# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![LunarPlexus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LunarPlexus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LunarPlexus)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/41 "2009-09-24T19:10:08Z")
Meow-ve ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/42 "2009-09-24T19:17:17Z")
> [@LunarPlexus](#): > > Meow-ve Or purrple. I like them all! However, I am partial to black cats and flame points, and torties and tabbies. ---
**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, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/43 "2009-09-24T19:22:50Z")
Also, this isn’t a coat color, but I love the white stripe that some cats have running down their bellies. Bonus if they have the white shirt front, too. A white spot on the tummy of an otherwise solid colored or patterned cat is good, too. It gives me a target to tickle. ---
**Author:** ![Elysium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@Elysium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysium)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/44 "2009-09-24T19:58:40Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > I like white cats (especially white cats with two different colored eyes) You would love to meet my [Eliot](http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikerapa/2179062408/) then! He’s not that bright, but very lovable. I love orange shorthair cats best, and the late [Moriarty](http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikerapa/3567193659/) was a prime example. I love torties too, but haven’t had one of my own. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/45 "2009-09-24T20:06:23Z")
Marmalade, hands down. Every orange tabby I’ve met has been extraordinarily sweet and affectionate. No clue why that is. For looks - the tuxedo cat is really stylin’. The one I shared walls with for several years was a very nice cat also. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/46 "2009-09-24T23:54:02Z")
I couldn’t say which I like the best. Orange boys are always such cool mellow cats, but I guess since I have tuxedo kitties now I’ll go with them. They have the best nature by far. This is Wonton: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/2462/3951208385_c2eaa06b4c_b.jpg "My other handsome fellow") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/bellabrigido/3951208385/) This is Miso chillin with her tongue out: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/2517/3708768104_2f84a46c8d_b.jpg "DUH") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/bellabrigido/3708768104/) ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/47 "2009-09-25T00:00:40Z")
Pretty much anything but solid white - they tend to get dirty and/or sunburned. Fluffy tuxedo cats are very cute. ---
**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/48 "2009-09-25T03:08:29Z")
I favor calicos and torties, both regular and dilute. Right now I have a patched tortie persian, a black persian, a flamepoint persian, and and ginger and white tabby. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/49 "2009-09-25T03:33:15Z")
Orange cats. I don’t have any since my 19 year old passed in April. Next would be Tuxedos, but I haven’t had any since the last one I had passed away sveral years ago. I tend to retire a color after having special cats with that color. Currently, my favorite is a silvery lynx point. My two youngest kitties sport those colors. ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/50 "2009-09-25T03:43:37Z")
My favorite cat colors are all black and all gray. We currently have a gray kitten and a gray tuxedo kitten. The gray fur is least noticeable on fabric, but the kittens always win at hide and seek, since they’re basically shadow colored. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/51 "2009-09-25T16:44:07Z")
I love solid gray kitties. There’s one in my neighborhood that is super-sweet, cuddly, and very cute. I also adore little white feet on any color of cat. > [@Orange\_Skinner](#): > > Unrelated, but I also think poly-dactyls are pretty cool. Definitely! One of the sweetest gray cats I’ve ever met is a polydactyl – it’s fun watching him move those extra toes when he’s playing and pouncing. ---
**Author:** ![cantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/52 "2009-09-25T16:57:41Z")
I grew up with siamese seal points and have a soft spot for that colouring. As a kid we had visited relatives with a lilac point and I thought it looked odd until we returned home and I discovered just how dark the seal points are. I love blue cats. We got a new cat that was son of the aforementioned lilac point and a neighbouring black cat. The result was a gorgeous blue grey cat. He had the sleek body style and coat of a siamese, and solid blue colouring of a Russian Blue. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/53 "2009-09-26T00:22:55Z")
For me, it’s not so much the color of fur as it is the length. I much prefer [long-haired](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Grey-female-longhaired-cat-MaggieO-MCB.jpg) to [short-haired](http://www.malcolyn.co.uk/images/cat3.jpg) cats–I just like seeing a big ol’ furball with a nice fluffy tail. Not that I don’t love my own short-haired calico…I just like the big fuzzies, too. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303/54 "2009-09-26T13:59:07Z")
I loved my [black himalayan Banzai](http://www.geocities.com/aruvqann/picture_1.jpg) he was old school, none of the fugly flat faced shit that is popular. I also had an immense black fluffy maine coon cat back when I was in high school [sorry, no picture, it was predigital and all my stuff got fried when my parents house burned down] named Pyewackett who arrived pregnant [we think she got out during shipping … but she had the cutest kittens] I love the classic siamese, seal more than flame point if given the choice. I would not mind an abbysinnian or a russian blue, though right now I have a [cute jellicle](http://www.geocities.com/aruvqann/jezzi.jpg) named jezibel we have no plans to get any more cats until she is gone. We normally get used cats from the vet or shelters so what we end up with tends to be sort of pot luck. I may name my next kitteh Sportula [latin for pot luck] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-cat-colors/511303.md?page=2)