Therefore, the website does not reflect ALL the animals we have in our care that are available for adoption. You should have seen me chasing cats around trying to get pictures of the bottom of their feet.Before we begin, please know that the majority of our adoptable animals never make it to our website as our adoption coordinators are working behind the scenes with our approved adopters. Okay, so I have way too much time on my hands. So my question is: is the paw pad color determined by the same gene as fur color? Would you ever find a red tabby with black pads or a calico with solid pink pads? What color are your kitties' toes? Their paw pads are a random mix of black and pink. Iris and Cali, Goldy's other two babies, are brown patched tabbies. I only found one picture that shows his pads. Her little boy, Lion, was also a red tabby, and as far as I can remember had all pink paw pads. Goldy is a red tabby with light pink pads except for one foot where she switched the color between one toe and the edge of the large pad. Her large paw pads are all black and her toes are pink. Miss Patchwillow is black smoke and white bicolor. The color in the pictures isn't really accurate, too dark and too much magenta. Her paw pads look light gray at first glance (except for one pink toe), but in better light they actually have a lavender tint to them. Maybe that's what makes them brown instead of black. Merlin's are brown, although they appear to me to have quite a bit of red in them. I know that the breed standard for ruddy abyssinians is black or brown paw pads. Until I started collecting a variety of cats it never occurred to me that paw pads might come in different colors.
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