I am not a "Cat" person but do own 3 cats, I own a ranch. Anyhow, I have one cat that is definately a "Tabby" but she is a mix of two colors, orange and gray stripes. is this normal or rare??? Thanks for your answers.
I can't speak for the OP's cat, but that's not how I would describe my mom's kitty. She's a plain brown tabby, but with red blotches very well mixed into her fur. Not defined patches. No white. When she was a baby her red areas weren't obvious; the only sign she wasn't fully tabby was a small cream spot on one foot. I'll try to get pictures.Pictures would help but it sounds like a blue tortie tabby (usually with white)
Whether you would describe it that way or not really doesn't matter, that's the term the cat fancy uses. Bit like pet owners saying grey and orange - doesn't make that description correct.I can't speak for the OP's cat, but that's not how I would describe my mom's kitty. She's a plain brown tabby, but with red blotches very well mixed into her fur. Not defined patches. No white.
The pictures are hard to see, but she looks a lot like my brown patched tabbies, which I believe are called torbies in some parts of the world. Here are the two of them togetherI know, the pics are crummy. The lighting is terrible in my mom's basement. Her tortie-ness is pretty obvious in real life. . .I don't think it's just rufousing--the red is redder than what I consider rufousing :lol3:. Now, we just need to know, is this what the OP's kitty looks like?
Lovely photos, and the paw pads show the coat colour
She looks a LOT like some of the kittens from a litter I rescued several years ago who were brown torbie, aka brown patched tabby or if you want to get technical brown mackerel torbie or brown mackerel patched tabby (mackerel refers to them having the tabby stripes). The two that did not have white also had paws like that. Of course the one that has white, her paws are just white so she doesn't have that.Excuse the poor quality. . .I just took these pics of Mimi in the basement with my cell phone, LOL.
In this one, you can see her "tortie paw":