Feb 18, 2025
This is my boy Laszlo. He's been mistaken for a bengal, but he's definitely not. I've also been told he's a melanistic tabby but i struggle to find any pictures of cats that actually look like him
i’d say he’s what’s called pseudomelanistic! (we don’t know exactly what genes cause this yet) this happens when an excess of melanin is produced, making dark markings much more prominent. this is also called abundism !
dx: a black classic tabby with pseudomelanism/abundism
that link doesn’t have any cats that look exactly like him, but as pseudomelanism like this seems to be a random mutation and not following some standard, there could be a lot of different things that cause it depending on the cat and it could look pretty different between cats
