very strange tabby cat

[iDiru]

I came across this strange tabby cat today. She's half orange tabby, half grey tabby.


notice her funny two colored lip.
I call her the two toned tabby. I've seen plenty of tabbies before but none like this.

does anyone want to explain these genetics to me

I'm pretty sure this is the father

[Erin puppy]

looks like tortoise shell tabby cross =P

[~ Aki - Fairy ~]

Looks like a brown tabby, to me. They're quite common, at least in my area

[Keyona]

i think genetics wise it is a mosaic effect of some sort....but not sure.

[Eizoryu]

I've heard of people calling that coloration "torbie", which is totally a mashup of tortie/tabby.
Whatever you wanna call it, she's cute.

[iDiru]

Eizoryu

I've heard of people calling that coloration "torbie", which is totally a mashup of tortie/tabby.
Whatever you wanna call it, she's cute.

so is the tortie what creates the spots to allow different colored stripes?

[marshmallowcreampie]

I don't know enough about cat coat patterns to say... But that is a GORGEOUS cat there.

[Erin puppy]

iDiru

Eizoryu

I've heard of people calling that coloration "torbie", which is totally a mashup of tortie/tabby.
Whatever you wanna call it, she's cute.

so is the tortie what creates the spots to allow different colored stripes?

yes!

although I thought of it more like a tortoise shell with the 'stripped' pattern laid over it, because while tortoise shell pattern is the placement of different colors, the tabby pattern is simply the lightening of the pigments in a stripped pattern.

so she's like a tortoise shell cat whose colors get lighter in certain (stripped) spots because of her father's genetics.

[Viscus Lunasol]

My cat is like this too smile
It may be hard to tell in this pic, but the sun is lighting up her "torbie" markings:



You can see the orange color on her head, over the tabby "M" marking 3nodding
I can get better pics of her.
It is most likely from breeding with a tortoise shell, because my sister's cat(a tortoise shell) was from the same farm, and one of the possible parents was tortoise shell, so my cat was probably the offspring of the tortoise shell and one of the tabbies that lived on the farm too.
She is a beautiful cat!