Look at the markings on Skittles (The Kitten)

[Bertha Venation]

Her mom is a tortoiseshell with some tabby markings, and her dad is a sandy tabby. This is the mom's second litter; each litter has produced a ginger tabby.

When I first saw her, I thought surely she was a tortoiseshell. But see the ginger markings? And the tortie markings? It's clear, for all of that, that she's primarily a tabby.

And a cute one!! I think my favorite markings are the orange toes.




(Skittles is on the left)

[Cobalt Violet]

1. Wow. A torti-tabby.

I've never seen that.

[gaia_gardener]

2. She looks a lot like my cat

her brothers were orange tabbies. She's a little more brown than Skittles (her gray areas have a brownish tinge) but she has some orange stripes (especially on her face).

I love tabbies.

[Bertha Venation]

6. I love tabbies, too. They're my favorite.

:bounce:

[madrchsod]

3. thought skittles the kitten(?)

would have "michelob" markings...jeeze, i`m going to get my ass kicked for that

[ElsewheresDaughter]

4. spider cat!...see the spider markings on the top of his head?

[ikojo]

5. Sure is a cutie!

But I sense, Bertha V, that this is a gratuitous kitty thread....

THANK YOU!!!!


I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE DU kitty threads....

I wish I knew how to e mail pics from my phone to my e mail account so that DU could see my calico beauty!

[GingerSnaps]

7. The little guy on the right has an M on his forehead

Your going to have to give him a name that starts with an M :D

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. He's called Frank, so I say its full name is "Frankenstein's Monster" (nt)

[Bertha Venation]

9. He heh... he is a little monster, JC

He woke me in the middle of the night, biting on my toe through the blanket!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. He wants a bride

Time to go brain-shopping.

[Bertha Venation]

14. for some reason that made me think of "The Man With Two Brains"

I like-a you and you like-a me and we like-a both the same....

[GingerSnaps]

19. What happened to the little orange tabby?

Did you play that game that I posted for you?

BTW The Mama Cat must have been real picky because your babies are dolls. The way that the orange markings runs through her hair is unusual and I think that you are going to have a show winner. Can you imagine what she is going to look like when she is a full grown Cat? They are so chubby and healthy looking. :)

[Shakespeare]

17. The "M" is a standard tabby marking.

Mine's got one, too--you'll rarely see a tabby without the "M" on the forehead.

[Bertha Venation]

18. DIAL "M" FOR MEOW.

Heh.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

10. I think that's called an

orange patch tabby. I have a cat that's a darker colored tabby with orange patches just like that. I saw a cat at a cat show with the same markings and the lady said it was called an orange patch tabby.

Your kittens are vey cute!

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

12. On second thought, maybe she

said brown patch tabby. I can't remember exactly now. I think she said brown.

[Bertha Venation]

15. I'd never heard of "patch tabby." I like it that someone's named the

variation, though. I probably never heard of it because I try to avoid breeders and their conversations, literature, web sites.

But, uh, obviously, people who aren't breeders would know names of variations -- like you! :eyes: at self

I don't get to too many cat shows, either. What I know about cats I've learned by living with them.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

16. I don't know too much about it either

I got my cats from the shelter. They put on airs just as much as the show cats, so they know that all cats are members of royalty!

[GingerSnaps]

21. It's a good idea to stay away from Cat Shows

I had a conversation with a breeder one time about how many cats she owned. She had so many cat's that I can't remember the exact figure but it was over 20 and she said that they lived in cages.

Cages....cats don't like to be confined to a cage when they go to the vet let alone live 24/7 in a cage. We use to have 4 cats, 3 dogs and a bird and I felt like they didn't get enough attention so, how can 20 some odd kitties plus adult cats get enough attention especially when they are locked in cages. :grr:

[Philostopher]

11. Oddly enough, I never saw a cat marked like that ...

until two or three years ago, at the shelter. Right now, we have one in there who's just beautiful -- silver tabby with ginger patches. She has one of the prettiest coats I've ever seen, really thick and fluffy.

It is unusual, though -- of all the torties and calicos we get in there, I'd say maybe fewer than a quarter are tortie-tabbies. Most look like ginger tabbies with black on them, like both of mine.

I love the multi-colored toes -- both of mine have them, and their pads are also black and pink.

[yellowdogintexas]

20. those are so cute!!

and very interesting markings, too.

[Bertha Venation]

22. kicking because i have no new pictures and because everyone could

use a dose of kitten. :bounce:

[buckettgirl]

23. OMG! ARE YOU SURE THAT'S NOT MY CAT???

Seriously...my cat, Tilly, loooks just like that one. Exactly. Except her eyes are a different color!
That was weird...lol
What a pretty kitty! :)