{"id":1877,"date":"2017-04-03T04:27:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T12:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2017-04-03T04:27:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T12:27:02","slug":"mindful-monday-is-she-a-calico-or-a-tortie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1877","title":{"rendered":"Mindful Monday \u2013 Is she a Calico or a Tortie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sophietummy-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sophietummy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sophietummy-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sophietummy.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Do you have a cat of many colors\u2014a calico, perhaps, or a tortoiseshell? Maybe it\u2019s a tabby with a little orange sprinkled into her fur pattern. How do you define this cat?<\/p>\n<p>Sophie looks like a tortie\u2014she\u2019s black with orange flecks. Until she rolls over and reveals her calico tummy. There, you\u2019ll see solid black and white patches. So is she a calico or a tortoiseshell cat? I guess technically, she\u2019s a calico. But no one would believe it to look at her. She appears to be tortie through and through.<\/p>\n<p>Lily is also difficult to define. She\u2019s a light-colored tabby with a hint of orange here and<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_625\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-625\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-625\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/lily-5-months-004-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/lily-5-months-004-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/lily-5-months-004-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lily is waiting patiently for the next book<\/p><\/div>\n<p>there. Some say a dilute tabby. But isn\u2019t a tabby\u2019s fur basically just shades of black or grey or orange, and white stripes or swirls?<\/p>\n<p>What is a pointed cat? This is a cat with light-colored fur and dark feet\/legs, tail, and face. The \u201cpoints\u201d can also be mottled\u2014like a tortie. Is there a tabby point? I know there\u2019s a flame point\u2014that\u2019s when the points are red (orange).<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the most unusual cat color or color-combination you\u2019ve seen? What\u2019s your favorite cat color or breed?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s are a website that discuss cat color. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seregiontica.org\/Colors\/intro.htm\">http:\/\/www.seregiontica.org\/Colors\/intro.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OX_7WlzgcLI\/TU7JaCUScVI\/AAAAAAAABew\/bNzFscJGS-E\/s1600\/tumblr_leys18kBut1qdu3vio1_400.jpg\" \/>And if you don\u2019t like the color of your cat, you can change it. I do not recommend this, but there are people who love dressing their animals and even changing their color to pink, purple, stripes or rainbow depending on their mood or the season. If you do this, be sure to use safe materials or you could end up with a very sick (not to mention embarrassed) cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a cat of many colors\u2014a calico, perhaps, or a tortoiseshell? Maybe it\u2019s a tabby with a little orange sprinkled into her fur pattern. How do you define this cat? Sophie looks like a tortie\u2014she\u2019s black with orange &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1877\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1879,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions\/1879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}