Cats
mackerel tabbies with white. The two mackerel
tabbies are quite lightly marked on a ticked background and show some rufousing (red tints).
The true sex-linked red Abyssinian is bright orange with a red tail tip. It is important for
breeders to know whether they have sex-linked red or non-sex-linked red as this will affect
the breeding program. Where there is sex-linked red, there can also be tortoishells. Tortie
Abyssinians occur, but since the breed does not permit white, these are always brindled. The
combination of brindling and ticking can make it almost impossible to determine whether a
female is tortie or not just from a visual inspection. Sometimes a female Abyssinian is only
known to be a genetic tortie when she produces a mix of red and black kittens!
Ticked tabby also occurs in non-pedigree cats. In randombred cats with the ticked tabby
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