Tortie cats

[kado]

Does anyone have a picture of a tortie coloured cat. The vet nurse said they were torties. I have been googling but cant find anything useful and i know this is the best place to ask. What is the charcteristic of a tortie, or could they be a calico colour. My friends ask me how there doing and i cant keep saying they look like mini rotteweillers. The kittens are so playful and roll around there bed and the largest cracker usual starts it off as well. There dad is ginger and ther grandma is a tortie

[borderdawn]

Mag's Cassie is a tortie (and white) Luke's "Clem" is a dark tortie. Tortie is short for "tortoiseshell"

[Mags]

As Dawn has said, Cassie is a tortie and white .........

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/Mags40/Cassie/DSCF0169.jpg

[Mags]

My daughter's cat is a dark tortie ........

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/Mags40/Mia/DSC07176.jpg

[angieh]

I may be wrong, but isn't "calico" the American term for "tortie"?

[borderdawn]

Yep, think so Angie.

[angieh]

Jane, here is a whole thread about tortie cats, with pictures!!!

http://www.catsey.com/showthread.php?t=24740&highlight=Tortie

[Mags]

I think you'll find calico is the US term for our tortie and whites, Angie....

[angieh]

ah yes, the white .......... like calico cloth.

[kado]

thanks ladies...

[dandysmom]

I may be wrong, but isn't "calico" the American term for "tortie"?

No, here "calico" is tortie and white, like Cassie, or Kuan Yin.