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Tabby, Torbie or Calico?

post #1 of 11
10/19/11 at 12:46am
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I have a great cat named Jango and I am curious if he is considered a Tabby.
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Also I have another cat and I am not sure what her pattern is called either....is she a Torbie or a Calico?
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I am curious what other people think. My vet called Jango, not quite a Classic Tabby but He isn't quite a Mackerel Tabby. She called my other cat Ailyn a Calico because she has white on her but I thought she was a Torbie.

Thanks
Dianna
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post #2 of 11
10/19/11 at 1:58am
The first cat is a brown classic tabby. The second is a tortie tabby bicolor (US people call a torbie?). Can't see the pattern clearly because the back isn't showing, but either a tortie mackerel tabby or tortie spotted tabby bicolor.
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post #3 of 11
10/19/11 at 7:35pm
What they call it depends who you ask and where you are, but in TICA your torbie would be called a brown mackerel torbie & white. Torbie is also sometimes called patched tabby or tortie-tabby.
I have a brown ticked torbie with white myself.
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post #4 of 11
10/19/11 at 10:43pm
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Here is some pictures so you can see her back a bit better:

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http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QknvPtoUFs...dAilyn+024.JPG

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R9WeQ6UU4b...dAilyn+026.JPG

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n7DC2DUNWB...dAilyn+034.JPG

Thanks,
Dianna
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post #5 of 11
10/19/11 at 11:46pm
I just wanted to say your cats are beautiful!
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post #6 of 11
11/26/11 at 10:15pm

Our Neely is a long-haired torbie and torbies are known to be quite mischievous - Neely is a super diva!  Here is a pic of her:

neely beth's chair.jpg

 

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post #7 of 11
12/8/11 at 7:17am

Look at Neelys tail....gorgeous. cloud9.gif

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post #8 of 11
12/8/11 at 10:42am

Here is my ticked torbie, Harlequin:

 

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(she loves getting her picture taken!)

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post #9 of 11
1/26/12 at 5:33pm

beautiful!

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post #10 of 11
3/21/12 at 5:48am

my shelter has coined the phrase Tabico for the coloration of your cat meaning tabby marking and patches of red so tabico and white ,she isvery cute!

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post #11 of 11
3/21/12 at 9:18pm
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Originally Posted by Allison Grondin View Post

my shelter has coined the phrase Tabico for the coloration of your cat meaning tabby marking and patches of red so tabico and white ,she isvery cute!


While Tabico is a cute little name, it's not an official cat cololur.

 

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