2 PESOS: yeah yeah my kitty cat

[graywolf]

I know nothing --I actually thought "Tabby" mean female, as opposed to 
"Tom" until I read this thread. I then Googled it and got the 
information from here:

> http://www.penmarric.ns.ca/Pedigree/catbreeds/tabbycat.htm

Humm....? My dictionary does define "tabby cat" as meaning "a female 
domestic cat".

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Doug Franklin wrote:
> graywolf wrote:
> 
>> Had to look up that Silver Tabby stuff. Interesting. When did they start 
>> calling a tiger striped cat a mackerel tabby?
> 
> Hmmm.  I'm certainly no expert, but I always thought that the "Tabby"
> part described the tiger "strip-ed-ness" and the word before "Tabby"
> described the coloration.
> 
> So, the cat Ann posted, and one of my tabbies, are both "silver": light
> and dark gray stripes, sometimes with a hint of green hiding in there.
> My other "male", however, is a "Red Tabby" or "Orange Tabby".  His fur
> is striped in dark orange-brown and a light orange that's almost ginger.
> 
> I'm not sure exactly what coloration would be "mackerel".  My other two
> are "females", and they're "Tortoiseshell Calicos".  The Calico refers
> to the monotone patches of distinct colors (as opposed to stripes,
> etc.).  A "Tortoiseshell" calico has a lot of small patches and
> sprinkles all run together, usually with a dark base.  A "regular"
> calico (may have a more "correct" name), has larger, obvious and
> distinct patches.
> 
> And that's about the extent of my knowledge of cat coloration, excepting
> the "points" that Siamese and related breeds sometimes develop.
> 
> In general, it seems like cats have undergone less common "directed"
> breeding than dogs, at least among the general population.  There is the
> CFA (AKA for cats, pretty much) and shows and stuff, but that seems to
> be the minority of the cat population in my experience.  For example,
> except for a few breeds, most cats you run into on a daily basis just
> seem to be "alley cats" or "moggies" or "Heinz 57" or whatever (the
> result of cat-directed breeding rather than human-directed breeding).
> And there don't seem to be as many people looking for specific breeds
> ... most seem to just want a "kitty".
> 
>> So I guess there was 
>> something fishy about the gray alley cat* we had when I was a kid. Guess 
>> you have to be a cat enthusiast to know the names of all those different 
>> color combinations.
> 
> Well, up above I pretty much exhausted my knowledge of cat coloration. :-)
> 
> What was "fishy" about your alley cat?  What sort of coloration?
>