quantum_jellyroll: Debby7813: quantum_jellyroll: Here's a short, interesting cat video...

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QJ, you are incorrigible!

OK, how about this (new window) one?

Love it!

One more quick genetics tidbit:

A two color girl can be a SOLID two color girl where the colors are sprinkled throughout her coat. She is a TORTOISESHELL.

A two color girl can be a TABBY two color girl where the colors are sprinkled throughout her coat AND STRIPED (Mackeral) or SWIRLED (Classic). She is a TORTOISESHELL TABBY... often called a TORBIE (condensation of TORTIE-TABBY).

A two color girl can be a SOLID two color girl WITH WHITE, where the "with white" gene forces the red and black colors to stayed corraled together, thus giving clean red and black spots. She is a CALICO.

A two color girl can be a TABBY two color girl WITH WHITE, where the "with white" gene forces the red and black colors to stayed corraled together, and the tabby pattern stripes or swirls the color within the red and black patches. She is a PATCHED TABBY.

If you add the dilute gene to this recipe, you get:
Dilute tortoiseshell AKA blue tortie
Dilute blue tortie tabby AKA blue torbie
Dilute Calico (I have one!)
Blue Patched tabby

Quiz next week... bring #2 pencil.

DZ

DesertZephyr: oddmind: DesertZephyr: There are two color genes - RED and BLACK. WHITE is NOT a color but a gene that REMOVES color.

I bow to your mastery over cat genetics!

And I curtsey in return...10 years breeding Maine Coons gave me a pretty solid footing in traditonal cat color genetics...the mega recessives still mess with me...to have a lllac pointed Himalayan, you need FIVE sets of reinforced recessive genes:
Longhair, Point, Solid, Black, and Lilac...

I've seen pics of cats on here that are genetic marvels without their owners knowing it... is pretty cool when Mother Natures gets out her BIG box of crayons!!!

Oh I love the genetic marvels, the more unusual the better. What I've always wanted to find is a blue eyed black cat. Never seen one in real life.

I also love Maine Coon cats, I have a Maine Coon mix now who's a huge goofy boy, at the age of five still thinks he's a kitten.

2wolves: lajimi

I believe that is an oak leaf.

Yeah, I knew it wasn't a maple leaf. It was the first thing that jumped into my head.

myrla_cat: do we allow squirrel pictures for caturday? our backyard one was being adorable today...

DesertZephyr: One more quick genetics tidbit:

A two color girl can be a SOLID two color girl where the colors are sprinkled throughout her coat. She is a TORTOISESHELL.

A two color girl can be a TABBY two color girl where the colors are sprinkled throughout her coat AND STRIPED (Mackeral) or SWIRLED (Classic). She is a TORTOISESHELL TABBY... often called a TORBIE (condensation of TORTIE-TABBY).

A two color girl can be a SOLID two color girl WITH WHITE, where the "with white" gene forces the red and black colors to stayed corraled together, thus giving clean red and black spots. She is a CALICO.

A two color girl can be a TABBY two color girl WITH WHITE, where the "with white" gene forces the red and black colors to stayed corraled together, and the tabby pattern stripes or swirls the color within the red and black patches. She is a PATCHED TABBY.

If you add the dilute gene to this recipe, you get:
Dilute tortoiseshell AKA blue tortie
Dilute blue tortie tabby AKA blue torbie
Dilute Calico (I have one!)
Blue Patched tabby

Quiz next week... bring #2 pencil.

DZ

You forgot blue/cream!

Torties have always been my favs. I've had a variety of torties and torbies of unusual coloration. I had a beautiful red tortie Persian when I was younger and a smoke tortie that was mostly black. Now we have a orange torbie and white, black tortie with a few splotches of orange, a dilute tortie, a blue/cream polydactl, two medium hair tortie kittens. We have a "silver classic torbie" with white too.

Most people I run into think the torties are calicos.

What color would you say this one is?

Abra

leftteffticle: hi everyone! so happy i had some lols and fuzzies to look at while at work, it's been a day.
sherpa...*shakes head* congrats *cough*slut*cough*

domari:
You forgot blue/cream! What color would you say this one is?



I call the blue/creams blue tortiea...like in the toroiseshell, the red(cream) color is implied.

Your girls is a cutie, that's what I call her!!

She is a brown(black) patched tabby with white. Even though the white is low it still forced her brown (black) and red patches to "congeal" as opposed to having the two color sprinkled together.

My dilute calico girl is called "Bug", as in "Cute as a...." Her registered name is TabbyTown's Firefly. What else would you expect from a Sci-Fi geekette mom??

This is how someone on ICHC tried to describe Lucy's coloring.

/I always thought she was Calico because of the white, but now I'm not sure.
//Actually I thought the picture was amazing because she had managed to get her 'pleasingly plump' butt on top of my kitchen cupboards

Lucy is also a patched tabby and white also...like I said, Mother Nature's crayon box produses interesting things.

4 kittens
3 orange and white
1 calico

4 kittens
1 black
1 gray
1 calico
1 gray tabby

quantum_jellyroll: Here's a short, interesting cat video...

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Snort, snicker, hehheh. Been there!

DesertZephyr: Lucy is also a patched tabby and white also...like I said, Mother Nature's crayon box produses interesting things.

I'd say Lucy is a torbie and white. The black is mixed with orange, then there are the stripes too.

DesertZephyr: I've seen pics of cats on here that are genetic marvels without their owners knowing it... is pretty cool when Mother Natures gets out her BIG box of crayons!!!

You mean like Rigby, shown her with her ordinary grey/white littermate? I confess that I didn't know what she was when I picked her. The rest of the litter was solid grey. I picked her brother because of his cute toes, and her because she was "different." It took me months to figure out that she was Lilac. I'd heard of it, but never seen it, and thought it only came as "Lilac Point."



And here, in Diva pose


And what would you say about Valerie, who has: Siamese pattern in a dark color Point, and flecks of many colors and shades, both dilute and non-dilute. From what I have read, she could be a chimera.

Here's the short list:
4--Cosmic Troublemaker, Desert Zepher, lucky eddie, sllink1, predle
5--Sherpa, Bessy, Myria, Spinnyr, slightly damaged, valnt9, jaynleng
6--mousiebelle, oddmind, akimbotoo
7--strauuman
8--spinach gunk


Cosmic Troublemaker
4
1 white
1 B&W
1 Orange & white
1 brownish orange mix

Oddmind
6
1Orange tabby
1orange &white
1 solid black
1 Brown Tabby
2 tri-color

Spinach Gunk
8
3 orange tabby
3 tortie & white
1 solid black
1 black with white paws

mousiebelle
6
2 white
1 orange & white
1 orange
1 tricolor with lots of white like mom
1 tricolor with less white

Strauuman
7
3 Tortie
3 Orange
1 Black

Sherpa18
5
1 white
2 orange and white
1 orange tabby
1 tortie

Bessyglass
5
1 black & white tuxedo
2 grey & white tuxedo
1 muted calico
1 white with black spots

myria_cat
5
2 calico
1 orange tabbeh
1 grey
1 black and white

Akimbotoo
6
3 Orange & white
2 Calico
1 Black & white

Spinnyr
5
2 mostly white
2 tortie
1 marmalade

Slightly Damaged
5
1grey and white tux
1gray tabby
1mostly white with grey tabby markings
1orange tabby
1blackish tortie

DesertZephyr:
4
ALL are red tabby with lots of white.

Lucky Eddie
2 orange
1 black and white
1 basement

valnt9
5
1 orange/white
1 black/white
1 torti
1 orange
1 black

jaynleng
5
1 orange/white
1 black/white
1 torti
1 orange
1 black

sllink1
4
3 orange and white
1 calico

predle
4
1 black
1 gray
1 calico
1 gray tabby

please take me home, please

1 Pogo.(American shorthair evil)

Spinnyr: One of my first captions. I stared at the coloring for quite a long time. Odd in a beautiful way. Beautiful in an odd way.

That's my big "brave" girl, all 15 lbs. of her smacking a 1 lb. kitten, who she was scared to death of. Lucy ran and hid immediately after I took that picture.


/Maurice, the little guy on the right is the one she was so scared of.

predle: This is how someone on ICHC tried to describe Lucy's coloring.

/I always thought she was Calico because of the white, but now I'm not sure.
//Actually I thought the picture was amazing because she had managed to get her 'pleasingly plump' butt on top of my kitchen cupboards

A week or two ago I was scrolling through Caturday when my husband caught a glimpse of Lucy and said "Whoa! What kind of cat is THAT?" After having a good look at her photo, he concluded that she looks like "three cats in one".

I love your Lucy. Her coloring (and personality, it sounds like, lol) reminds me of one of my childhood kitties, Tillie the Terrible Tortie (shown here being extremely tolerant):

Spinnyr-

That is the cutest description of a hot flash I have ever seen! Too bad they're not that cute in real life! Plus, no one warned me how long they last!

FiamettaKittehPettah: Happy Caturday! Special thanks to Spinach Gunk, Lar Jorgen and QJ for cleaning up my new kid's pic last week. New Kid is a girl, her official name is Ollie O (O is for my government last name) but if you ask jaynleng, her name is Corm. She passed her FIV/leukemia test. The vet found 5 ticks on her and she had worms. Once the worms are cleared up, she will meet her big brother and big sister. I anticipate a lot of hissing. I have some new pics to upload. Catching up on the thread now.

I'll leave this in the meantime. Mr. Fia and I found them when we were weeding our garden.



Awwwwww! Baby bunnies! Awwwwww!

So as it turns out, I have to be away from a computer ALL DAY tomorrow, and so will not be able to compile the voting tomorrow morning. I need to log off around 7AM PDT. Is there anyone who can fill in after that? Sorry to flake out...I had visualized that we'd be done by now, but as Cretinbob so generously observed, not everyone has access to the thread so early.

Anybody have a secret desire to be a bookie?

What Cretinbob's momcat might look like in a few weeks...

CooperDaKat:
Congratz again, sherpa!!

Thanx. I was afraid for a minute that I would not be back in time for Caturday as my network just suddenly declared mutiny and all the boxes started fighting for IP addresses.

*Sigh* Dragon knows just how I feel...

jaynleng: Attenion Caturday! During the course of this weekend we shall celebrate the birfday of things_ I_do_to_my_cats
may we have many hippo birdies......

And another version for a fellow Boynton aficionado:

And best wishes to tidtmc for a very

oddmind: You mean like Rigby, shown her with her ordinary grey/white littermate? It took me months to figure out that she was Lilac. I'd heard of it, but never seen it, and thought it only came as "Lilac Point."

And here, in Diva pose

And what would you say about Valerie, who has: Siamese pattern in a dark color Point, and flecks of many colors and shades, both dilute and non-dilute. From what I have read, she could be a chimera.

Rugby's the one I was referring to!! I spotted her in a flash!

I can't see that Valerie's truly pointed. Her face and what I can see of her body are pretty uniform in color... tho I can see some lighter color patching on one side of her face.... like she's a blue/cream/lilac combo thingy..

HAPPY BIRD-DAY tidtmc!!!!



Maybe I'm a bad kitteh mom, but I just figured Lars was a common barn kitteh. Lucy I wasn't sure of. I have no clue what breeds they are, but they both have neat coloring and goofy personalities :) Oh, as an update, Lucy's tummy has been fine since last week, so it must have been just a tummy bug.

This is the best pic I have right now to show Lar's interesting stripes - there's the sideways ones and then the black skunk stripe down his back. His "solid" fur is a mix of colors when you get him in better lighting. Does that make him a specific type of tabby?



Here's a close-up of Lucy's ear tufts:



Until you get her under good lighting, she looks like a typical long-haired grey & white fuzzy... but when you get her under a light, you can see that each strand of fuzz is banded (like my fur! In humans it's apparently very rare. Not sure about in kittehs. I know there's a name for the condition/genetics related to it, but can't find it. I first heard about others having it when watching Forensic Files a few years ago...) Anyway... any help with my cats' genetics? Thanks!!

Lars is a mackeral tabby...and the spine stripe is part of that pattern.

Anybody have a cat with a "butterfly" pattern across it's shoulder girdle? That's characteristic of the classic tabby.

When the individual hairs are banded, that the ticked tabby pattern rearing it's head... she may be carrying a single copy of the gene as a recessive.

DesertZephyr: Anybody have a cat with a "butterfly" pattern across it's shoulder girdle? That's characteristic of the classic tabby.

When the individual hairs are banded, that the ticked tabby pattern rearing it's head... she may be carrying a single copy of the gene as a recessive.

Nope, just black with a white little patch and a few gray.

She just turned 11.

Thanks DZ! It's fun to know more about my critters. I have to go back up and read about how common that pattern is for Lars. The future Mr. thinks Lucy and I get along well because we both have the banded hair look going on :) Our Lucy doesn't like many people, including his daughter. She'll tolerate other people, but she seems to actually LIKE me for some reason.



Then again, maybe she's using me for my fabric and quilts.......

things I do to my cats...: NEW!

video from in2it - "Wierd cat moaning" fla25E.flv

Caturday mewvies at glamazon.com (new window)

enjoy!

Can't play it :-(