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Tarnishing can occur in any cat that is a silver or silver tabby. Tarnish is a browning or yellowing of areas of the silver coat, the result of incomplete "clearing" of color by the inhibition gene that creates silvers genetically.
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The grooming challenge of a dilute is to always try to keep the color as light as possible, and to never do anything to the coat that might cause the color to darken. Enhancing the ethereal beauty of the dilute colors of cats often requires a special grooming technique called `tipping`.
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