Coat Colors and Pattern Changes

Mokave cats often change their coat color as they grow. I've never seen anything like it! Sometimes the coat pattern of a Mokave cat will alter as it matures. It's common for the spots to grow larger and often develop rosettes... but with my Lynx Cats, the spots can also get darker or almost disappear, according to the changing seasons. Weird!

Color Example #1

These photos show Jazzi's color transistion from 3 weeks of age to 1 year.
Jazzi darkened to a gorgeous mahogany and became one of my breeding queens in 2009.

Color Example #2

Kalihari went from a little ugly duckling to a BIG black swan!
These photos were taken from when she was nine weeks old to two years old.

Color Example #3

Here's my strangest example.
Ziggy at one week to six months -- look at how his coat kept changing colors!

Eye Color Changes

All felines are born with blue eyes. The eyes of domestic kittens change to their permanent color after a couple of months. Mokave cats are unusual in that their eye color can change as they grow throughout their first year, and can change again once they fully mature!

Blue-Eyed Mokave Kitten

Brown-Eyed Young Kyra

Gold-Eyed Adult Kyra

Growth Patterns Of Mokave Jag Cats

Compare Mokave kittens to domestic kittens and you'll see some major differences. For example, my kittens don't even really start to grow until they are five months old. Then they have growth spurts every month or so for the first year, every three or four months in their second year, and every six months or so in their third year. Here are some average ranges for both housecats and Mokave cats:

Growth Example #1

Mokave's Snow King Ashanti was a normal-sized kitten but grew to be a BIG boy.
This gentle giant weighed 16.8 pounds when he was only 10 months old!

5 Weeks

5 Months

10 Months

Growth Example #2

Mokave's King Phoenix was the smallest kitten born in 2006. He turned out to be one of the biggest cats in my cattery!

3 Weeks

6 Months

F2 Savannah Compared To Phoenix

Growth Example #3

Aristacat was a normal sized kittten but he grew to be 28 pounds of monster kitty!

5 Months

30 Months

36 Months