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I love his beautiful red-orange color! I think they call that marmalade. Whatever - is gorg!
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Thanks everyone and keep them coming love the pictures of all the beautiful cats!!! Cats are just so awesome. At present I am feeding several cats that come by the house. They are all outdoor. When I get my new babies they will be indoor only (unless under supervision) because we have too many predators in these parts (bob cats, coyotes, etc). I would like to teach the kids to walk on a leash and I already have a kitty stroller (best thing ever for going out and about in the neighborhood and trips to the vet).
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Aw, what a sweet, content baby. Very lucky indeed. Thanks!
Kitty and doggie friends are so special. My childhood cat, Smokey, and our family dog, Brownie, (yeah, very creative names) used to play. Smokey would be stretched out on the lawn in the sun. Brownie would come up, gently take Smokey’s tail in her mouth and drag him across the lawn on his side. Smokey wouldn’t even raise his head, just let Brownie do it.
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How exactly did you get Cleo to wear that Santa hat? So cute!!
His coat was luxurious.
He was the sweetest cat ever.
Treating his diabetes/acro was really challenging, and moderately expensive. But I would have done it forever if I could have. But we reached a point it was no longer kind, and I had to let him go.
He was pts on 7/5. The next day my beagle Haillee screamed in pain going out for her walk, just three weeks after lymphoma diagnosis. So I drugged her up, gave her the best day ever, and put her to sleep that afternoon, on 7/6.
That night DH and I sat in our yards pet cemetery crying… And out of the woods came this tiny skinny, scrawny, dirty, starving, exhausted cat who looked like she had mange.
It was the neighbors cat who now lives with us, Ruby’s best friend, Lucy.
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Both I and Gramps adore my sick abandoned kitty I found on the streets. She was ready for an IV, hacking up an empty stomach w dirty puddle water in it. Very unusual creamy, brown striped legs and tail with blue eyes. A little research and she identifies as a Lynx Point Siamese. She is the cleanest quietest cat we’ve ever had. Sweet and mannered I’ve never seen her on a counter, just a LR window table. She is our first full time house cat (the rest go between the house and the barn/fields) she has zero survival skills why she was in the condition I found her. I named her Blue bc the eyes are stunning.
By contrast I do enjoy the man of the yard - Mr Ricky Bobby. He’s all hell on legs. Rip, roar, and run like hell. Big huge brown tiger tabby.
I do have to say that all the orange tabbies we’ve had have been the most loving. All the problem personality cats we’ve had have all been gray.
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I don’t have a favorite breed of cat. I like a certain personality- in your face and affectionate. The cat that is as devoted as a dog and follows you from room to room. The cat that wants to sleep on your bed and cuddle up next to you all night. I saw this artwork on facebook and it is such a good likeness of my cat who passed away. I would give credit to the artist but I have no idea who the original artist is.
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I had to take the picture really really fast. 
I try and dress her up for 1 PICTURE on Halloween and Christmas each year. She allows it for like 30 seconds and then she’s trying to rip it off.
Few more pictures cause I love showing her off:
This is a side by side of her when I first got her and when she was an adult
Another Christmas sweater
And her “costume” one year.
Yes, I am one of those people
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I like the chubby cheeks of British Shorthairs, but all of mine have either come from the shelter or foundlings.
I’m partial to marble brown tabbies but I haven’t met a cat yet that isn’t beautiful in their own way. 
Snickers and Sammy
Sammy
Jellybean
Snickers
I don’t have any of Thomas or Sunny on this phone.
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How about a video:
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I’ve had multiples & never saw this kind of kneading
This is Bounce (gray tuxedo) & Cheeto.
5yrs ago they came from a shelter to replace my barncat of 10yrs: Indy
8# of Terminator & Laprobe
So named as she & orange brother Day strolled up my rural driveway on 4th of July night, around 6wks old.
Sadly he became roadkill at 6mos.
I stoopidly relocated B&C to my basement from their large cages in my barn after I saw a raccoon threatening them 
5yrs later they moved upstairs from my basement & told me they have zero interest in going outside. Ever. 
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Technically it’s a red tabby, probably classic, but maybe a mackerel.
Tabbies come in 3 colors and two types, red, brown and silver. Brown is the one everyone thinks of as a “tabby”. They can have white marking and even be mostly white (aka high white). Also the secondary color (lighter color) can be maximally expressed which makes them very striking looking. It goes without saying that show breeders love it when that happens. And just for giggles you can get some tortie undertones although not so often.
Within tabbies they can be classic or mackerel in pattern. Classic has the indeterminate swirly pattern on the side while mackerel almost has a striped appearance. Fun fact, classic is generally dominant in the US cat population, mackerel is dominant in the UK (cat cats, not breeds). Both types have the classic tabby M between their ears.
The picture has two classics and a mackerel. The mackerel is the one who is the most unhappy at this moment.
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oh she is so gorgeous! that soft white tummy just begs for kisses
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One of my favorite children’s books was Millions of Cats and I’m happily living my multiple cat-owning fantasy!
Growing up we lucked into owning 2 long-haired Tuxedo boys. One was born in our friend’s barn, the other found in our yard during a MN blizzard. Both were total mutts and both were my childhood besties.
I always thought I would stay on the tuxie train, but the next cat who chose me was a shorted haired white farm kitten. I never ever thought I would have an all-white cat, but Artie was special.
Since then I’ve had 2 bi-colors and my sweet little princess is a Torbie
Its the personality for me. I love a big personality and they HAVE to be snuggly. Chatty cats are great and the more personable the better. I’m sold on the low maintenance of the run of the mill domestic shorthair, and I guess I prefer a pointy snout as opposed to a board or smooshed face.
With my work in rescue and TnR, I will never pay for a purebred. I don’t judge people who do, but there are so many homeless kitties who need a soft place that I will reserve the space my home for them.
I will say that the tortishell pattern never really appealed to me, but Gemma’s momma (a feral in the colony I manage) is a gorgeous dilute tortie 
so I have a soft spot for that.
CoTH has taught me that “Meezers” are siamese kitties! I’ve never heard that term, but I love it.
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Thank you. I think she is so beautiful, if I do say so myself.
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Thank you! I’m always trying to figure out coat colors and patterns.
Maybe you can help: I have a cream tabby and he has this interesting patternation in his coat. It looks like his hair has been crimped at one time - of course it hasn’t, it’s perfectly straight but the hairs look like they have bars on them. I’ve never seen that on a cat. It’s interesting. And of course he won’t hold still for any picture…the dope.
@BatCoach - is that little Jessie all grown up? She is beautiful!
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sure is! when we officially adopted her re-named her Gemma - it suited her sassy but lady-like personality.
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Tabby is about the beginning and end of my hair color knowledge, but if the individual hair itself has more than one color along the length of the shaft, that is the effect that creates “ticking” like you see in Abbysinians, so it might be a ticked tabby… I have a vague memory of something like this in one of the few color variations, along with points, that is not accepted in Maine coons. Out I could be completely not remembering it correctly at all lol! I assume a cream tabby is just on the scale of reds that can happen…
