Her breed would be domestic shorthair and color is calico. A male tortoiseshell or calico pattern cat would be the next most unusual since this would mean the male has an extra X chromosome. The hardest type of tabby cat to identify is the ticked variety. Ticked tabbies are the rarest among the common tabby cats, and it can be challenging to find one. The patches of color can be any size, but the underlying coat color doesn’t affect the darker pattern of swirls, stripes, or spots. They may have some health issues that are common in their parent breeds. The Tabby cats live a longer life as compared to the Calico cats and so their mixed cat has a long lifespan. Calico and tortoiseshell cats receive one X chromosome with the black coat color gene and one X chromosome with the orange coat color gene. Their life expectancy may range from 12 years to 20 years. Your girl does have interesting patterning to her coat and a lot of black. It’s also possible to have a caliby, which is a calico cat that has tabby markings. The Tabby Calico mixed cats live a longer lifespan than the other medium-sized mixed cat breeds. Calico females will usually give birth to calico, tortoiseshell or orange females just because of how genetics work. In order for a male to be a calico they have to have an extra chromosome, which is a rare occurence. Tabby (Brown / Chocolate), White, Calico. Calico cats usually are female because color gene's are sex linked. Your cat is calico because she has the coloring that matches the calico definition. Bengal cats are usually not black or calico and unless your cats parents had pedigree paperwork they were just regular domestic cats. Bengal being one of the newer breeds is rare to find outside of a breeders. Dogs have been selectively breed by humans for thousands of years for specific work, looks and purpose which is why so many dogs are part of recognizable breeds or related to them compared to cats who were able to breed however they liked for much longer. As such, there is only a very small percentage of the cat population that has any relation to any recognized cat breed. Breeding cats is a newer human hobby that started only in the last 150-200 years. Most cats are not any specific breed but just everyday domestic cat. Calico is a color pattern describing a cat with orange, black, tans and white coat while bengal is a specific cat breed.
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