He will be beautiful, Robin. I doubt his coat will darken substantially if he is this light. Frankly, the subtle shadings are not so typical of marmalade tabbies and desirable. I have heard them called with different names for that shade, but can't recall what they are now. My male is a very intense marmalade. His name is Dietz and he wanted to say something.

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Marmalades seem to have an whole different personality than other cats. All of them I have known have, anyway. Playful, gregarious and lain back. They do get into trouble however because of those very attributes.

Hey back attcha Dietz (Michelle will LOVE his name). Boy did you ever describe Murphy! He greeted us with playful curiosity, but can handle Maggie's stupidity with a puzzled laid back look. His biggest problem is, he wants to engage a cat to play who loves to... literally... hug the couch. I'll have to take a picture of Maggie doing that; it's pretty silly and distinctly her. It's ok that he'll be light colored, he's great whatever he looks like. I can tell he's gonna have a friendly love me kind of personality.

Looks like a great cat with a great future. Steve in Baltimore County.

I have one of that tribe, Taffy, bottle-raised from three weeks old on. He seems to still believe I am his mother.
He is more ginger than orange, I think, maybe the strong sun here fades his fur? In summer, when all the vegetation is tawny, he blends right in and can be invisible right in from of you.

No Lilo. Cats who go invisible are called Cheshire Cats. LOL.

Ginger is one of the names I remembered the orange tabbies being called. I think there are a few more. They are special cats, no? I think so. Dietz travels with a back pack. He has changed homes many times. He started out as a feral alley cat whom my mother rescued. My father, who always indulged my mother on pets, sort of indicated enough was enough, so Dietz went to live on my daughter's farm. He ended up here, and was a barn cat, whom my big grey tabby Hobbes intimidated terribly. Poor Dietz ended up living in a milk can (the ones you put raw milk in to have a dairy processors pick up), or up on the chicken coop roof to get away from Hobbes. Mother rescued Dietz again and took him back to the city. Then when my mother passed away, he came back here to live in his advanced age (at LEAST SIXTEEN, PROBABLY MORE LIKE SEVENTEEN) as a totally inside cat and companion to my little blue. He is still a character and aside from the gangliness and scruffiness of a geriatric feline is still a rip.

Don't count on his coat darkening it could stay light. I wish I had known our Ferrell as a kitten but I expect he looked like Murphy. Here he is all grown up and a beautiful pale buff color. He's an orange tabby,and look at the two of them together.

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Ok........so far we have Rob, Lilo, myself and Marda who have orange tabbies. Notice they are all male. I have only known one orange tabby who wasn't, but she thought she was.

This is pretty nifty that so many of us have what isn't really a common cat. Who else has one, and is it a boy?

most orange tabbies are male..I read it's about a 80/20 ratio. I knew calico cats were almost always female but didn't realize how many more orange males than females there are.

I am so darned envious... beautiful cats. LOL at the Cheshire Cat comment, Suzy. I wish I weren't so afraid of falling due to cats coiling around my feet, otherwise I'd have one or possibly more. Love hearing about the personalities/ antics of all your pets. josh

I've had quite a few orange tabbies over the years. Only one was female. Our current orange tabby is Sammie. He's a bit darker than most ya'll have shown so far. He was the smallest in his in his litter and had to have a liver shunt when he was very young. I adopted him from out vet who was finding homes for a litter that were dropped off at her office. They nominated me for one of the kittens and we ended up with Sammie. He is quite a character. He's quite small and has always stood up to the bigger cats. He is one of the three 'bachelors' that stay up in our 2 room bedroom suite. He has his own small pillow between Christy and my pillow [it sits lengthwise] and he keeps those two big greys off of it for the most part. After I come to bed he usually goes down to sleep between my feet/legs. Just lately, after 3 or 4 years of being together he has been letting Big Fluffy groom him and kiss on him. [That's FluffHead peeking in the side of the pic. lol. He's such a nosebag] Old age is mellowing him I guess. Smiles. He's 13.

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We had an orange tabby (rescue) who was pregnant. She had 3 male tabbies, two stayed with us, one with my son. The mother cat was real small, she never got bigger then about a half grown cat. Her offspring were each different. Wooly Bear had long hair, cuddly and laid back. Pete, who was with my son, was very dominant and demanding, hair going every which way and cowed the large dogs. Thumper (because he tapped you when he wanted something) was my watchcat. Hair was short, almost like a siamese and he needed to know everything which was going on out and inside and notified you if something was interesting or amiss.
Murphy looks adorable, you just want to cuddle that little guy.

Did you know that a cat can produce offspring from different sires in one pregnancy?

Yes, Blackie, the feral feed-store cat is Jasmyn's and Maximus' mother, and if you see the two, you can tell that Blackie sure got around. Neither one looks like Mom though LOL

Same thing is of course true with human fraternal twins. They can have different dads.

Yep...remember reading one of my Mama's rag sheets when I was at her house about a case like that in England when the husband of the woman concerned got a little suspicious when a pair of twins arrived who were obviously of different ethnic backgrounds. Of course periodicals like the National Enquirer loves stories like that. It's just more common in cats because of so many eggs are released, and they're not noted for being particularly monogamous.

We've got two marmalade cats - Duke & Pumpkin. Both are male & both are very loving, but not too happy with any of the other cats in the house. I think they'd like to be kings of the castle all on their own.

I have 2 males that are in the orange color range. Chuckie is pale almost blond and Opie is reddish. My son has 3 various shades of orange males,my mother one,my sister 5 or 6(barn cats)...can ya tell the obsession runs in the family?
I will always live with at least one orange male cat. There just something about them that draws me to them.
I will admit that Opie does NOT have a nice temperment. Must be a redhead thing........

I had a wonderful red marmalade Manx - Chipper was his name and he lived to be 18. He was the best cat I ever had, very affectionate and full of life. Not at all aggressive with humans, dogs or other cats. My vet told me that was a sign of self confidence in an animal.

Rob - I hope you the LF enjoy many years with this boy.

Congratulations!

My big orange fuzzball is on the 'puter desk purring up a storm as I post. He looks like a Maine coon cat, and may be part. The person we got him from (for free) now raises Maine Coons. (Not for free). He is my special spoiled brat baby. He always comes to great me with a "purting" sound. He sleeps under the covers as close as he can get. Follows me around. We alwasy had orange cats when I was a kid, and they were all male.

I also think that Tuxedo cats have a special personality, too. We currently have a male and when the kids were little we had female. Big cat. Both of my children's first word after mama and dada was Tessie, the cat's name.

"Orange dilute" is the color description my vet gives for our Buddy cat -- he is that pale ginger color and resembles Dietz.

thumper, flounder who is a manx, buffy, gimpy, rainbow, wendy, cairo, haystack,phoenix and aslan.
how many does that make? of the 10, two are females. i never thought about whether or not they act like males, but they all are very friendly and certainly do get into trouble. and of the 10, 7 are what i would call 'orange'. 3 are buff colored, much like your pix, rob333.
dietz looks an awful lot like my phoenix, who is a sugar cat.
another thing i noticed, altho this probably fits into the 'mischievious' catagory, is that all my orange/buff cats will give me a swat as i pass by them, anneliese. some with claws out and some with them in. gets kinda hairy when they are all in a row...LOLOL
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a form of running the gauntlet, I like it. Great personalitie.

Cats and food bring us out don't they? Murph has this funny kind of talking mew that I am interested in hearing in full voice; it's double every time. A sort of mew-MEW!, like "I mean it! Pay attention to me, right now." Which of course, I ignore completely.

Georgeann,years ago you posted a photo of one of the cutest wildest looking kittens I've ever seen. I'm wondering if it was Gimpy.Could he be the one I'm thinking of?

no, that was little foot. grey with a white lightning strike running up his head.
rob333, it always amazes me how every cat sounds different to it's caregiver. if i hear a cat meow in the house i can almost always tell who it is. 99% of the time anyway.
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If he had round glasses, he'd be a feline version of Harry Potter.

harry potter??
funny thing is, he doesnt look anything like that now.
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