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What color is your cat? You may think you know\u2014but you could be wrong.<\/p>\nWhat color is your cat? You may think you know\u2014but you could be wrong.<\/p>\n
Do you know the most common cat colors? You might think it\u2019s black because you see a lot of black cats in your neighborhood and at local shelters. Or you notice more bi-color cats. Did you know there are only a handful of common cat colors or styles of color for cats? They are: tabbies, solids and smokes, torties, patched tabbies and calicos, pointed cats, and cats with white markings (also known as bi-color cats).<\/p>\n
Tabby cats (or tiger cats) are striped. Evidently all tabbies have an M on their forehead. ![\"LilyFeb\"](\"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/LilyFeb-300x300.jpg\")
The tabby patterns are thought to be the original color of domesticated cats.<\/p>\n
There are four different tabby patterns, mackerel, classic (or blotched), spotted, and ticked (also known as an Abyssinian tabby). But tabbies come in different colors, brown, red, cream, silver, and blue\/gray.<\/p>\n
Solid or smoke cats are the same color all over\u2014black, blue (gray), white. When the roots of the cat\u2019s fur is white, the color is known as smoke. There are no solid red or cream cats.<\/p>\n
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Smokey, AKA the Klepto Cat<\/p><\/div>\n
This is something I didn\u2019t know\u2014maybe you didn\u2019t either. A cat with just white paws is \u201cmitted.\u201d The white spot on a cat\u2019s chest is called a \u201clocket.\u201d A cat with white belly spots has
\n\u201cbuttons.\u201d A \u201cbi-color\u201d is pretty much half white. Ever heard of a \u201cvan\u201d? This cat is white with a color patch on the head and tail. A \u201charlequin\u201d is mostly white with several large patches of color.<\/p>\n
What is a \u201cjellicle cat\u201d? A black and white cat. And we all know that a \u201ctuxedo cat\u201d is black and white and looks like he\u2019s wearing a tuxedo.<\/p>\n
When it comes to torties and calicos, the<\/p>\n
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Daisy<\/p><\/div>\n
descriptions become more complex. Here\u2019s a link to learn more about these interesting color designations. http:\/\/www.fanciers.com\/other-faqs\/colors.html<\/a><\/p>\n Of course there is also the pointed (Siamese) pattern. This means dark \u201cpoints\u201d on the<\/p>\n cat\u2019s face, paws, and tail. You see points in the Siamese, Himalayan, and some rag dolls and also non-breed cats. The colors vary from dark brown (\u201cseal point\u201d) to reds, grays (blues) and include tabby points and tortie points.<\/p>\n Katie<\/p><\/div>\n This, I thought was fascinating\u2014pointed cats always have blue eyes. White cats and cats with a lot of white markings can have blue, green, gold, copper or odd-eyes (one blue and one green or gold eye). The most common eye color for cats is greenish-yellow to gold.<\/p>\n Now, go take a close look at your cat and see if you can more accurately determine her color. Is she really black or is she smoke? I was told that Lily is a dilute tabby, but this report says that only the blue patched torbies or tabbies are consider dilute tabbies. Now I\u2019m not sure of Lily\u2019s color.<\/p>\n I have a friend who says, \u201cI don\u2019t know what color Lily is.\u201d She says that every picture I send of Lily makes Lily look a different color.<\/p>\n Did this report change your mind about your cat\u2019s color?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What color is your cat? You may think you know\u2014but you could be wrong. Do you know the most common cat colors? You might think it\u2019s black because you see a lot of black cats in your neighborhood and at … Continue reading ![\"Katie\"](\"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/pg-8-katie-eyes-300x212.jpg\")