![]() The tail, legs, and face will have tabby pencilings. The body may exhibit a barely perceptible spotted pattern. The tawny pattern is a ticked tabby pattern marked by ticking on the body hair with various shades of the marking color and ground color, with the outer tipping being the darkest and the undercoat being the ground color. In the sepia, mink, and snow subdivisions, it is desirable for ghost leopard spots to appear on the bodies. The markings on the face and forehead are typical tabby markings, with the underside of the body having distinct spots. A dorsal stripe runs the length of the body to the tip of the tail. Contrast with ground color may not be as distinct as in some spotted breeds. Preference is given to rosette spots which are formed by a part-circle of spots around a distinctly lighter center. The spots may vary in size and shape, but should be evenly distributed. It is marked by spots of the darker color, most prominent on the sides of the body and the belly. The leopard pattern is a spotted tabby pattern. Solid colored cats, as well as cats in classic and mackerel The coat patterns are tawny (ticked), leopard (spotted), and clouded leopard (marbled). Desert Lynx come in three coat patterns in all eumelanistic and melanistic colors–ebony, blue, sorrel, fawn, chocolate, lilac, red, and cream –including silvers, cameos, sepias, minks, and snows. #Highland lynx full#It may be full length or any length in between. The tail may be the length of the bobcat tail, which may come half way to the ground, or it may be lacking entirely, as in the Manx. The wide set eyes are large and expressive, set at an angle, with colors ranging from gold to green, with blue eyes in the snows. The ears are large and set wide apart, usually with feathering and tufts on the tip. The head is large but not round, with a full, well-developed muzzle that is almost square in appearance, with prominent whisker pads. These cats come in both long and short hair. ![]() Males are larger than females and slower to mature. Desert Lynx are medium in length with longer hind legs, and toes may be tufted. Through generations of selective breeding with different breeds of domestic cats, the breed has incorporated many characteristics similar to those of the bobcat. While the Desert Lynx today is a completely domstic cat*, it is bred to resemble the bobcat. It is a powerful animal with long legs and a muscular body and is noted for its short tail. The bobcat is somewhat larger than domestic cat breeds. Feral bobcats, Lynx rufus, inhabit most of North America, from as far south as the Florida Everglades and northern Mexico north into Canada. ![]()
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