Toyger coat colors and patterns
The sharpest three-way registry split in our files, stated per registry and never blended. TICA and Australia's ACF recognize exactly ONE color, Brown Mackerel Tabby, and withhold all awards for blue eyes. GCCF recognizes THREE varieties. One of them, the Blue Eyed Snow Mackerel Tabby, is DEFINED by the same blue eyes TICA disqualifies, under GCCF's own still-open, time-limited Bengal outcross policy. A cat that would win nothing in the US or Australia is bred deliberately to that same standard in the UK.
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The color palette
Brown mackerel tabby (the only TICA color)
Braided black stripes
Snow mackerel (GCCF only)
The Toyger in color
Royalty-free photos (Wikimedia Commons), full credits on the breed profile.
What the standard says
The sharpest three-way registry split in our files, stated per registry and never blended. TICA and Australia's ACF recognize exactly ONE color, Brown Mackerel Tabby, and withhold all awards for blue eyes. GCCF recognizes THREE varieties. One of them, the Blue Eyed Snow Mackerel Tabby, is DEFINED by the same blue eyes TICA disqualifies, under GCCF's own still-open, time-limited Bengal outcross policy. A cat that would win nothing in the US or Australia is bred deliberately to that same standard in the UK.
