A Michael Broad Blog
This is another infographic which I hope summarises what is going on when a cat coat becomes pale and washed out. A lot of people like the appearance. All the grey cats are a washed out black. The most famous grey purebred cat is the British Blue. The Russian Blue is also a dilute black.
The blue-cream cat coat is a dilute version of the black-red cat coat which describes the tortoiseshell coat so the blue-cream coat is a dilute tortoiseshell. Blue is a dilute black. It is blue-grey. Grey cats are called ‘blue cats’ by the cat fancy as you probably know in recognition of the slight blue …
To fill out the question, it is asking if tortoiseshell cats can have some white fur in addition to the usual black plus orange tabby and the answer is yes but in the United States they refer to tortoiseshell cats with some white fur as ‘calico cats’. In the UK the cat fancy has …
Dilution refers to making a colour lighter as if mixing it with white. When black is made lighter is becomes a pale or slate grey. Sarah Hartwell refers to it as ‘blue dilution’. Grey is not blue but there is a slight bluish tinge to the grey cat coat. The cat fancy prefers to …
This is a case were ugly becomes pretty; pretty effective at becoming a celebrity and the owner taking vicarious pleasure from that celebrity. I am going to turn on its head the idea of ugly cat celebrity. “I’m OK with people saying that she’s weird looking because she is but I don’t like when …
About 0.033% of calico cats are male, we are told. I am not sure how accurate this figure is. Represented a different way it is one male calico cat for every 3000 female calico cats. In fact, as their existence is theoretically impossible there has to be a genetic anomaly for a male cat …
This is a hand-made, custom Valentine’s Day card for cat lovers. It is just something that kept me amused for an hour or so. Rarely, some cats have heart-shaped fur patterns. They are ideal for a Valentine Cat card. It is these sweet cats that gave me the idea. There is not much I …
A trademark Helmi Flick cat photograph of a cat whose name is Lance. I don’t know anything about this handsome cat except his name. I have decided that he is a random bred show cat with a dilute calico coat or, in English cat fancy language, a dilute tortoiseshell and white cat. You probably …
