Patterns in the world of savannahs

We're going to keep it simple today and talk about patterns-- not colors, but patterns that are prevalent in the Savannah world. 

The first and most common PATTERN we speak about when it comes to Savannahs is spotted-- that's because the vast majority of Savannahs are either brown (black) spotted tabbies or black silver spotted tabbies. Fun fact-- all cats are GENETICALLY TABBIES even if the pattern isn't expressed. We can talk about tabbies later, but let's remember-- spots as the number one PATTERN in the Savannah world.

The next pattern is solid-- and for this, we would look towards the melanistic or black Savannah as a solid cat (although as a youngster you can see ghost spots-- remember the 'all cats are genetically tabbies' mentioned above?')

Another pattern that you may not think of when it comes to Savannahs is pointed-- pointed would be any colorpoint from solids to lynx. Colorpoints are typically found on Siamese, Thai and Oriental Shorthairs-- and indeed, it is probably from the OSH that we see colorpoint within our breed.

Marble is a pattern that is less common nowadays but popped up moreso when the breed was younger. Marbles have swirling spots versus clear concise spots.

And the final, very rare,  pattern that we will discuss today is Servaline. Servaline is hundreds of tiny spots that may or may not be clear upon the coat and give more of a ticked appearance from a distance. 

Are there more patterns? Sure! The breed is still THAT new that we may see patterns we weren't expecting pop up. However, if we are considering the breed as a whole-- only brown (black) SPOTTED tabby, black silver SPOTTED tabby, smoke (which debatably can be a color or a pattern depending upon how you look at it) and melanistic (solid black) is permitted in the show hall.