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So this seems like a fine opportunity to talk about orange tabbies. Here at Northwest Spay and Neuter Center, we see 13,000 pets per year. We see more cats than dogs, and we see so many orange tabbies!
\nHere are some fun facts about these great cats:<\/p>\n
Orange tabbies don\u2019t all present in the exact same hue, but will have some variation of a reddish, orange, and\/or cream-colored hue. Why? These cats have a predominance of a certain pigment known as pheomelanin\u2014the same pigment that produces red hair in humans<\/p>\n
The orange tabby will typically present with 1 of 4 different types of coat patterns.<\/p>\n
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People who own and love orange tabbies will easily be able to tell the difference between the various coat marking patterns that are common to this type of feline. They include the classic pattern, mackerel pattern, striped pattern, and ticked pattern.<\/p>\n
One thing you\u2019ll never see? A tabby with a solid orange coat. For some reason, orange tabbies will always have some sort of pattern in their coat\u2014the mackerel one, in particular, makes them look quite a lot like little tigers! (And for what it\u2019s worth, domestic house cats and tigers share about 96% of their DNA\u2014oh my!)<\/p>\n
A quote from Jim Davis (creator of Garfield) comes to mind ~ \u201cIn my head, the sky is blue, the grass is green and cats are orange.\u201d
\nDo you share your heart with an orange tabby?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So this seems like a fine opportunity to talk about orange tabbies. Here at Northwest Spay and Neuter Center, we see 13,000 pets per year. We see more cats than dogs, and we see so many orange tabbies! Here are some fun facts about these great cats: Orange tabbies don\u2019t all present in the exact…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[25,27,26],"yoast_head":"\n