About Callie the Calico |
- Status: Adopted!
- Adoption Fee: $50.00
- Species: Cat
- General Color: Calico or Dilute Calico
- Color: Calico
- Current Size: 7 Pounds
- Current Age: 20 Years 2 Months (best estimate)
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- Microchipped: Yes
- Declawed: No
- Housetrained: Yes
- Owner Experience Needed: None
- Reaction to New People: Friendly
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Foster Update 6/1 - I have been fostering Callie for a little more than two weeks and all is quite well. Callie, is doing great. She jumped out of the carrier, looked around, and said "OK". There has been absolutely no difficulty or commotion with her - she is friendly, confident, easygoing and absolutely beautiful. Never batted an eye over my 9 cats or 2 dogs and because she was so relaxed, they were too. She is totally sociable without being pesty. I cannot believe this girl has not been adopted; she is just a wonderful girl.
Callie is a wonderful Calico. She is about six years old but still has a lot of kitten playfulness in her. She is really a beauty!
According to cat-lovers-only.com, the Calico cat breed is actually not a breed at all, but a tri-color coat patter, often black, red, and white. Many different types of cats can have this coat pattern, and it is not restricted to any particular type of breed. All three colors are in a distinct patches, not mixed as in Tortoiseshells. To be a true tri-color, a calico cat's colors must be: 1) white; 2) red or cream; and 3) black, blue, chocolate, lilac, cinnamon, or fawn. The variations in color from red and black are caused by a gene which dilutes, or lightens up the basic color, and produces a dilute calico cat, most commonly with a coat of white, cream, and blue."