They will be most noticeable on the lips and nose where the fur is the thinnest. You may find tiny black spots on his skin. Just like redheaded humans are likely to develop freckles, so are ginger cats! So, it appears that whether your cat has long and fluffy or short and fuzzy hair, they might be of the ginger persuasion. Bengals, toy-gers and Savannahs look like tigers in miniature. Long haired breeds such as Persians, Maine coons and American curl can have the orange tabby pattern.Ībyssinians are favored for the orange ticked pattern. Solid orange simply is not a color trait found in cats. All orange cats have stripe patterns, however faint. You can have a golden tabby, a silver tabby, a cream tabby or a yellow tabby. This is the same pigment that creates red hair in humans. The reason for this is because these cats have an ascendance of a particular pigment known as pheomelanin. Orange tabbies all have their own distinct shades and tints, but they all will have some variance of an orange, reddish or perhaps even cream-colored hue. The breeds that most commonly have this pigment are Munchkins, Egyptian Maus, British Shorthairs, Bengals, Maine Coons, Abyssinians, American Bobtails and Persians It could be a shade of orange closer to red or yellow or more brownish.

While some breeds are more likely to produce orange pigments rather than others, this is not a breed but simply a coat variety. Just about every cat breed not dependent on color can have the orange tabby pattern.

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