How to Assess the Quality of Silver Gradient Cats, and How to Distinguish Between Silver Gradient and Silver Point Cats

How to identify the quality of silver gradient cats?

How to distinguish between silver gradient and silver point cats?

Silver gradient cats (British Shorthair Cat) are bred from British Shorthair cats (blue-gray) and Goldeneye cats. The underlying hair on the whole body is pure white. The hair on the back, ribs, head and tail is dyed into smoke color, and the appearance shows a shimmering silver feature. The limbs have slight hair tips staining. Currently, folded ear silver gradient and upright ear silver gradient are common in the market.

The most distinctive feature of silver gradient is the hair tip color. A good British Shorthair silver gradient cat should have 1/8 to 1/6 of the hair tip black, and the other parts are white. The overall color of silver gradient will vary depending on the amount of black in the hair tip. The more black part, the darker the overall color, and vice versa. For those who don’t know how to distinguish the quality, simply put, whether it’s a silver gradient or a silver point, the less black in the hair tip, the better the overall white, currently silver point gradient cats are generally 1-2 times more expensive than silver gradient cats.

Some people may think that the lighter the color, the better the quality, but it's not always the case. The beauty of silver gradient lies in the overall uniform and colorless hair, not the lighter the color, but the more uniform the overall color, and try not to have obvious color blocks or stripes. If the overall color is uniform, it will be easier to show silver, and it will be dirt-resistant and not show dirt, which is the key to selecting the color of silver gradient cats.

Of course, if the budget is limited, these conditions can be relatively lowered. In fact, raising pets, you and the cat can get along, and have a good feeling, the quality as long as not defective cat or sick cat, it’s fine, after all, time and effort will come naturally ~

Silver point is a color gene mutation that appears during the breeding of silver gradient cats. However, because this color gene is difficult to find in the history of British Shorthair development, the CFA association currently does not recognize silver point color, but other associations do. The characteristic of color gene is to show color on the face and tail end, and the color will change with temperature, the higher the temperature, the lighter the color, and the lower the temperature, the darker the color. Another characteristic of silver point is that the eyes are always blue, no other colors will appear.

psThe color gene of silver point can refer to Persian cats, Siamese cats, etc., which are also colored cats

Silver gradient and silver point cats are distinguished by their color codes: (AS 11)AS is black hair silver gradient (AS 11 33) Black hair, blue-eyed silver gradient (NS 11) Coffee-colored silver gradient (W61) No hair tip color, four limbs and nose are pink, blue-eyed pure white British Shorthair.

Silver point gradient color code (NS 11 33), silver point gradient is a functional cat, it can enhance the effect of whitening, NS means hair tip color is coffee color, 11 means the depth of the back hair color, 11 is the shallowest color, followed by other color codes, currently color code 11 is considered the best quality. 33 refers to the color of the cat's eyes, blue or lake blue.

For novice cat owners, it’s hard to distinguish between silver gradient and silver point cats. In short, silver point gradient and silver gradient are most evident in their eyes, blue-eyed is silver point, other-colored eyes are silver gradient. Besides, the silver point hair is much lighter than silver gradient.

About silver point and silver gradient, that’s all for now, everyone has any questions please leave a comment in the comment area, I will sort it out for everyone to reference~

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