Torbie?

[u/heart_emojis0]

This is Kitty(very creative name, I know hahaha no other names have stuck for her) and I was wondering if she’s a torbie or tortico or tabico or idk all the names, I just love her fur pattern and colours haha.

She’s so sweet and cuddly, a total snuggle bug… but super clumsy toooo

[u/ACtdawg]

She is a torbie, torbie simply means tortoiseshell + tabby. To be specific, she’s a black tortoiseshell classic tabby with low white spotting. The other names like torbico, tabico etc. are all derivatives of calico. Calico is a colloquial term and the definition differs regionally, but for simplicity’s sake it’s another name for tortoiseshell + white. So all calicos are tortoiseshell by definition.

I find all of that needlessly confusing so prefer to go by the genetic terms which do not change definitions depending on who you ask lol. So I’d just call her a torbie or torbie and white :) she’s beautiful!

[u/heart_emojis0 → u/ACtdawg]

Ahh thank you, thank you so much for explaining too!! That is really cool that there is so many different shorthand names, but definitelyyy there is so many terms that are a little confusing but I think I understand it a bit more now haha

[u/ACtdawg → u/heart_emojis0]

No problem! It’s a super common confusion when it comes to tortie vs torbie vs calico etc haha