What to call this coloring?

This is one of my latest fosters. We're not quite sure what to call her coloring. She's a mix of soft brown, gold and cream, more muted than a dilute tortie, but I'm not sure you'd call her a tabby either. Thoughts?

She looks like a golden tabby. What color are her paw pads?

almost like a torbie=my honeybee is a female almost entirely orange but she has grey spots on her back like your kitty-I thought it was tiger stripes but we got her hair cut and it was obvious spots instead of tiger print. Almost looks the same on your kitty. my cat has tiger print on her paws and head but splotches of color on her back. her tummy is white too. is this kitty have any white on her?

She is very gorgeous!

Her toes are black, and she has white on her chin down onto her neck.

We had a golden tabby last year, this is him:


He had a lot more orange on him, very striking coloring, I haven't seen one quite his color before.

She is apparently a tabby looking at her head.  But her backside is bewildering, very true.   So now I remember my rule of thumb, which I made up several years ago:  if you find the colors are bewildering, you dont know what is up nor what is down, it must be a torbie.

And usually, so it is.

Here it goes extra complicated becuse she is a semi-longhair.  - not longhair, her tail isnt THAT bushy.

Ok, what next.  She is probably diluted. she seems to be with white.  Ergo; she is a calico - making it into a diluted caliby or diluted patched tabby if you so want.

That is what I think.  

She's a real little beauty.

StefanZ said:

 
 So now I remember my rule of thumb, which I made up several years ago:  if you find the colors are bewildering, you don't know what is up nor what is down, it must be a torbie.

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That's a very good rule Stefan. I'll remember that one. If I don't know what I'm looking at she must be a torbie.

@StefanZ  - I like that rule too! Caliby is a new one for me - we call those Tabicos.

I'll try for a few more photos of her. I spent days cleaning the ear mites out of her and her sister's ears, and now that she's feeling so much better, her energy level would put a Tasmanian Devil to shame. It's hard to get her to sit still long enough to take a photo. Her sister is equally lovely, but completely different in coloring, she's also DMH, but almost completely white.

I call that a torbie.  It's not unusual for torbs to have lighter areas under the chin, but they don't appear to be pure white.  Likewise the other white on her looks to be light tipping and not white.

Here is my torbie kitten foster, longhaired, Gingham.



She also has that light area around her mouth and chin, and some on her chest, but I don't consider her torbie/white.  If you keep with naming conventions, a caliby or tabico should have large, distinct patches of white, otherwise it'd be just a torbie/white.  Like not any tortie with small white markings is a calico; they ought to have distinct and large markings.

She's definitely got tabby markings with little flecks of calico in her too. I've seen kittens grow into more pronounced tabby patterns, so maybe she'll end up with tiger stripe patterning, which always looks great.

@Kat Hamlin Ginghim looks like a regal, majestic little guy.

Some associations call the color/pattern torbie (tabby-tortoiseshell). In CFA terminology she's a brown patched tabby (brown tabby with patches of red mixed in). Gorgeous kitty.

Wow, all of tbose babies are so beautiful!!! [emoji]128571[/emoji]

Whatever colouring, she is beautiful. Not to be labelled and 'put in a box'. She is unique.