![]() They tend to stay rather kittenish their entire lives. Oriental Shorthairs are very athletic and playful and love to play fetch. The eye color tends to be copper, yellow, and green. They come in a wide variety of patterns and colors, but they do sport a blue coat that can be a soft gray up to a deeper and darker slate blue-gray, in addition to blue found in a number of patterns (such as tabby, pointed, silver, and smoke). The Oriental Shorthair is quite striking in appearance with their slender bodies, large ears, and almond-shaped eyes. British Shorthair Image Credit: Blue-Heaven, Pixabay Is it time for a new cat bad? We love the Hepper M ushroom Cat Bed, a cozy novelty bed that's equal parts comfortable and fun to look at.Īt Pet Keen, we've admired Hepper for many years, and decided to take a controlling ownership interest so that we could benefit from the outstanding designs of this cool cat company!ĥ. The Korat is playful and loving and will make a wonderful family cat. This does make them very sweet lap cats, but they might become jealous when other pets have your attention. The downside of this is they don’t like to be left alone for long periods, and they need attention, or they will become depressed and withdrawn. These cats are very social and enjoy attention from people, particularly their family. Their eyes start off amber in color while young, but by two to four years of age, the eyes turn a beautiful green. They have short fur that is a lighter blue at the roots that turns darker along the shaft of the hair and ends with silver tips. One has long hair and looks very much like the marmalade pictured.The Korat originated in ancient Siam (known now as Thailand) and are playful, inquisitive cats that are very people-oriented. Two of the boys are black and white – no tabby markings – and the other two are orange tabby. I also have a young mommy (calico) and her 4 boys. Right now I have a very senior lady that has wide bands of orange and white, not like a tabby at all – but she has the M on her forehead that all tabbies have. I had a little girl that was a solid gray, but when the sun hit her fur, you could see some reddish stripes. His fur had the color banding on each individual hair. MY Thomas was a long-haired tabby, also a combination of grays, silver and tan. She was said to be a “bullseye” tabby, as she had stripes in big spirals on her sides. JJ was mostly a gray with silver and tan in her stripes. The Science Behind the Fur: What Makes Black Cats Black?.Cat Genetics: Facts on 6 Unusual Coat Colors and Patterns.7 Genes that Control Your Cat’s Fur Color.Siouxsie: If you want to learn some cool stuff about the genetics behind cat fur, check out these articles Mama wrote for Catster: Thomas: Almost every cat breed carries the tabby gene, even Siamese cats!īella: After looking at all these tabby cat pictures, what color tabby do you think Thomas is? Give us your guesses in the comments and tell us about the tabby cats you’ve known and loved. Again, this pattern isn’t common in regular cats, but Bengals, Savannahs and Ocicats have spotted tabby coats. Siouxsie: And the spotted tabby looks a lot like a wild cat. You don’t see this pattern much in regular domestic cats, but the Abyssinian is a great example of a ticked tabby. I see a lot more mackerel tabbies than blotched tabbies!īella: The ticked tabby has bands of stripes on each individual fur. I don’t know why they’re so classic and mackerel tabbies aren’t. Those cats are called classic or blotched tabbies. Thomas: Some tabbies have big, wide stripes that form round shapes on their sides. Siouxsie: Speaking of stripes, tabby cats with narrow stripes like Thomas are called mackerel tabbies or “tiger cats” back in New England where we came from. Thomas: Why? Are you embarrassed to have stripes? Are stripes embarrassing to you? *sniffle*īella: Oh, Thomas, of course not! I just like the idea of being a black cat, that’s all. In the bright sunlight, you can see Bella’s stripes. ![]()
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