Solid White Exotic Shorthair Female

Understanding the genetics of a solid white cat

Usually, solid white cats have the dominant white gene (W), and although there are other genes present for fur and eye color, the dominant gene wins out, and there is no pigmentation.

It’s very fascinating because the gene is actually masking the real color of the cat! When a dominant white kitten is born, they’ll often have a few hairs on their head that show their real color, and those hairs disappear before the cat turns a year of age.

A cat can also be white from the white spotting gene (S). While it creates visible white spots on bi-color cats and calicos, it also can create a white spot that covers the cat’s entire body. Graded on a scale from 1 to 10, 10 is completely white and extremely rare.

For a kitten to be solid white, at least one parent must be white.

When you adopt a kitten from us, we are here for the life of the kitten and well beyond.  Our adopting families become friends and our extended family. We are always here to help out if you every have a question, including after adopting your Persian, Himalayan and Exotic Shorthair kitten.

We take pride in not only our Persian, Himalayan and Exotic Shorthair cats and kittens, but on our communication and the entire kitten adoption process. Please know that we will treat you as how we would want to be treated during the entire adoption process. There are a lot of kitten adopting scams out on the internet and we understand your wanting to do your due diligence when researching a Persian, Himalayan and Exotic Shorthair cat breeder to adopt a kitten from.  We encourage you to contact us with any question.  No question should ever go unanswered when you are inquiring about adopting a kitten from a breeder. We hope you will put your trust in us.

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