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Hi and welcome to TCS! I think Callie is a classic tabby - see that 'bullseye' on her side? Tortoiseshells don't have such distinct stripes/segregation in colors, their colors are more 'blurred'/blended into each other; and calicos' colors are more patched with a lot more white fur.

She has a very striking pattern as well as pretty coloring. She is a cutie!
 

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Agree, but I suspect she is a tortie too. There is a reddish splotch in the bullseye on the right side. So yourvprettiw will be calked for a torbie.

Observe the whitish around her mouth prob isnt a true white spot, but its typical for tabbies.
 

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Our little buddy, Elliot, is a brown and black tabby but he also has white under his chin and cream colored fur on his belly.

I don't think it was meant to say that, if a cat has ANY three colors of fur it is calico. Different shades of brown could count is one color. If the fur on a cat's belly can be a different shade and still count as one color. Even a brown tabby has white under his chin so just an accent doesn't really count a a color, per se.

I think the cat in the pictures is a super cool looking classic tabby! :)
 

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A difficulty here is, black / brown tabbies do often have warm brown nuances, which looks reddish.
There is also a fenomen called for rufism - which does looks reddish. Without being a true red.

So while I think this red sploch on the right bullseye is THE revealing, but not even I am sure.

Question: how is her foot pads? Are all black or is some of them reddish??
 
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A difficulty here is, black / brown tabbies do often have warm brown nuances, which looks reddish.
There is also a fenomen called for rufism - which does looks reddish. Without being a true red.

So while I think this red sploch on the right bullseye is THE revealing, but not even I am sure.

Question: how is her foot pads? Are all black or is some of them reddish??
Hi, her foot pads are all black except for one that is pink 😁 in the end that not matter what she is, cause she is special to us, all together we have 9 babies mostly rescues.
 

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Hi, her foot pads are all black except for one that is pink 😁 in the end that not matter what she is, cause she is special to us, all together we have 9 babies mostly rescues.
ah, pink? Is there a white sock on this leg?? If yes, the diagnose is unsure, but if no, we may presume she IS a tortie, ie here, a beautiful torbie.
 

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She has no white on her, maybe just what is around her mouth,or maybe is cream.
OK, so its settled 100%. She is a tortie, ie here, a torbie.
The white around the mouth (and eyss) is one of they typical tabby characteristics. Its no true white spot gene.
 

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Yes, she‘s 100% a lovely torbie!😀 (with a classic tabby pattern as a basis)
 

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I also think she is a Torby dsh because of the pink paw and the red patch in the middle of her bull’s-eye, with a classic tabby pattern. She is gorgeous. She looks like such a sweet girl.💕
 
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