When I was looking at her picture "Sabrina" just poped into my mind.
Interesting, you definitely know more about cat colouration than I do. I have definitely noticed in the past that torties tend to have much smaller patches than calicos, and since this would be a calico/tabby due to the amount of white I suppose you would expect larger orange patches and not some wispy background orange, although there is one are on the forehead in that tabby M that has what looks like a small patch of orange where the brown changes to orange, that makes me believe it still might be a torbie. I don't know if you can see it in the above pics, but I have another that is better, but we are at the cottage this week and I'm trying to post from this linux netbook, and I don't understand linux well (sorry for the run-on sentence). I was looking at the pics that I took when we first went to see the kitten and I can see that at least on one front paw the pads alternate black and pink. I don't know what significance that would have. We get him/her on Monday so I will take and post pics then and you guys can help me figure out the gender if I can't on my own, and maybe more about the colouring.In this photo the kitten looks like a brown (black) tabby with white, with lovely clear markings. Since he's with white, the orange areas should be fairly clear patches if he was a tortie tabby. In cats without white, or with very little, the black & orange areas would be smaller and very intermingled. You can see definite patches in the cat in the last photo - the one on her back looking winsomely up.
If there's no white on the feet then you often get a mix of pink and black on the pads - but looks like your kitten has four white feet! And feel the pink nose is because if it had fur, the fur would be white.
Testicles are not always obvious at that age, but the scrotum should be easy to spot between the anus and the urethra. The two are much futher apart in boys than girls, the distance is about the width of my thumb on my adult girl and 2-3 times that on my adult (neutered) boy.
Should add that a brown tabby can be very warm coloured and that's what your kitten looks like to me, at least in that photo. Unforunately it's rather dark. Got any more photos?
Only that if it's a boy it's either Ezekiel (Zeke, or Zekie), or Finley (Fin). Sabrina is cute though, I'll suggest it to the girls.
Thanks, I totally see what you're saying. I would think that the orange areas of a torbie should be dark orange on light orange, not black on orange. I did see Toygers on my google searches, they are really neat, and also surprising colouration for males. The only area on my (future) kitten that makes me think it's a torbie is on it's forehead. Maybe I can figure out how to post a pic on this computer.
Great pictures, She is so cute! she's like, "I hide'n, & you can't find me." LOL!This pic shows that funny orange patch on his/her forehead that looks kinda torbie to me.
This one is just cute.
You can see that she has a big orange tabby splotch on her neck in this picture
Another orange tabby splotch on the tummy
Just a cute pic showing her colouring in good lighting. She has these rusty looking spots on her back that you can see. Not sure if they are due to orange colouration or rufousing.
You can see the one dark orange stripe she has on the inside of her arm amid the other black stripes.
The backs of her feet look very calico.
Just another cute pic, but the use of the flash is unfortunate. At least they don't glow red like my siamese's eyes did LOL.
Chilling out, showing off her pretty stripes.
This one shows more orange tabby splotches on her hind leg.
Thank you
So far she's not sure about the kong catnip spray I bought. When she gets a whiff of it she squints her eyes and shakes her head. Maybe I just used too much? I put some on the post and she hasn't shown much interest in it. She did climb onto the carpeted cat tree today but didn't scratch it, but it doesn't have that rope stuff on it like the post. I tried scratching the post myself but she just looks at me. She is 4 months old. I love the pink collar on her too, I bought it ahead because I was sure she was female, and if I was wrong I could have exchanged it. I love how it looks with her little pink nose.
Oh nice, that one looks much better than what I have. Mine is so short, I got it for $5 used, but couldn't tell how small it was in the picture. Our cat tree is huge but carpeted, and I don't know if she'll use it for scratching. It says they ship to Canada too, thanks for the link!
