spotting allele

Since then (1,5 years) those markings have completely disappeared, and she now appears entirely white.

Could she be a red (flame) point whose markings have faded because she spends so much time sleeping on the radiator? Or is it possible for white to spread across the coat after the first year? I’ve generally only seen cats get darker over time, not lighter.

Wow, that's very interesting. Do you know what was the color of her kittens?