{"id":5767,"date":"2022-11-04T03:23:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T11:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=5767"},"modified":"2022-11-04T03:23:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T11:23:49","slug":"feline-fun-friday-what-about-the-grey-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=5767","title":{"rendered":"Feline Fun Friday \u2013 What About the Grey Cat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/rip1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/rip1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/rip1-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/rip1-rotated.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong>Yes, they\u2019re as ordinary as they seem\u2014in color anyway. According to experts, grey is the most predominant cat color in North America. Now that\u2019s a bit of trivia I didn\u2019t know. And grey cats are not all mongrel cats. There are quite a few cat breeds that include grey or blue coat colors, including the korat, Russian blue, American shorthair, Norwegian forest<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5364\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/catstripevisit1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/catstripevisit1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/catstripevisit1-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/catstripevisit1-rotated.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> cat, Maine coon cat. Scottish fold and others. With so many grey breeds, maybe that\u2019s why there are so many mixed breed cats born grey.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/kittenlost-e1601983534629-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/kittenlost-e1601983534629-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/kittenlost-e1601983534629-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/kittenlost-e1601983534629-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/kittenlost-e1601983534629.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>There are many shades of grey\u2014grey tabby, deep-dark grey, soft-light grey with silver tones and everything in between. Grey cats come in all sizes too\u2014my mother had a large Maine coon-mix cat at one time. He had long, wild grey fur. His name was one of the most common names for a grey cat\u2014Smokey. Her next cat was a sleek short-hair grey cat with white. She named him Smokey, too.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some interesting names for grey cats: Silver, Charcoal, (Char), Dusty, Misty, Grayson, Shadow, Pearl, and Cinder (Cindy). I&#8217;ll bet just about everyone reading this knows or has known a grey cat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Yes, they\u2019re as ordinary as they seem\u2014in color anyway. According to experts, grey is the most predominant cat color in North America. Now that\u2019s a bit of trivia I didn\u2019t know. And grey cats are not all mongrel cats. 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