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I always thought calicos and tortoise shells were practically the same thing. >.>

Edit: I did a research, the colours are indeed as you described.

However, what is my little girl here? She is not a tortoiseshell I'm sure, but she has stripes aswell.
I suppose I would call her a calico tabby, really.

Well the Wiki page says they are same well "tortoiseshell-and-white" and "Calico" are. Just different names for the same thing. Like bum and arse

Calicos.

Calico cats are domestic cats with a spotted or parti-colored coat, usually predominantly white with orange and black patches. Outside of North America the pattern is more usually called tortoiseshell-and-white.

Tortoiseshells.

Tortoiseshell describes a coat coloring found mostly in female cats. Cats of this color are mottled, with patches of orange or cream and chocolate, black or blue. They are sometimes called torties. A cat with this coloring, but also with the tabby pattern, is a torbie.
"Tortoiseshell" is typically reserved for cats with brindled coats with relatively few or no white markings.

I'm not saying you are wrong, though. And I am not trying to start a discussion, so hope I don't come off wrong here. Just providing what small facts I was able to find, mostly to sort out my own confusion. Both quotes from wiki.

I would appreciate it if you guys didn't get into a heated discussion.

I can delete my latest post if you wish, but creating a heated discussion was really not my intent.

I merely took advantage of the suckiness of wikipedia, to try and sort things out.
All in all, it just depends on where in the world you are. If Cowmu wishes to call it a tortoiseshell, she may do so, because that is what is normal to her, and that is entirely okay. I however choose to go by Xakaal and Wiki's explanation, because that is what seems right to me.

Either way, both colors are adorable.
I have a tortoiseshell cat, too. She is the black with orange/brown/white version of it.


Max looks adorable, I want to see more pictures! He really seems quite fluffy

Oh yes, as Finduilas said, gief more pics of Max! He is so cute

Haha I don't think eather of us where going into a heated discussion on it we where just saying both are correct names for it.

cowmuflage wrote:Haha I don't think eather of us where going into a heated discussion on it we where just saying both are correct names for it.

High five!

Miyon wrote:

cowmuflage wrote:Haha I don't think eather of us where going into a heated discussion on it we where just saying both are correct names for it.

High five!

Whoot! *highfives*

More pics! Here is Max playing with Mlio (gray kitty) and Darby (black and white kitty)!

Whatever color he is, he's really beautiful and so cute! (And Milo. Milo is d'awwww worthy.)
He looks like he's warming up to you.

How's his leg?

Daaaaaaaaaaaaw I adore the last pic, its so adorable xD milo is just lying there and darby n max are playing/lying

Naaw,they are so cute! And Milo is so huge

*squeecuddles kitties*

Miyon wrote:Naaw,they are so cute! And Milo is so huge

*squeecuddles kitties*

Yea Mlio is as big as my dog now, hes a strange breed of kitty. His fur is gray, his strips and spots are blue and his eyes are golden.

LupisDarkmoon wrote:Whatever color he is, he's really beautiful and so cute! (And Milo. Milo is d'awwww worthy.)
He looks like he's warming up to you.

How's his leg?

He can still move it a little but it looks like there is no movement in the bottom part. He can still run really fast though!

Qinni wrote:He can still run really fast though!

This makes me very happy to hear! I had a cat with impaired back legs and the poor thing had a hard time walking at all.

LupisDarkmoon wrote:

Qinni wrote:He can still run really fast though!

This makes me very happy to hear! I had a cat with impaired back legs and the poor thing had a hard time walking at all.

Make me very happy too!

I can't even catch him sometimes. Should have called him scooter!

D'aw, i didnt know (Mlio or Milo?) had an injured leg, im glad to hear that hes still active despite it :3

Max has the leg problem, but it sounds like he's quite capable even without much movement! Cats are awesome like that. Who needs two back legs? xD

OOooooh derp, still glad to know he can stll run around and be a normal cat though its so important at their age to be as normal as the naturally can for proper development -cuddles him and dangles a big hair scrunchie- my cat hates cat toys and adores hair ties, his favorite ones are the really thick and large scrunchies XD His markings are strange, almost like one parent was calico and the other was a brown tabby (or maybe past parents from one or both sides were)