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The patron designates the patterns present on a cat’s dress. The pattern combines with the color to define the cat dress. A cat can thus be united, tiger, spotted, two -tone, etc. The cat dress is an important selection criterion for many cat breeds and is an important part of feline farm.

We distinguish in any eight patterns which can be more or less complex:

• solid : Papage us;
• tabby : striped or spotted coat;
• colourpoint : specific coloring on the end of the legs, tail and face;
• particolore : Two -tone or Colourpoint “Gité”, with more or less large white spots;
• tricolor : tortoise shell or calico : three basic colors mixed or not;
• mink And sepia : variations in nuances between the ColorPoint and the Solid.

Cats with a so -called dress solid , Self-colored or self are simply united in color. The entire coat presents the same color uniformly.

The cats tabby , more commonly known as tiger cats, have a dress made up of marbers, scratches or dark spots on a light background. The main colors of the “tiger”, close to the Sylvestre cat (the wild “original” cat), are a mixture of brown and beige, black, white and red. There are :

• The blotched tabby also named classic : large marbled bands forming circles on the sides.
• The mackerel tabby – The tiger cat: vertical stripes all over the body, like a tiger.
• The spotted tabby : round, speckled stains. The spots are very distinct, and do not meet.
• The ticked tabby Or tick: from slight stripes to the head, legs and tail, the rest of the body is uniform with agoutis hairs (that is to say having several colors on the length of one hair). The Abyssin is a good example of this last motif.

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  Two tabby side by side: ” blotched Tabby “a” spotted tabby »

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  Un Bengal « spotted tabby »

A dress colourpoint (or colorpoint (US)) designates a type of coat that carries dark colors confined in certain regions of the body: the mask of the face, the ears, the tail and the ends of the legs. All Colourpoint kittens are born white and will have blue eyes.

There are several types of colourpoint Depending on the color of the ends:

• and seal point will have brown ends;
• and blue point will have blue ends;
• and tabby point will have striped ends;
• etc.

Dresses colourpoint are characteristic of certain breeds, such as the Siamese.

The same dress with the tips of the white legs, called gloved, is a dress mitted , also considered as “particolor”. This is the case of the sacred of Burma ^{[ first ]} .

The “two -color” dress, also called “Particolor” or “with white variegation”, is a white dress associated with another color. The quantity of white can range from a simple marking on the toes in the case of a snapping at a few stains of colors drowned in the white on the head and the tail in the case of a bicolor van. A specific vocabulary makes it possible to define the distribution of color on the body ^{[ 2 ]} .

Depending on the proportion of white, the dress is called:

• by : only tail and ears of color;
• arlequin : a little more color;
• two -tone : Half-kneading in large proportion of the color.

To which we add, although it is not due to the action of the S- gene:

• mitted : “colourpoint” dress but with white “gloves” on the paws ^{[ first ]} .

The appearance of white hairs is coded by the major gene, of which we recognize two alleles. The action of this gene is during the migration of melanoblasts during the embryonic development of the kitten. The set of possible patterns probably make polygens into account and complicates the work of breeders who must obtain patterns clearly defined in the standards of cat breeds admitting the two -color dress ^{[ 3 ]} .

The popular two -color dress is very present in the comic strip and cartoon fields with representatives like the Sylvestre the cat of Titi et grosminet or tone of Tom and Jerry . Some writers described their two -color cats like Théophile Gautier. Among two -color cats are among others Oscar, which detects the imminent death of Rhode Island patients, and Socks, Bill Clinton’s cat ^{[ 4 ]} .

A cat Tortoise shell , or tortie (Abbreviation of English Tortoiseshell ), is an animal whose dress contains both red (or its diluted shape) and black (or its diluted shape, “blue”). The two colors can be distinct or closely intertwined.

When the dress has white spots, it is a cat Scattered and white . If the colors white, black and red come in the form of spots, it is a cat tricolor or calico . In Japan, where these cats are deemed to bring happiness, they are called ” mi-to This means “triple fur”.

A cat bag is characterized by a turtle scales dress (or calico), one of the colors of which is tabby .

In theory, turtle scales and tricolors are necessarily females. Indeed, this very special pigmentation results from the random inactivation of one of the two X chromosomes in the cells of the embryo, a few days after fertilization. However, the X chromosomes carry information conditioning the coloring. Each cellular line will form a different stain depending on the X chromosome which has been inactivated. The X inactivated X chromosome can be visualized under the microscope, it therefore forms the barr corpuscule at the cell nucleus.

A tricolor male or turtle scales has three sexual chromosomes (xxy) and is therefore reached by Klinefelter’s disease. It is generally sterile.

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  “Turtle Torte” cat

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  Chatte «Torbie» (Calico + Tabby)

These two patterns are between the solid and the colourpoint but they are however considered separate.

• Mink : The closest to the ColorPoint. The ends are dark as in the ColorPoint but the body slightly colored. The eyes are acute-brown in color, and can however go from yellow to almost blue. It is the typical Tonkinois dress.

• Sepia : closest to the solid. It also includes dark ends but with a sustained coloring of the body which makes little difference between the body and the extremities. It is the typical boss of the burmese.

Here too, as with the Colorpoint, kittens are born clear, even white before rushing and displaying their final dress.

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