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Question, if you have already established, for everyone, that this is a moggie, then why can't we use moggie slang?

Isa-Dora is not a white base. She is a Black cat, self or tabby[irrelevant], with the tortie red mutation 'and white' because the white is actually caused by a gloving masking gene.   Though I will admit, this whole thread has gone off track with the language topic, and I am just as guilty for it.

Agreed! It is almost second nature! Bring on the Sticky Thread!  

Negative. In my experience, dilute is not he color at all, but simply the expression of dilution in the genes.   Not "oh yes I have a diluted with white" but when it comes to moggies, no one really cares if its a fawn or a lilac, I guess. Interesting though, is the apparent emergence of 'pastel...

In the US the first picture would be referred to as Lilac Tortoieshell and the the third link, still a diluted calico. I'm trying to make sure that i am not being misunderstood here. I do not think that a calico is different from a tortoiseshell I do not think that calico is a breed. I am...

All of my cats are rescued, and fixed, PERIOD. I'm just so curious about this combination. I have a Seal Tabby Point who just turned a year old, his name is Frankie, on account of his baby blue eyes. A few months ago I rescued two Tortie with White sisters out of a parking lot, they were less...

The word 'Calico' originates from 'Calcutta', a city in India known for its beautiful, multicolored fabrics. When the term puddle-jumped it was anglicised to 'Calico'. I would say that in the USA a 'tortoiseshell' refers to a coat that is considerably is more mottled, closely resembling the...

This is extremely dumbed down, my understanding. I.   Snowshoes rely simply on a series of recessive genetic ticks in succession to one another in one cat. The gloving/mask gene and the color point gene were once thought to be one in the same, but expressed differently depending on the genetic...