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AlbertCat

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10. what's a torbie?

Wed Apr 6, 2016, 10:55 PM

Apr 2016

a typo of tabby?

But here's some nomenclature:

"A group of cats is referred to as a "clowder" or a "glaring",[40] a male cat is called a "tom" or "tomcat"[41] (or a "gib",[42] if neutered), an unaltered female is called a "queen",[43] and a juvenile cat is referred to as a "kitten". The male progenitor of a cat, especially a pedigreed cat, is its "sire",[44] and its female progenitor is its "dam".[45] In Early Modern English, the word 'kitten' was interchangeable with the now-obsolete word 'catling'.[46]" (from Wiki)

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