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.
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...