# Favorite cat colors **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 23, 2009, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303 "2009-09-23T22:54:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/21 "2009-09-24T02:44:21Z")
[bengal + marble bengal](http://images.google.com/images?q=bengal+cat) ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/22 "2009-09-24T02:54:14Z")
I like all the different colors, but I have a partiality to the buff tabby boys, like [Maceo](http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b7/rubystreak/MaceoisFuffa.jpg). Certainly it’s inarguable that he is amazingly handsome and his color is unique, sort of a faded orange color. I’ve had 3 guys this color and they are all so handsome. When it comes to who’s nicest, usually it’s the black and whites. I’ve had 3 of those as well and they are always sweethearts. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/23 "2009-09-24T02:54:39Z")
My seal-point Himalayan is the most stunning animal in all of creation, in addition to having the best disposition of any cat ever born. I don’t have a picture, but google images of Himalayan cats and the dark brown one - that’s my Marco! He’s actually two cats in one - his summer coat is shorter and lighter, and right now he’s starting to grow his winter coat. He will poof up and gain 2 pounds until spring, when he’ll start shedding the winter growth. It’s a lot of work for both of us. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/24 "2009-09-24T03:43:30Z")
We have one gray/white cat and two Tuxedos. If/when we acquire more they will be Tuxedos. But I also like Basement Cats. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/25 "2009-09-24T03:49:12Z")
> [@sweetie pea](#): > > Somewhat related: I have a cat who would be a tuxedo cat, except she is grey and white. I keep thinking there should be a name for that, but I don’t know my formal wear very well. [Morning dress](http://www.blacktieguide.com/Supplemental/Other_Formalwear/Morning_Dress/LondonLounge.jpg), perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/26 "2009-09-24T03:59:47Z")
All our cats have been rescues so we never considered colors but another vote for Abyssinians. ---
**Author:** ![luv2draw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@luv2draw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luv2draw)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/27 "2009-09-24T04:03:08Z")
I like invisible cats. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/28 "2009-09-24T04:16:32Z")
Torties can be kind of dirty-looking. (Sorry!) I like all the others. It’s an unofficial requirement that all ours be very different colors. We have an orange tabby, a brown tabby, and a tuxedo. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/29 "2009-09-24T07:13:59Z")
> [@](#): > > It’s an unofficial requirement that all ours be very different colors. This guarantees that any upholstery or garment will have at least SOME cat hair plainly visible on it, thus marking you as a cat owner. Or owned by cats. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/30 "2009-09-24T07:50:11Z")
3 favorite colors: One of my cats is solid black, with very expressive blue-green eyes. And the other is a tabby with leopard spots on her sides and a big raccoon-like tail. My last cat, that live to 20 years, was solid gray. Really beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/31 "2009-09-24T08:10:09Z")
I have a tuxedo cat and a spotted tabby. They are my favorites! As for colors of cats I don’t own, I like the marbled-looking ones. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/32 "2009-09-24T09:19:09Z")
My little cat [George](http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/1999/georgewr.jpg) is a “tuxedo” cat. He has a nearly perfect tuxedo pattern; white front, tapered, white belly and white paws. Sorry about the weak-dick phone-camera picture. My good digital camera isn’t with me at the moment. [Here](http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/6764/george2.jpg) you can see that the George-puss has a white streak which begins at the top of his head, goes down his nose and extends down to his upper lip. I would like to have a little miniature bow-tie sewn onto a little ribbon for him to wear around his neck. ---
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/33 "2009-09-24T09:45:05Z")
Hi everyone! I love you too! 😃 Actually my favourites are grey tabbies. ---
**Author:** ![Magicicada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c67d28/32.png) [@Magicicada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magicicada)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/34 "2009-09-24T12:34:19Z")
> [@sweetie pea](#): > > Somewhat related: I have a cat who would be a tuxedo cat, except she is grey and white. I keep thinking there should be a name for that, but I don’t know my formal wear very well. Do any of the tuxedo cat people know? > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > [Morning dress](http://www.blacktieguide.com/Supplemental/Other_Formalwear/Morning_Dress/LondonLounge.jpg), perhaps. Thank you! I will refer to her as such from here on out. (Although she is cuter than the one in the picture.) ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/35 "2009-09-24T12:37:20Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > It’s an unofficial requirement that all ours be very different colors. We have an orange tabby, a brown tabby, and a tuxedo. That was an official requirement for me when I was getting cats. I’m nearsighted (prescription about -3), and I wanted cats that I could tell apart at five feet without my glasses, so I would know who was sleeping at my feet. We have a dilute calico and a silver-gray cat, so I can tell them apart easily without my glasses. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/36 "2009-09-24T14:09:59Z")
> [@Mr Bus Guy](#): > > [Wild bears agree.](http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/FPkqsDXAYuyfbUs-GRyh-w?feat=directlink) [Indeed.](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060613-cat-bear.html) ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/37 "2009-09-24T15:55:51Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Something like 99.99% of calicos are female. That sounds about right. Two X chromosomes have to be present in order for a cat to have a calico phenotype. So in order for a male to be a calico, it has to have have XXY chromosomes, which is pretty rare, plus those X’s have to be the right ones for calico-ism [sp?]. I believe being XXY also means they’re always infertile. Can’t go wrong with a classic fat tabby cat (orange or silver). I also love black (well, as close as they come to black…it’s more of an approximation, and even then, extremely rare) Persians. Unrelated, but I also think poly-dactyls are pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/38 "2009-09-24T17:05:21Z")
> [@Orange\_Skinner](#): > > I also love black (well, as close as they come to black…it’s more of an approximation, and even then, extremely rare) Persians. [Here](http://lh4.ggpht.com/mjbmeister/SAGmPnD8VzI/AAAAAAAADqA/PYsMhgHFjdY/s400/black-persian-cat-gammateilchen.jpg) [ya](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://white-persian-cats.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/black-persian-cat.jpg&imgrefurl=http://white-persian-cats.com/black-cat/&usg=__OMCqbWh7as0WGZN_wIxsWFWeXa0=&h=267&w=401&sz=16&hl=en&start=12&tbnid=lEaMjKf1hg04MM:&tbnh=83&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dblack%2Bpersian%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den) [go](http://lh4.ggpht.com/mjbmeister/SAGmPnD8VxI/AAAAAAAADpw/RTIwfWm_1D8/s400/black-persian-cat-chrys-campos.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/39 "2009-09-24T17:06:30Z")
My favorite cat color is gray (or “blue”). I think Russian Blues, particularly the females, are lovely cats with their shimmery blue fur and bright green eyes. I also like brown or gray tabbies, black cats, and the ticked Abyssinian/Singapura color scheme. Pretty much the only cat color I’m not terribly fond of is the combination colorand white (patchy–I love tuxedo cats) but even then it depends on the individual cat. ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/40 "2009-09-24T17:48:36Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > I would like to have a little miniature bow-tie sewn onto a little ribbon for him to wear around his neck. I, sir, could make this happen 😉 I feel like I need to have one black cat and one marmalade on hand at all times. [Poe](http://www.rawdogleather.com/images/poe/poe.jpg) and [Grendel](http://www.rawdogleather.com/images/poe/grendelsidesm.jpg) are [brothers](http://www.rawdogleather.com/images/poe/cats2sm.jpg) from [another mother](http://www.rawdogleather.com/images/poe/cats3sm.jpg)… although they seem to spend +/- 90% of their time [spooning](http://www.rawdogleather.com/images/poe/spooningcats.jpg), so perhaps their relationship is less [fraternal](http://www.rawdogleather.com/images/poe/spooningcats2.jpg) than we imagine. Grendel is camera-shy, so I don’t have many photos of him. We call him “Cletus”, as due to an unfortunate set of assumptions on the part of his mother/aunt and father(s)/uncle(s) owner, his family tree does not fork. [Poe](http://www.rawdogleather.com/images/poe/nappingpoesm.jpg) is a former [research animal](http://www.rawdogleather.com/images/poe/nappingpoe2sm.jpg); you can just barely see one of his ear tattoos in that last photo. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303.md?page=3)