Introducing Indy (plus colouring help?)

[Lucyb]

Hi everyone, my name is Lucy and a few days ago I got my first hamster since childhood, a little pet shop boy called Indy.

He's an extremely chilled out, sleepy little guy who loves his food. He is, however, an extremly interesting colour. To begin with I assumed he was a sable roan, but his abundance of white, blaze on face and dapples on his back make me wonder if he's also got something a bit rarer in the mix? It's been a while since I've been involved in the hamster community but I remember talk of recessive dappled hansters, and also polywhites and, although I remember that these were pretty much unheard of in the UK is there a chance that they may exist in pet shops?

Regardless, he's absolutely beautiful, don't you think?

[souffle]

He is very cute. He does have the look of a sable roan however the blaze is not typical of a roan so it looks to me as if he also has the dominant spot gene which is why he is patchy. There is a red back glow from the eyes which you often see when they are White belly carriers. He could also be a black dominant spot banded combo. His ears are very pale though for that but that can come from the pattern. He does look to have eye rings too.
He is indeed adorable

[cypher]

Welcome to HC Lucy & Indy

Look forward to hearing more about Indy, he is a very handsome little ham.

[Lucyb]

Thanks for the welcome guys! Yeah i think sable roan dom spot (is it possible that he could be banded as well, cause he really is mostly white?) sounds about right, he definitely looks darker in those pictures than in real life, plus what i assume were his siblings were sables and umbrous (sp?) goldens, some of them banded.