[Jack Garcia]

Yeah, she's blue. They can be patchy and mealy like yours and Rhasputin's, which gives the appearance of being ticked. I've known a couple people who thought blues were chinchillas at first. Chinchilla looks like this:

http://www.hiiret.fi/eng/breeding/varie ... hilla.html

 

[Jack Garcia]

Yeah. She's very cute. I find that with blue, curly coats emphasize the patchiness (even when it's not there much) due to the way pigment is distributed (unevenly, blues actually have more pigment than blacks) and then bent. It's much less noticable an effect than curly coats have on ticked varieties, though. In theory, a good blue could be curly-coated and you wouldn't be able to see any of the patchiness. The self-colored mice make the best examples of all types of curly coats. Blue is just the "least best," I think. Very adorable meece, though.