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- From: dan@msen.com (Dan Sugalski)
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- Subject: Re: Two Siamese Cats Free to a Good Home
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- Date: 9 Jan 1993 04:34:54 GMT
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- : Well, the funny thing is that after seeing over 5000 cats in my life (I worked
- : in a vet clinic for several years), I've never seen a two colour cat that had
- : orange and something other than white as it's secondary colour. Ie, I've never
- : seen an orange and black cat only, or an orange and grey, as mentioned here. I
- : do notice that many people misdescribe the colours of their cats. I recently
- : adopted a black tabby (tabby, with black being the predominant colour), but
- : before I saw her, I was told that she was calico (a tri-coloured cat, mixing
- : white, orange and black or grey). And the person who told me she was calico
- : was another vet tech!
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- You've never seen a tortiseshell cat? In some areas, calicos are called
- tortiseshell and white. Torties don't have white, just the red and black
- (or the dilute versions thereof) and may be solid or tabby.
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- On your tabby, brown tabbies have black markings over a greyish-brown
- base. Often these cats have red in the undercoat, causing those who don't
- know cat colors to think that they are calico.
- I've found that most vet techs (and vets for that matter) don't know much
- about animal colors. Out of 7 cats I've had, only one was consistently
- listed under the correct color, and she was a tortie. My others are/have
- been a blue tabby, a brown tabby and the rest ruddy or brown ticked. The
- two tabbies tend to be listed as grey tigers (both have broken
- stripes/spots and heavy ticking) and unless someone has seen an Abyssinian,
- I am asked what color the others are. We go through the same thing with
- my parents husky cross, who is usually listed as black and tan but is actually
- sable and cream. I always have to insist that my grey horses markings are
- filled out on his health papers, too.
-
- I suppose I wouldn't care, but I travel around the US and through Canada
- with these animals, so I prefer that the health papers match the animal in
- question. At least my 2 home dogs are easy-black and tan.:)
-
- Karen
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