On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 06:10:59PM +0100, Peter Lacus wrote: > Hello Frank, > > >Anyway, Shel's right: it's those eyes!! The cat seems to have taken > >on a rather knowing, almost human quality. Lovely dof. Wonderful > >portrait, no matter the species. > > thank you for the nice words. > > >What kind of cat is it, BTW? Hard to tell without seeing the body and > >the pattern of the fur. > > unfortunately, I don't know much about cats, so perhaps you can judge > something from another shot I just uploaded: > > http://www.misenet.sk/Timur/reloaded.html > > Warning: for information purposes only! ;-)
That's the basic generic "brown tabby" - the default shape and colouring for cats before breeders start selecting variations. Many of the wild breeds (Norwegian Forest Cat, Scottish Wildcat) look just like that (though it's a bad idea to try to stroke them) Timur is a wonderful example of how the tabby stripes can break up into spots; I've got one of those in my current batch of fosters. We call her the Ocelittle (she's too small to be an Ocelot).
