SA Nursing II Module 2

________A true black color, solid to the roots. Some black kittens may develop a "rust" or "copper" look to the coats, scattered white or silver hairs, or even a lighter-colored area around the neck (ruff) until they grow into adulthood, which can take up to 2 years. Even if there is even a small patch of red or cream on a cat, cat registries consider the cat to be a tortoiseshell cat, and not a black cat. Synonym for a black cat is ebony.

________: A gray-blue color. It can range from very light to a deep color, which is almost black. This color is the one that most non-cat people call gray. A blue kitten may show tabby markings while still young, with the markings becoming lighter and eventually disappearing as the cat matures.
__________ A coat which has sections (patches) of blue and sections of cream. The colors are clearly separate. Synonyms include blue-cream, dilute tortoiseshell, blue-cream tortoiseshell, and bluecream tortoiseshell.

________ A copper/brown color.

_______A dark, rich brown, often with what seem to be black overtones.

_________ A warm, honey beige.

________ Another term for chocolate; synonym is ______brown.

___________: A medium (milk chocolate) to dark (bittersweet) chocolate brown color. Synonyms are chestnut and chestnut brown.

__________ A light to medium warm brown color that has some red overtones throughout it.

Because all cream cats are also ____- cats,

_____ is not technically a color, but rather a prefix designating that the colors in the particular pattern are a paler version of the usual colors associated with that pattern.

__________: Another term for black.

__________: A warm, pinkish buff color. Sometimes it is described as a light lavender with pale cocoa overtones.

_______ Another term for red.

________ Another term for lilac.

________ A blond color, often described as apricot. It may sometimes look like a rich, warm cream color.

__________ Another term for lilac.

___________: A pale color that can range from a frosty gray with a pinkish cast to a pinkish lavender . Synonyms are frost and lavender.

_________: A medium brown color.

_______: A pale, silvery gray color, with pale fawn overtones and a pinkish cast.

________ An orange-red color that has a wide variety of intensities. This color is what many non-cat people call orange, marmalade, or ginger.

__________ The black agouti color found in Abyssinians and Somalis. It is actually a combination of a fur that is colored an orange-brown (ground color), which then has bands of dark brown or black on it (ticking).

______: A dark brown.

________ A dark brown.

__________: Seal brown, sable or dark brown ticking on an ivory fur (ground color). This term is also used by one registry as a pattern name to designate colors which almost completely even, but which still have within them some pointing.

_______ A pale, silver color. Ideally, it should look like a piece of polished sterling silver. For some colors, such as blue silver, it also means a fur tipped with the primary color, but white underneath.

____________: This term describes a coat that is blue, but because of a combination of factors, including he coat's length, tint and texture, appears to have a silvery haze (patina). It is not a blue silver, that is having black at the tips of the hairs.

_________: Another term for brown spotted tabby.
________ While often called a solid color, white is usually, and more correctly, treated as the absence of any color. In some breeds, white kittens can be born with a "smudge" or "cap" of black or blue hairs on top of the head. The area of color usually will vanish as the cat becomes an adult and develops its adult coat. in around 9 to 18 months.

Some young, solid kittens may look like they have faint ________markings, particularly on the tail and legs (__________). These tend to become less noticeable or even disappear over time.

Visually, a _____ cat is one with dark patterns spread in a regular pattern across a lighter colored coat.

There are a variety of tabby patterns:
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________: This pointed cat shows a pattern of tabby marks in the color on the mask, ears, legs and tail only. It does not appear on the balance of the body of the cat. As with the solid point, the coat color is distributed over the entire body. The color is darkest and truest on the extremities, and gradually becomes lighter towards the center of the body.

___________As with the solid point, the coat color is distributed over the entire body. The color is darkest and truest on the extremities, and gradually becomes lighter towards the center of the body. However, unlike the solid, lynx and tortie points, this pointed cat shows only a slight differentiation in degree of color between the extremities and the body. In the lighter colors, it actually appears to be a solid cat. The synonym is Tonkinese pattern.

Cats with a dark color at the tip of the fur are called ________ cats.

sometimes also called ___________

__________: As a general rule, the tip color runs about one half Or more of the length of the fur. This coloring makes the cat appear to be colored, until the hairs are separated. Then, the white or light undercoat can easily be seen.

cats that have black, red and cream patches that are separate from each other (unbrindled).

ny cat with two colors and white, including a tortoiseshell and white.

________: A cat that is largely colored (about three quarters colored), but which has white limited to its paws. In most cases, white will be on its back legs, belly, chest and chin. The synonym is gloved.