Brown Tabby Cat Colors
Calico cats have three colors.
Brown tabby cat colors. Darker spots stripes or whorls on a lighter brown background. I have 9 cats all together lol theyre all rescues but only 4 are tabbies. Many american shorthair cats demonstrate this pattern. The term calico much like tabby refers to a pattern of colors rather than a breed.
The homozygous recessive genotype when combined with the agouti gene iia produces tabby coloration which can vary along a spectrum ranging from a deeply patterned brown tabby to a lighter golden tabby to the very lightly colored shaded or chinchilla golden colors. Orange cats with the inhibitor gene i o are commonly called cameo. The tabby pattern occurs in twelve colours which are black based or red based and their dilutes and dilute modifiers which change the shape of the melanin granules or make them clump together. The spots can be solid.
Brown hazel gold green blue compiled by dr. A tabby is any domestic cat felis catus with a distinctive m shaped marking on its forehead stripes by its eyes and across its cheeks along its back and around its legs and tail and differing by tabby type characteristic striped dotted lined flecked banded or swirled patterns on the body neck shoulders sides flanks chest and abdomen. Black stripes ranging from coal black to brownish on a background of. This is by far the most common pattern so much so that some people think it should have received the title classic.
Tabby coat markings tabby coat colors distinct color patterns with one color predominating. Spots that have a dark outline with a lighter color in the center are called rosettes. Cat identification solid coat colors eye coloration black pictured or blue with white roots. If a cat has three colors and the distinctive tabby forehead marking they re a calico tabby.
Tabby occurs in several colours the most common are brown tabby silver and orange tabby. Brown patched brown torbie or brown tabby cat the background color is a coppery brown whilst the tabby pattern is black with patches of red. I have 4 tabby cats first theres theodore a ginger mackerel tabby then cheshire a silver mackerel tabby lillian a buff and white marble tabby and minnie a brown tabby not sure what pattern she has but i posted a picture of her i love her stripes. This pattern usually has whorls ending in a target on the side of the cat.
Within their calico spots they may have tabby stripes. Bengals have a brown color and variation of the spotted pattern that is not seen in other cats. White orange and black. Types of tabby patterns.
The cat pictured in this chart has a very high color contrast which shows his whorls clearly. The spots occur in a random pattern and vary in size.