Cats: Colouring for Mindfulness

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Then, you can decide on which other fun colors you will use for the rest of the outfit and its details! What kind of color scheme do you think you will choose for this kitty teddy bear? To date, the genetics of feline eye colour have not been heavily studied apart from blue eyes, which are unusual in cats. Eye colour is complex and mediated by multiple genes, and odd eyes are most common in epistatic white cats where one eye is blue and the other is orange, yellow, brown or green. Polydactyl cats, with more than the usual number of toes on one or more paw, is a result of the gene Polydactyla, which encodes for the protein Sonic hedgehog (SHH), which has key roles in cell growth, cell specialisation and the normal shaping (patterning) of the body. Recent work has shown that the defect is generally the same in cats as in humans. The extra digits can vary in number and also in structure, often looking like a thumb. Alternatively, if you're looking for something a bit different, have a look at our Distance Colouring Sheet. Why is it vital that children engage in colouring activities?

Oh no! This cat’s hunting instincts have caused him to take a special interest in a fishbowl. He paws at the fish inside and is sure to get in trouble soon.

It’s time to play some dress-up with this next adorable picture. This next little cat is dressed up as a cute frog, and it really just melts your heart. It wasn’t until the late 1800s that the ‘cat fancy’ came to be, when Englishman Harrison Weir carried out the first pedigree cat show and published the book Our Cats and All About Them: Their Varieties, Habits and Management. The guide established the standards for the common breeds of the time. Since then, based on genetic data from more than 1,000 cats, at least 17 random-bred populations of domestic cats have been identified, constituting 22 breeds. Over 70 genetic variants have been defined and about 40 of these affect the appearance of the cat – that is, coat colour, coat pattern, coat length, eye colour and body structure. The University of California, Davis, surveyed 1,200 cat guardians in 2015 and published the results in the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science. The respondents were asked to choose a color category that best represented their cat and to answer questions about cat colors and their cats’ behaviors. The results seemed to confirm a reputation that calicos and torties are feisty and unpredictable.

The petals on this flower give you many opportunities for some bright and vibrant color choices, and there are so many ways you could do it. He looks very comfortable in his new favorite spot. Hopefully, no one needs their shoes any time soon.This pigment pattern is the result of a temperature- sensitive mutation in tyrosinase, the enzyme that converts tyrosine into the different types of melanin. There is also some blank space on the cat, so you could draw some extra markings and patterns onto it that you can color as well.

There’s also a pattern called patched tabby. These are female cats with any of the four tabby patterns but that also show additional red-colored patches due to their inherited sex-linked orange gene, Miller explains. Classic tabbies, also called blotched tabbies, have a combination of stripes, swirls, blotches and what looks like a bull’s-eye on the sides of their bodies. The Bengal cat was created as a hybrid of domestic cats, including the spotted Egyptian Mau and the Asian leopard cat ( Prionailurus bengalensis), giving Bengals their wild appearance and spots, rosettes, arrowhead markings or marbling. Some cat eye colors are linked to coat colors or patterns. For example, white cats can have blue, yellow, gold or odd eyes. “Any cats that have inherited the piebald-spotting factor can have odd-eye color — one blue eye and one golden, yellow or greenish eye,” Miller says. Cats with the point-restricted color pattern, like the Siamese, have blue eyes because of a gene that is linked to albinism. Tonkinese often have aqua eyes. “Tonkinese showing the deeper Burmese coat colors (sable, blue, champagne or platinum) will have gold or green eye color,” Miller says.Did you know cats are often associated with Halloween because of their mysterious and nocturnal nature? Read more about cat color and genetics on Paws and Effect >> When it comes to coat patterns, here’s a mind-blowing fact: All cats start as tabbies. Photography by Casey Elise Photography. The tabby pattern Sometimes cats think that they are almost like royalty. In this cute cat coloring sheet, a beautiful cat seems a little bit spoiled. It’s cuteness overload for this next scene. We have another kitten for you to color, and it looks like it is ready to play!

This picture gives us a calming feeling, so we would use some softer colors done with some watercolor paints or colored pencils to make them even softer. Epistasis occurs when the expression of one gene is affected by the expression of one or more independently inherited genes. One example is how white coat colour is regulated: white fur in cats is epistatic over all other coat colours. There are two genes responsible for white fur: White W/w and Spotting S/s. Epistatic White produces a fully white cat with no melanin production at all, and is linked to blue eyes and deafness. In contrast, the more variable white pattern of Spotting can take many forms, from a small spot of white, to ‘tuxedo’ patterns, to the mostly white pattern of the Turkish Van cat. For example, you could give the picture an Easter theme by drawing some decorated Easter eggs around this cute kitty! The tabby pattern is probably the most recognizable of all cat coats and can be found in both short-haired and long-haired varieties. This type of coloration usually features stripes or swirls of different shades on the body, legs, and face. The primary tabby patterns are orange tabby and gray tabby, but there are sub patterns as well depending on the exact location and pattern of the stripes.

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When it comes to cat colors and coat patterns, here’s a mind-blowing fact: All cats are tabbies. “Whether they show their tabby pattern or not depends on whether the cat has inherited the dominant agouti gene or the recessive non-agouti solid color gene,” she explains. “However, even solid-colored red cats will show tabby pattern because the sex-linked chromosome is not affected by the non-agouti gene. Solid-color kittens will sometimes show their underlying tabby pattern when young before their kitten coat sheds and the adult coat grows in. Also, when an adult cat with a solid coat lies in bright sunlight their underlying tabby pattern can often be faintly seen.” The tabby pattern includes the characteristic “M” marking on their foreheads and four basic types: