Orange Tabby Cat Patterns. It is not true that a lot of men and women are conscious of but it. The term calico much like tabby refers to a pattern of colors rather than a breed.

Within their calico spots they may have tabby stripes. The mackerel pattern is what everyone knows as the traditional orange tabby but there are also cats in a classic pattern a ticked pattern and a striped pattern. Calico cats have three colors.
A dark line leading from the outer corner of each eye at a downwards angle to below each ear and a darker m shaped pattern on their foreheads.
Tabby is a coat pattern that features stripes dots lines or swirls with a distinctive m marking on the forehead. A tabby is any domestic cat felis catus with a distinctive m shaped marking on their forehead stripes by their eyes and across their cheeks along their back and around their legs and tail and differing by tabby type characteristic striped dotted lined flecked banded or swirled patterns on the body neck shoulders sides flanks chest and abdomen. However many people still associate the term tabby with domestic cats that roam the streets and peek. It s actually a coat pattern and there are five different types of tabby cats.