Brown Patched Mackerel Tabby
d.o.b. November 12, 2009
Dam: CH Gildethros Shaded Purrfection, Shaded Silver Patched
Sire: Gildethros Silver Shadow, Silver Mackerel Tabby
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Gildethros Gold Nugget Brown Patched Mackerel Tabby d.o.b. November 12, 2009 Dam: CH Gildethros Shaded Purrfection, Shaded Silver Patched Sire: Gildethros Silver Shadow, Silver Mackerel Tabby |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In the wonderful world of cat colors, there are many variations within the same color. With brown tabbies, we get what we call "hot" or "warm" ones all the way down to what we call "cold" or "cool" brown tabbies. What you see on the street tend to be cool colors including the brown tabbies. Often the only real brown that you see is a warm beige on the britches, around the face and maybe on the belly. And even in the purebred world of colors where breeders are in fact working very hard to perfect certain colors, the main way we tell silver tabbies apart from brown tabbies at birth is by looking at the tip of the bridge of the nose. - A brown tabby should have a brown or distinctly golden hue to the fur on the bridge of the nose whereas a silver tabby should not. And then as the babies/colors mature, the brown tabbies should get warmer while the silver tabbies should get more and more silver and brighten up a lot. And then there's Nugget...! At a mere five weeks old in the photos above, she is already warmer than most brown tabbies ever get. In fact, she was born with super "hot" brown flashing around her ears and face and such warm tones on her body that the only way to tell where her red patches were/are is to look for an absence of black in the barring. In other words, the background color and red of the bars in her red patches is only a tiny bit warmer than her brown tabby pattern! The pictures I've taken over the months and years honestly do not do her color justice. Just know that I've had a number of other breeders and CFA judges who have seen her and every one of them has just gaped and gone pretty much speechless at the sight of her. The gist of the first words people muster up is "where!, what!, how! on earth did you get THAT color!" It's almost as if they're asking what color Nugget is while simultaneously acknowledging that she is one of the hottest brown tabbies they've ever seen of any breed. And so it goes that I've kept Nugget for breeding in hopes that she might gift the world with a few more just like her. Be sure to scroll down to see all of her pictures and read more about her... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The two photos above show Nugget and her brown tabby sister. You can see how black her sister's pattern is compared to her's which seems to be relatively bright the way a silver tabby would be. For the longest time, I thought Nugget might be a golden. And but for the fact that you can see her mackerel barring clearly even now that she's over two years old, she may be a golden. A "bad" golden inasmuch as you're not supposed to see any bars on a golden. But she sure isn't a "normal" brown tabby either... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nugget is about 2 months old in the photos above. As hot a brown tabby as Nugget is, her brother is no slouch for a red tabby either! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| My only regret is that Nugget has a significant profile fault that would make it impossible to Grand her - a hump on the lower part of her nose with a rather pronounced divet right behind it - a most definite no-no if you're talking about correct type for a Turkish Angora's profile. Even so, I often do toy with the idea of showing her just to WOW the show halls with that amazing color. And pretty much everything else about her is in fact purrfection - a super silky, long coat, great ear set and facial expression as well as fabulous overall refinement and balance. Darn that hump! Oh well... For those of us who get to see her and know her, she is FABULOUS inside and out. She is without a doubt the most active Turkish Angora I've ever owned. A bit too much crazy in her for a novice TA owner to take on. But an absolute delight for those of us who really do adore active, social, silly, playful, naughty, crazy cats who just have to do it all and be a part of everything. Aside from actually climbing the curtains (as the easiest way to get to the curtain rods and hence the spiders and whatever else might be lurking up there), she is a really well behaved cat. Just very, very busy and FAST about getting it all done. And I'm sure the only reason she climbs the curtains is because I honestly don't mind. I do on a certain level because it really is politically incorrect. But with so many kittens in training over the years who've managed to scamper up and down every curtain I've owned and ruin any curtains that could be ruined, I only have cat proof drapes or ones that have in fact been thoroughly plucked up and don't look half bad that way. Long and short, if I actually set my mind to teaching Nugget not to climb the curtains, I have no doubt that she would find another way to amuse herself. She's a great cat who really does love to please every bit as much as any other Turkish Angora I've known. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kittens | New Arrivals | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home Page | Adoptions | Our Cats | Future Litters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||