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Im not sure. She is gray but has other colors in her. Thats what my fiancee called her because thats what the vets said. She works at an emergency hospital so I will have her ask the vets again. I'm curious now too. Maybe she is unique
We use 2 classifications for torties: Blue or Chocolate. I am sure that the Cat breeders of America have more distinc classifications. To keep it simple: The light greys are "Blue". Of Calico or Tortie. The Dark rich torties are the "Chocolates"
We would probably list yours as a Blue.
PS: I worked in Emergency & Critical Care too! Now I am strictly into GP.
Teaolive--sorry for the hijack, but this seemed like a good place to ask my question.
Can someone tell from this picture what kind of tortie my girl (on the left) was?
Or was she just a calico? She had some white, as you can see. To me, her face looked so tortoiseshell.
Or is a tortoiseshell merely a form of calico? I guess I am confused.
This pic was taken a year before she died, and her coat deteriorated some during this time.
Sorry I don't have a better picture.
Actually, from looking at a tortie site, I think she was a tortoiseshell tabby.
She definitely had some tabby going on.
I had no ideas calicos and torties were this complicated.
teaolive3, that's exactly how my tortie behaved when I first brought her home: purringly sweet one moment, clawing at your face the next. I assumed it was because of her horrifying experience preceding my adoption of her. She and her two littermates had been discarded into a dumpster in SoCal when they were just a few weeks old. Her two siblings didn't make it and she was nearly starved by the time she was discovered by a rescue worker. I adopted her directly from that person soon thereafter; she was literally covered with fleas and inhabited by ear mites.
That was back in 1992 and I'm happy to say, she's doing just fine in her old age. She's mellowed quite a bit but she has never been a cuddler or a cat that really seems to want human companionship except on that rare occasion. All her original cat companions have long since departed and she has not shown any interest in striking up friendships with the newcomers.
We named her Lilliputian because she was sooooo tiny as a kitten. She is still fairly small and slight of frame. From what tulegirl has written, I'd designate her a 'chocolate' tortoiseshell. She has a white underbelly starting at her chin and going down the entire length of her underside, and white paws. Other wise she is all dark brown and orange. Well blended.
"Do Chocolate Tortie females have Chocolate Tortie kittens?"
I don't think that's a given unless maybe both parents are show-type cats with immaculate pedigrees? The torties/calicos I've known have had variegated litters. That miserable Mama cat I mentioned earlier had just two (males) - one a beautifully symetrically marked tabby and the other a most unusual all-over apricot. A feral tortie across the street recently produced a litter of two - a beautiful all-grey female (guess what my new addition is) and a grey tabby male who was found dead.
One litter can all be fathered by different males...
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