![]() Regarding the eye colors, we can easily recognize orange cats due to their green, gold, or copper eyes. Orange tabby cats feature orange, reddish or even cream-colored coats due to the presence of a particular pigment in their body (pheomelanin), which is the same pigment that creates ginger people (people with red hair). You can easily recognize an orange tabby cat after its thin lines on its face, after the well defined markings around its eyes, and the distinctive “M” letter on its forehead. I’m sure that you’ve never seen a cat with full orange, red or cream coat without the tabby markings because even if the markings are faint, you can see them well when the cat sits in full sunlight. It seems that all felines have the tabby cat gene in their DNA, however, some cat coat colors or patterns may hide the tabby markings, even if the gene is present in their genetic code. Giving the fact that this is not a distinctive breed, orange cats can have short hair or long hair coats, so you can choose from a pretty wide variety of breeds and coats if you want to own such a lovely cat. They have many names, but we are actually talking about cat breeds featuring this specific coat pattern.Īlmost all orange cats (red cats) are orange tabby cats. ![]() These cats are called orange cats, red cats, ginger cats, Garfield cats, marmalade cats, yellow or butter cats, caramel cats, or butterscotch cats. We are not talking about a new breed of cats here, we are only talking about cats that have an orange (red) coat, which is usually tabby in pattern. Orange cats represent a common type of cats that differ from the other domestic felines only by their coat pattern.
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