Poll - give it up for greys.

[Gwen]

Looks like the greys are clear winners

Jaffa please try and remember your password,we need as many votes as we can

Noooo, I have a sneaky suspicion that it will be Jaffa's Mum and not Jaffa himself that is voting.  She is deranged and thinks grey cats are blue 

Oooooooops sowwy

[Tiggy's Mum]

Looks like the greys are clear winners

Jaffa please try and remember your password,we need as many votes as we can

Noooo, I have a sneaky suspicion that it will be Jaffa's Mum and not Jaffa himself that is voting.  She is deranged and thinks grey cats are blue 

[Gwen]

Looks like the greys are clear winners

Jaffa please try and remember your password,we need as many votes as we can

[Susanne (urbantigers)]

I wonder if I've time to register under a few aliases and vote again... 

Jaffa was going to vote but he couldn't remember his password.

[Tiggy's Mum]

I'm confused but i think she is Gray, how do you vote in the poll? 

Most definitely grey and very cute with it too    There should be a poll at the very top of this page, just click on which category you want to vot for, once you've voted you'll be able to see the results  The announcement for the official colour 'as voted by the people' all our gorgeous babes are will be made later this afternoon 

[Catcrazymum]

Hi,
I must say all your cats are gourgous, i didnt realise there were so many differant types of Gray/Blue cats. I have just got 2 kittens , a Gray called Star and a Tortie called Twinkle just thought I'd post a pic of my babies since star is Gray/blue?? I'm confused but i think she is Gray, how do you vote in the poll? 

[lilycat]

See now, Pearl most definitely looks Blue   


It's all down to shading I think....Humphrey is officially Black and White but in actual fact he's a very dark brown and white - it's enough to drive you   

[Reynard]

Well Josh and I are most definately Blue! Do you think I enjoy being called Smokey? Hmmmmm? 

Very definitely, Smokey and Josh - Pearl agrees with you entirely and sends lots of  and thinks the folks who call you both grey are 

She insists I attach a very comely photo of her good self (her good side, naturally) and says that isn't it brilliant that the Blue Quiz Team are slaves to such wonderful blue cats! 

[Tiggy's Mum]

Harry, Lukey and Riley, the founder members of 'Harry's grey gang', will be making the official announcement of the poll results tomorrow afternoon    So if you haven't already voted get your votes in now 

[blackcat]

yes they are

[Susanne (urbantigers)]

Arent' white horses called greys?

[blackcat]

and speaking of horses, there is a very old colour known as a blue roan - a lovely and unusual colour for a horse ...

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

Smokey and Josh you are so handsome and of course you are blue 

[lilycat]

Well, I'm going to keep describing Imogen as a beautiful Grey...because she is       

[Gwen]

Hey, fighting talk now - what colour is this horse? Grey, white or blue? 

Looks white to me

[Tiggy's Mum]

Would like to congratulate Maisey and Xanthe on joining the best club in the world  'Harry's grey gang' 

Josh and Corporal Smokey, you are both gorgeous but I'm afraid you can't join Harry's gang    You'll be in our thoughts though...

[blackcat]

It's a grey - the horse, that is. It probably started life as a dark grey with dapples and faded as it got older ...

[lucy]

Hey, fighting talk now - what colour is this horse? Grey, white or blue? 

[Sabrina (Auferstehen)]

She's gorgeous, a fine example of a grey cat    I guess you'd say she's actually 'gray' though being from the US 

Our dear Smoke is English (and it shows) she was adopted from the shelter down the road, and every day I'm glad I picked her since she is such a sweet cat.

Um, could be gray or grey my spelling has gotten worse since being over here and trying to adapt to the extra letters or strange spelling's you guys have

[Corporal Smokey]

Well Josh and I are most definately Blue! Do you think I enjoy being called Smokey? Hmmmmm? 

[lucy]

Xanthe is supposed to be silver tabby and white - however most of her body is dark grey at the moment with silver markings (she seems to betting (no she doesn't gamble! I meant getting paler gradually). She's not blue, but my brother's dog is!

[Bazsmum]

I have voted grey 

My Maisey (pictured below) is dark grey & white tabby....



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[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

So if Harry is a tabby , why not vote tabby............sigh

[Stuart]

This thread is hilarious 

I agree with Reynard re the technicalities, but I guess you can call your cat whatever colour you want.  However, grey and blue are really just 2 ways of saying the same thing - they don't refer to different shades of 'grey'.  If you entered a 'grey' cat into the hhold section of a cat show it would be described as blue - because in the cat fancy grey is called blue.  The same as ginger is called red.  But outside of the cat fancy I guess you can call your cat sky blue pink with purple dots if you like 

Thats what I was starting to think, Blue = Grey & vica versa 

[Susanne (urbantigers)]

This thread is hilarious 

I agree with Reynard re the technicalities, but I guess you can call your cat whatever colour you want.  However, grey and blue are really just 2 ways of saying the same thing - they don't refer to different shades of 'grey'.  If you entered a 'grey' cat into the hhold section of a cat show it would be described as blue - because in the cat fancy grey is called blue.  The same as ginger is called red.  But outside of the cat fancy I guess you can call your cat sky blue pink with purple dots if you like 

[ccmacey]

How do we know if our cat has the DD gene?

[ccmacey]

Can we not just say the lighter shade is grey.

Anyone who ownes a grey cat you are not allowed to perch, stand up for ya babes. Unless you do think of them as blue.

Harry is a dark grey with lighter grey running through his coat and he is tabby, I going to check him out.

Ooops 

[Stuart]

so does that make Him Blue or Grey 

At the risk of sounding like a broken record... Misty is a gorgeous fluffy grey boy 

Yes nice to look at but a wee bity unpredictable, the photo is what happen'd yesterday when I decided
to carry my love bundle through the house, and he had other ideas
Hamish would NEVER have done that to me, you could carry Him like a baby on His Back and He would just
Lie there Purring

Zookie was Beautiful, Sorry for your Loss  

And Gizzy is a Cracker... or maybe I'm just being Biast

[Reynard]

A blue cat will have a blue / slate tinge to the coat. You folks are hoisting yourselves on your own petards by admitting the fact... 

Also, just to prove a point, and you guys can look it up for yourselves:

The genotype of a standard grey or brown tabby is: A-B-C-D-iiT-/tbtb (the difference is in the polygenes)
The genotype of a blue tabby is: A-B-C-ddiiT-/tbtb
The genotype of a solid blue cat is: aaB-C-dd
The genotype of a blue & white cat is: aaB-C-S-dd

So any cat with the dd gene is blue irrespective of whether tabby or not. Simple and easy to remember. The D gene will either give you a black cat (aa i.e. non-agouti) or a grey / brown tabby (A agouti)

[Reynard]

To quote from "The Book of the Cat" (ISBN: 0 330 26153 3)

"The tabby is in fact a complex colour built up from two component patterns, one superimposed on the othet, that are goverend by two sets of genes. The underlying pattern is called Agouti and is a universal grey camouflaging pattern found in a great majority of mammal species, most notably the rabbit. It is composed of hairs with a bluish base and a black tip separated by yellow banding. Because of the backwards slope of the hairs this produces the freckled greyish colour between the tabby stripes."

[Tiggy's Mum]

so does that make Him Blue or Grey 

At the risk of sounding like a broken record... Misty is a gorgeous fluffy grey boy 

Here is a pic of my bridge baby Zookie would she be considered blue then ...I had her down as a dilute tortie ????

Wow, she's gorgeous (I seem to be using that word a lot but if the cap fits ). I'd say she is a dilute tortie but the main colour of her fur is grey - in my humble non professional opinion 

This is my Gizzy.... On her vaccination certificate the vet has described her as 'GREY'. 

Sylvia, Gizzy is a stunner - that's a great pic of her 

Very good point about the vet records (more evidence  ) Lukey and Riley are down as grey tabby and grey & white.

[Sylvia]

This is my Gizzy.



Before she moved in with us, she used to live with our neighbours across the other side of the road.  At that time we didn't know what her real name was, so we used to call her Grey Kitty, and we have always thought of her as grey.  On her vaccination certificate the vet has described her as 'GREY'.  

Occasionally she does have a posh day (usually when the sun is shining) when I think her coat looks blue.  

[Tiggy's Mum]

so does that make Him Blue or Grey 

At the risk of sounding like a broken record... Misty is a gorgeous fluffy grey boy 

[Littlebobo]

Here is a pic of my bridge baby Zookie would she be considered blue then ...I had her down as a dilute tortie ????

[Stuart]

Dis iz Tricky
I got Misty when He was Ickle, I named Him Misty because His coat was a Misty Bluey/Grey !!
Misty is GREY but sometimes (Depending on the Light, He has a Blue tinge ??)

so does that make Him Blue or Grey 

Ach, if in doubt, Sit on the Fence 

[Reynard]

They should do Gilly, the grey tabby is also known as the wild coat variant - look at pics of a Scottish wildcat i.e. Felis Silvestris Grampia and that's your basic grey mackrel tabby.

Grey is a SPECIFIC description of the tabby ticked hairs of the basic tabby coat pattern. Blue describes a completely DIFFERENT form of colouration.

[Tiggy's Mum]

Blimey, back to your corners, guys! I personally don't use the colour blue for any fur because well, blue is the colour of the sky or the thomson local cat.... But I'm not very "uppah class!"

Don't worry JS it's all in jest... I hope    Don't forget to vote 

[JackSpratt]

  Blimey, back to your corners, guys! I personally don't use the colour blue for any fur because well, blue is the colour of the sky or the thomson local cat.... But I'm not very "uppah class!"

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

My cat books dont tell me that 

[Tiggy's Mum]

A standard tabby is a grey tabby - find yourself some cat books and look it up. 

I don't need to get a book and look it up! The poll is not the technical definition of blue or grey - it's what colour are these cats    Grey seems to be the consensus of opinion at the moment 

Lilycat, Imogen is a beautiful grey tabby