Red furred cats are also portrayed as scrappy, wisecracking, comic-relief and maybe a bit spirited, fiery, tricky, and clever. Usually male in fiction regardless of whether there's another cat present, but especially when paired with an all-white cat. Can occur with or without white-spotting the white spots can be stark white, off-white, flesh-colored, light yellow, or any combination of two or more of those the pattern of the white spots can be a locket, tuxedo, mitted, bicolor, harlequin, or van. Red and cream cats that are genetic nonagoutis have muzzles that are orange or cream like the rest of their bodies and those that are genetic agoutis have white or whitish muzzles, but both are tabbies even if they look solid-colored. Red, Orange, or Ginger: Either one or more shade of orange, yellow orange, light orange, or yellow note There are no actual nonagouti (that is, solid-colored) red or cream cats. Most fictional Sphynx cats have this skin tone or a van-patterned one.These are often, but not always long-haired in fiction.Almost always have blue eyes in fiction (unless when it's an albino cat with red eyes), though the deafness associated with blue-eyed white cats is rarely mentioned. Usually female when paired with an orange male cat. An alternate portrayal of a white cat is as a The Mentor. Generally good, particularly if paired against a black cat (unless they are the Right-Hand Cat).The dominant white gene trumps all other coat color genes.: note The all-white fur pattern can either be a result of pink-eyed (or complete) albinism (very rare), blue eyed albinism (rare), most extreme form of white spotting (rare), or the dominant white gene (most common). White: Usually all-white in fur color, can sometimes include extreme high grade white spotting cats with nonwhite patches restricted to the ears, the top of the head, and the tip of the tail at most. However, a handful of cat breeds do have consistent stereotypes associated with them in fiction, as can be seen below. Breed stereotypes are rarely done with cats since breed variations aren't always as striking and well known. This often has little to do with how the breed really acts, as anyone who has cats will attest. Sometimes, a cat's breed is used to determine its personality by making it a kind of voiced ethnic or nationality stereotype, especially if the name of the breed has a country in it. A black or gray kitten, an orange kitten, and a white kitten seem to be most popular for triplet kittens, essentially serving as a feline equivalent of Blonde, Brunette, Redhead. In fiction, whenever there are kitten sibling characters, they usually each have a different fur color. Long-haired cats, usually Persians and Angoras, are often portrayed as prestigious or high-class. The monochrome type of pairing- black or black-and-white with white- is more common in cartoons made in The Golden Age of Animation. When a white cat is paired with an orange, black or black-and-white cat, the white cat is usually female and the non-white cat is usually male. So when writers want to use a cat's visual appearance to denote its personality they usually rely on its color and its fur length. Cat breeds are rarely as distinctive as dog breeds (certain exceptions like the Persian and the Siamese notwithstanding) - see This Index Meows for more about cats other than stereotypes only. With dogs, breeds are often used as a shorthand for personality stereotypes.
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