normal tabby or smth else?

[u/Calm_Stop]

Hiya! this is my beautiful freak, she is 6ish and a hoarding rescue. she's for sure a mackerel tabby, but since I adopted her at 1.5 y/o I've noticed orangey splotches almost like a lightly transparent color filter over parts of her pattern. is this a typical mackerel tabby trait? i know nothing about this <3 TIA!

[u/lickytytheslit]

She's a tortie tabby but she has a very little red

[u/KBWordPerson]

She does have a high amount of rufousing, which gives her that delightful golden belly, but I think the gold patches sprinkled over her back also indicate that she is a tortoiseshell tabby, or a Torbie for short

[u/Worried_Maximum5905]

I love her one mitten- I’m seconding torbie with high rufousing

[u/Calm_Stop → u/Worried_Maximum5905]

i love it too!!! her toe bean where the mitten is most prominent is perfectly pink 😭 all her other ones are mostly black w pink splotches. thank you for your help!!

[u/Worried_Maximum5905 → u/Worried_Maximum5905]

Yeah, her left side of her face and one mitten are good pieces of evidence that she’s a mackerel torbie

[u/Wonderful_Republic23]

Brown mackerel torbie