![]() Likewise, consider Mungojerrie and Rumpleteaser if you have a bonded pair. Elliot, Jenny-Any-Dots might be appropriate. Now suppose you have a torbie, a tortoiseshell cat with a tabby pattern mixed in. (In the original source material, she isn't any nicer to cats than she is to dogs.)Įbony, Jet, Onyx, Sable, Raven, Shadow and Pepper are all good names for your dark lady. If you like Disney villains Grimhilde, Maleficent or Ursula would work.Ĭruella might be fitting if her head is half one color and half another, but perhaps Cruella isn't a good person to name a cat after. Try Bastet, Luna, Venus, Freya, Hecate, Minerva, Sekhmet, Diana, Phoebe, Selene, Dawon, Atalanta, Tyche or Isis. ![]() Ancient mythology suggests good names for such cats. If your tortie is mostly black, try the mysterious. If Honey feels a bit jejune, try Pamela which is Greek for “All honey”.Īlso maybe you would like to check out this full list of orange cat names for your feline. If you don't care for that song about going to the country to eat a lot of peaches, consider Momo, the Japanese word for peach. You could get fancy and call her Lady Marmalade for a song about the Moulin Rouge. Marmalade, Peaches and Honey are all sweet names. If you still like flower names, Dahlia, Cosmos, Marigold and Sunflower would all be fitting. Pumpkin would be fitting for a sweet natured orange tortie, particularly if she was born near Thanksgiving or Halloween. Some tortoiseshells have mostly orange fur. Kameko means “tortoise child” in Japanese and would fit. Robyn's a pretty name, but if you give it to a cat, someone might wonder why you named her after something she tries to catch and eat. ![]() ![]() If you name her Delia, be prepared to hear someone sing “Delia's Gone” should she go missing. Lola's a good name, if you don't mind associations with a song about a crossdresser. If you like flower themed names, try Heather, Holly, Daisy, Sage, Lily or Iris. If you like Disney inspired names, there's Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Megara, Elsa, Anna, Aurora, Esmeralda, Tinkerbell, Merida, Mulan, Nala, Tiana or Moana. Some people like to give their cats human names, to make them feel more like one of the family. Also depending on his fur pattern and how magical he is maybe some of these Harry Potter inspired fictional names may do the trick! Female tortoiseshell cat names If his face is perfectly divided in two colors, a Star Trek fan might be drawn to the names Bele and Lokai. If you feel more modern, recall that it's believed that torties can keep ghosts away from a house so Peter, Ray, Winston or Egon might fit for your little Ghostbuster. If he's mostly black, you might call him Ovinnik after a Polish fae. Li Shou was a singular feline hero in Chinese mythology who kept rats and mice from eating the crops. (Means “rare” in Arabic)Īn ancient Peruvian god named Ai-Apaec was known to take the form of a tomcat. Because he's such a rarity, you might also consider names like Lucky or Jasper or Nadir. You may consider other X names like Xavier or Max or Felix (the wonderful wonderful cat!). Why not commemorate this rarity by naming him Xerxes, the one name that has two X's? It's especially appropriate if he has Persian blood. On the odd chance you do find one of those rare male torties, it's because he has an extra X chromosome. Chances are very good such a cat is female. This is why a female cat can have three colors and therefore a tricolor or calico coat: they have an X chromosome for black, an X chromosome for orange, and white is expressed independently.Let's say your cat is the lovable and beautiful tortoiseshell patterned type. The white color, however, is not linked to sex chromosomes. Females have two X chromosomes, so they can have genes for both black and orange and thus create tortoiseshell patterns. Males only have one X, so a male cat will only be either black or orange. In other words, for these colors to show, the cat must have the X chromosome. The information for black and orange colors are in the X chromosome. Depending on the combination, the cat can be male or female. The mother always gives an X chromosome, and the father can give X or Y. Cats, like all mammals, have two sex chromosomes: X and Y. Sex chromosomes are the ones that determine the sex of the cat. Cats have 38 chromosomes: 19 are provided by the mother and 19 from the father. Therefor, the color and pattern of the cat's coat is a feature that is linked to its sex.Ĭhromosomes are structures found in the nucleus of cells that contain all of a living organism's genetic information, that is, its DNA. The color and pattern of a cat's coat depends on the animal's genes more specifically, the information for hair color is coded into the two chromosomes that determine the animal's sex.
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