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Q.: When I was four years old, I got my first cat (or, it got me), it was an ordinary house cat, female, the sweetest in the world. It lived to be nineteen years (!), before it passed away in my lap, after that two years passed, and now I have a new female cat.
What I am curious about is the following: Her mother is an ordinary European house cat, her father neither she or I know anything about. My cat, Grimalkin, doesn't look like the rest of the kittens in the litter at all, I read somewhere that the same litter can have two different fathers?
What I'm actually curious about is, if it is possible that her father is a Russian Blue? She is graceful in the same way as the Russians, the color - gray - is silverish, not dull gray like in most other gray cats I've seen, but: She has a white neck and white paws, and white under the belly.
The eyes have a wonderful, beautiful green shade, she's got gray stripes on her very slender and long tail, very long legs, and a narrow face, corresponding to the pictures I have seen of Russian Blues. The cat as a whole is slender and fine-boned.
She is not so talkative (except right now that she is in heat!), but incredibly playful. The stripes on her tail are not so distinct now compared to when she was little (she was four months old when I got her.)
It is probably hard to say anything definite without having seen the cat, but if you can answer something, I'll be very glad!
A.: It is correct that the kittens in one litter can have two (and even more) different fathers.
I think it is very likely that the father of your cat may have been a Russian Blue. It is usual for Russian Blues to have stripes on their tails as little, these stripes tend to weaken with age.
The white parts would then come from the mother's lines.
When I'm so relatively sure, it is because the combination of blue fur and green eyes is very rare, except precisely among Russian Blues. One may encounter a lot of blue cats, and also quite a few cats with green eyes, but cats who have both are not very common.
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