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I wonder if they’re a chimera (i.e. started out as two embryos which fused, and has different genes depending on where you look).
That, or a photoshop. Since the dilution gene hits both colors, a tortie/calico can either be grey and cream or black(brown) and orange.
Yeah I was wondering if it was a photoshop, myself. So it's really only possible for this pic to be a chimera or a photoshop, yeah? You're saying this can't be a tortie?
I have never seen a bright blue eye like that on an orange cat. I think Photoshop is definitely a possibility, but also, sometimes nature just does a wild artistic cat for all of us.
Looks like a Maine Coon, so probably came from a breeder, and while it's not an area I've really dug into, it looks like there are some Maine Coon breeders producing cats with blue eyes. Could naturally be blue, but the brightness definitely seems artificial.