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What color is my Kitty?
Do you knw what color your kitty is? Tortoiseshell, calico, torbie or tricolor? Her coloring and patterning let you know for sure.
When you see a cat with two colors blended and no distinct patterning, you're looking at a tortolseshell. Tortoiseshell coats are often made up of patches of red and black ~ if dilute, then cream and blue. A cat with two colors and a distinctive pattern all over is called a torbie (short for tortoiseshell tabby). The torbie pattern is also called a patched tabby.
Torbies are essentially a combination of tortoiseshell and the tabby pattern.
A calico is mostly white with two other colors (red, black, blue, chocolate, lilac, or cinnamon) broken up into distinct patches. The white part of the coat is usually more prominent on the underside of the body, and the colored patches tend to be larger and more distinct than in the tortoiseshell or torbie pattern.
A tricolor cat, as the name implies, is simply a cat with three colors. Calico cats are good examples. Common tricolor combinations include red, black and white; red, chocolate and white, cream, blue and white, and cream, lilac and white.
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