I like all the different colors, but I have a partiality to the buff tabby boys, like Maceo. 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.
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.
We have one gray/white cat and two Tuxedos. If/when we acquire more they will be Tuxedos.
But I also like Basement Cats.
Morning dress, perhaps.
All our cats have been rescues so we never considered colors but another vote for Abyssinians.
I like invisible cats.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My little cat George 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 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.
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Actually my favourites are grey tabbies.
Thank you! I will refer to her as such from here on out. (Although she is cuter than the one in the picture.)
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.
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.
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.
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I feel like I need to have one black cat and one marmalade on hand at all times. Poe and Grendel are brothers from another mother… although they seem to spend +/- 90% of their time spooning, so perhaps their relationship is less fraternal 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 is a former research animal; you can just barely see one of his ear tattoos in that last photo.