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Her name is Jinx. i thought she was a tabby breed because of the bottom picture, but her patterns are really swirled on the rest of her body.
Just curious to where you're seeing the tortoiseshell mixed in there? She seems pretty solid red classic tabby to me.She is not an orange tabby.
She IS gorgeous though.
She is a Classic Torbie (tabby/tortoiseshell) meaning she has brown tabby and also orange tabby coloring. Classic refers to the swirl pattern.
As for breed she would be called a Domestic Shorthair.
:-)
The tortoiseshell part of a torbie is brown tabby/orange tabby instead of black and orange. She has a lot of brown in her coat. If you look at the second picture it is pretty obvious, as the black and brown is darker on her face, but even on her side you can see the brown....Just curious to where you're seeing the tortoiseshell mixed in there? She seems pretty solid red classic tabby to me.
Welcome to the both of you!
She has those tufts on her ears, though.... Is she maybe mixed with something else? She was a rescue, so we don't have any records for her.
In order for a cat to be a torbie, it must also be technically tortoiseshell. I'm not seeing any indication this cat has tortoiseshell with its classic tabby. The shade of red can vary on any red cat - and may sometimes even appear to be brown or rust, but that doesn't mean the cat has tortoiseshell.The tortoiseshell part of a torbie is brown tabby/orange tabby instead of black and orange. She has a lot of brown in her coat. If you look at the second picture it is pretty obvious, as the black and brown is darker on her face, but even on her side you can see the brown....
I'm not sure why you keep coming back to this post to argue? And obviously she is not a pure white persian, so the sarcasm is not necessary.In order for a cat to be a torbie, it must also be technically tortoiseshell. I'm not seeing any indication this cat has tortoiseshell with its classic tabby. The shade of red can vary on any red cat - and may sometimes even appear to be brown or rust, but that doesn't mean the cat has tortoiseshell.
Photographs are notoriously deceptive though so who knows? Maybe this is a pure white Persian and we're both wrong.
Domestic Shorthair cats are really what we would call a Mutt in the dog world. They are just random bred, no affiliated breed. In cats, the breeds came from these random bred cats... mutations and various traits show up in stray populations even. Some of these appealed to certain people, were then picked out and bred for to create what breeds we now have. It's the opposite of dogs, where we have breeds and all the Mutts are just mixes of various breeds. I guess with cats you could say that breeds were initially just pretty "mutts" though they have been selectively bred for generations now so they breed true to their created type.She has those tufts on her ears, though.... Is she maybe mixed with something else? She was a rescue, so we don't have any records for her.
Is the only color on its head? Or does it have color on its tail too?
It is hard to tell if that spot on its head is brown tabby or solid black from the picture, but if it also has color on its tail, it would be considered a Van Pattern (black or brown tabby) Domestic Shorthair. Do you have any better pictures?