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    What is the name given to a cat of a certain colour pattern which inevitably includes black, white, and ginger, which can only really be given to a female cat due to a genetic pattern?

    Question #65675. Asked by Flynn_17.

    roroco

    calico

    May 13 06, 5:59 PM
    lanfranco

    In the U.S., we do call a cat with this coloring a "calico," but in the U.K., the term is apparently "tortoiseshell and white." Over 90% of such cats are female.

    My own and much-lamented Iolanthe, who lived to be 18, was a calico cat:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_cat

    May 13 06, 6:06 PM
    Sabine06

    ...or 'tortoiseshell and white'.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoiseshell_cat

    May 13 06, 6:11 PM
    Sabine06

    Oops...that was a very slow snap.

    May 13 06, 6:12 PM
    Baloo55th

    Can be called calico in the UK. I had one.

    May 14 06, 6:25 AM

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