What Breed Is My Calico Cat?

StefanZ

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She is a pretty domestic. The pattern is torbie and white (as she carries tabby too).
Some would instead say patched tabby.
 

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I would describe her as a patched tabby and white domestic shorthair.... some would say torbie and white, as StefanZ StefanZ says... and some would say "caliby" (calico tabby). She's very pretty! It's a fun color, isn't it?

She isn't a calico, as that would refer to a cat that is genetically a solid colored cat (not a tabby) with black patches (instead of brown tabby patches), red tabby patches, and white.

Her tabby pattern is mackerel (referring to her stripes), and it's normal for mackerel tabbies to have a few spots in addition to the stripes.
 
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