What Color Is Your Cat?
It is time to amaze and astound your friends with fun knowledge about cats colors. Go to a rescue or cat lovers house and blow everyone’s mind with your info! When cats have kittens they are all different colors. In fact, cat colors do not develop completely until they are over a year. Some even develop over the course of a lifetime. Another bit of trivia: Female cats can have many male mates. As many as the number of kittens they birth!
No one, not even scientists, can truly know what color a cat’s kittens will be until they are born. Cats only come in two colors: re and black. Everything else, with the exception of white, is a blend of those.
There is no way to truly predict what color a cat will be. Even breeders that are breeding for color do not know what will me out. Cat actually come in only three colors. Everything else is a variation of those three. They are black, white and red.
The official names used by The International Cat Association (TICA) for each color combination are as followed…
Official Color Commonly Called Red Orange, rust, marmalade, yellow, ginger Blue Gray, grey Chocolate Brown Seal Brown Silver Grey or gray Black Tortie & White Calico Cream Buff
In addition to the color combinations patters also reflect many traits in visibility…
Solid – Cats that are one color and do not have any stripes. Tabbies – Cats with stripes – called tabby markings. The tabby markings have four different patterns. Torties/Torbies – Usually females, these cats are a mixture of both black and red. They can be solids or tabbies. Pointed – Color is only seen on the face, feet, and tail. Those points can be solid or tabby. With Whites – Any of the above with white added.
Each cat is unique to its own variation of color and pattern. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and in this topic the beholder is the cat!
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