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Tortie or Calico??

post #1 of 17
9/25/11 at 5:26pm
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Hi, I hope I'm in the right forum section... Can anyone tell me if my Boo cat is a calico or a tortoiseshell?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...0516BooBoo.jpg
..more pics at http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ets/Boo%20cat/
Thankyou!
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post #2 of 17
9/25/11 at 5:42pm
I think most people would call her calico. And a very pretty girl!
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post #3 of 17
9/25/11 at 5:47pm
a calico i think
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post #4 of 17
9/25/11 at 7:06pm
Torties have no large patches of white, so she's a calico.
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post #5 of 17
9/30/11 at 10:34am
The color naming depends on the cat registry you go with and the country you are in but generally speaking in the US we'd call her a calico as she has white markings on her.

Strictly speaking torbies are red and brown patched with stripes (or red and silver with stripes) and torties are the solid (non-agouti, ie no stripes) version. It can be confusing as the red almost always has stripes to it but that's because of the way the hair shaft in non-agouti red works.

Dawn
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post #6 of 17
9/30/11 at 10:40am
I have heard that coloring referred to as "tortico."
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post #7 of 17
9/30/11 at 10:55am
She's very cute! HAHAHA I was looking in the Photobucket pics and couldn't figure out WHAT ANIMAL was on her head LOL.
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post #8 of 17
9/30/11 at 12:44pm
I would call her tortie and white as her color is brindled and not patched
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post #9 of 17
9/30/11 at 2:19pm
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Originally Posted by Pendraig View Post
The color naming depends on the cat registry you go with and the country you are in
Exactly, here she would be a Tortie and White
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post #10 of 17
9/30/11 at 5:22pm
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Originally Posted by missymotus View Post
Exactly, here she would be a Tortie and White
Same thing over here.
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post #11 of 17
10/1/11 at 8:09am
She is gorgeous!!!

I always heard true calicoes had all white on their bellies and legs and most of the patches are on their backs and heads, so I would go with tortico (cute, I've never heard that before) or tortie and white. Little One (in my siggy) I think of as a true tortie.

Whatever she is, she is a beautiful girl!
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post #12 of 17
10/1/11 at 9:42am
I would say tortie with white. Most calicoes I have seen have more white.
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post #13 of 17
10/1/11 at 11:30am
Here she would definitely be tortie and white. Calicos are much more patches of colour.
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post #14 of 17
10/3/11 at 12:24pm
Thread Starter 
Hi, thankyou all so much for your replies! It seems by the variety of answers that there's no easy definitive one, so I guess I'll just call her tortico then as it seems a more open term than tortoiseshell or calico. Boo & I are much obliged to you all.
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post #15 of 17
10/3/11 at 1:22pm
I would say calico based on her white-ness, but thats someone from the US talking
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post #16 of 17
10/3/11 at 4:38pm
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Originally Posted by Fidget View Post
so I guess I'll just call her tortico
Except that's not a real colour term
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post #17 of 17
10/3/11 at 6:45pm
I think you should just call her "Gorgeous".
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