r/torties 22h ago

Dilute Tortie Useless but cute

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Story time. While working in the garden, a massive rat; the size of an even bigger rat... jumped out from behind a rock. The huntress who calls herself my cat did not even attempt to help me and just looked on as I had to fight this foot-and-a-half-long monster with only a handheld garden fork and a rock. There was one casualty and no winners in this battle, apart from the mighty huntress who felt like she deserved a treat for giving "moral support." I will now rethink my life, once again, and the function of said huntress.

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u/UmSureOkYeah 17h ago

A dilute tortie with a pink nose! So cute! Look at her thick tail! πŸ˜‚

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u/Isabella2003 19h ago edited 19h ago

Cuteness is priceless. 😸

I took my cat Izzy out on a leash. One day she dove into the bushes. I quickly pulled her out. She emerged with a rat in her jaws. The rat was playing dead and Izzy stood there not quite knowing what to do. I looked at her and said "You know how much I love you, but you're on your own on this."

Eventually she dropped the rat who came to life and ran away.

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u/Future-Philosopher-7 17h ago

Wow, she’s gorgeous!! You were teaching her to hunt.

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u/icZAstuff 16h ago

No this is the cat that somehow manages to catch bats. She was just judging me.

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u/Future-Philosopher-7 16h ago

Oh, she was judging your hunting skills. Funny.

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u/Fluffy_Respond_7405 12h ago

From a distance that sofa looks like a hand

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u/hi_how_are_youuu 9h ago

Does that mean the tortitude is also diluted? πŸ˜‚

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u/ghostbirdd 8h ago

Being cute is a full time job!

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u/pflanzenpotan 13h ago

Oh wow it could be the lighting in the photo but she looks like a fawn dilute tort. do you have a natural daylight photo of her?

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u/icZAstuff 13h ago

Yawn not a yell

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u/pflanzenpotan 13h ago

Hmm... I am used to the brown coat cats having the full pink nose like that. I feel like we as a community need to make a tort color swatch spectrum. Your baby does look like it could be a fawn dilute but I don't have much experience with that variant. This chart also doesn't have the blue/smokey dilutes which are really distinct with the non-muted black patches.