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Alafiasky Stewie Griffin

🐱 Devon Rex

📸 Larry Johnson [Alafia Sky Devon Rex]

🎨 Seal Point Bicolor

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🐱 Cherubim [Cherubim Ragdoll LCWW]

📸 Deep Blue

🎨 Black, Cinnamon, Fawn

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Hello! Found your blog a while back and immediately thought you might be able to help with something I've been wondering for a really long time! This is my late cat Spider, who was born a streetcat as far as I was aware. He lived to 20 and died over quarantine. My best guess is that he's a tortie/calico, but since he's a male cat, I am not confident on that. I've selected the photos I deemed to be the most helpful in determining his coat pattern, but the quality and lighting are not the best because of how old they are.

Spider is an awesome name and he looks like a lovely cat, you must have taken very good care of him to make it to 20 years!

He’s a black classic tabby Domestic Longhair.

It’s pretty common to mistake these guys for a “male tortoiseshell/calico.” The very warm-toned brown you see around his muzzle - and presumably parts of his limbs and belly - that almost look reddish is due to something called rufousing.

I talk a little about what that is and what it looks like here.

Although this is present in all tabby cats to varying degrees the very thick, often more sharply defined, stripes on the classic tabby can give the impression of block of colors and the contrast against the jet black can really make the warm-hues “pop” giving a tortoieshell/calico vibe if you don’t know what you’re looking at.

Here’s a black classic tabby and white Maine Coon with some strong areas of rufousing.

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Gemquest Domino Effect [Pedigree]

🐱 Persian

📸 Larry Johnson [Gemquest Persians]

🎨 Black Bicolor

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Artemide Iuxta Fontem [Pedigree]

🐱 Maine Coon

📸 Philippe Manceau [Iuxta Fontem]

🎨 Red Silver Classic Tabby

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Hi! I have a lovely little void cat that seems like he might be part Bombay? But I got him from a shelter and he doesn’t seem to have the same flatter face shape. His eye color is the main reason I’m even asking bc it’s an orangey yellow and not a greenish yellow.

He’s a stunningly handsome black self Domestic Shorthair, not likely to have any breed heritage.

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Random-bred cats can have eyes in a wide range of colors, including the more gold-orange seen in your guy. At work we have a regular patient whose a little black DSH with brilliant orange-gold eyes that we say looks like a Halloween cat!

Additionally this eye color can occur in other purebreds aside from the Bombay cats, such as the British Shorthair.

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🐱 Suffolk

📸 Mandy Smith, Vikki Manning

🎨 Cinnamon, Fawn

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Vee D-Master Mona Lisa [Pedigree]

🐱 Exotic Shorthair

📸 Frunk [Vee D-Master Cattery]

🎨 Black Classic Tabby

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Black Tabby Van, Domestic Giggler Shorthair

Hehe :)

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Black tortoiseshell bicolor Domestic Shorthair (+hat)

skittles update is i got her a hat

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BeFurry Ink

🐱 Bengal

📸 BeFurry Bengal Cattery

🎨 Black Silver Marbled “Midnight” Charcoal [Charcoal Variations]

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🐱 Mohave Bob [Mohave Bob REFR] [Short Tails][Manx Syndrome]

📸 Chatterie Douces Folies

🎨 Black Spotted Tortoiseshell Tabby

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My cats are all simple silly little street cats as far as I know. But this account sounds super fun and I have SO MANY CATS RN

Feel free to respond in dms or however is most convenient!

The trio and mama are strays ive recently taken in. Dad unknown obviously lol. They might be adopted out and it would be nice to have smth other than "grey and white and brown tabbys" to jot down.

And the second is the fluffiest cat ive ever owned. Hes the only kitten from his litter with that coat pattern color or length. The rest were all brown and stripy. He looked like a crinkled tissue till he was like four months old XD.

I’m glad you’re enjoying the blog!

Mom is a blue mackerel tabby with white, one kitten is also a blue mackerel tabby with white. The other two kittens are both black mackerel tabby and white, one I’d describe as bicolor and the other harlequin based on the amount of white they have on them.

They’re all Domestic Shorthairs.

When adopting them out I’d probably describe them as “Gray Tabby and White,” “Brown Tabby and White,” and “White with Brown Tabby” because that’s using more casual language and is more similar to what is likely to wind up on their vet paperwork.

The appropriate/specific terminology could be given out as an additional fun fact to adopters!

There are a lot of possible combinations for the father but, assuming they all have the same sire, I can tell you he has white on him and is not dilute. My guess would be a tabby and white or a tuxedo, if you’ve seen either of those hanging around.

The last one is a red and white harlequin Domestic Longhair, I can’t see enough tabby markings to get a solid feel for what type - namely spotted vs mackerel. He may or may not be genetically agouti/tabby, even solid red cats will display tabby markings.

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Edner Defne

🐱 British Shorthair

📸 Elena Rabetskaya [Edner Cattery]

🎨 Blue Ticked Tabby

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BeFurry Royal Onyx

🐱 F1 Serengeti (Bengal x Oriental Shorthair) [Serengeti TICA]

📸 Vakulenko Yuliya [BeFurry Bengal Cattery]

🎨 Black Silver Classic Charcoal

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🐱 Bengal

📸 Michelle Farnsworth [Cosmic Bengal]

🎨 Red Silver Rosetted Tabby

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Don Juan Sudela

🐱 British Longhair

📸 Dreamland Cattery

🎨 Lilac Golden Shell