Torti-tude is totally real!!!



I'm fortunate, Sassy is a sweet little bugger for the most part and loves people. However if you squirt her for being on the counter she'll lay down her ears, swat at you and turn her butt as if to say 'ok squirt me here', then she jumps down only to go right back up there 1 minute later, this goes on all day.

Sabrina has a bit more of the torti-tude, she prefers my hubby, but does like other people when she wants to, and can get fairly ornery if she doesn't want to be picked up, she's more flighty of the 3 sibs.

However it isn't always confined to just the torti coloring, Josh (brother to my two torties) is a little spitfire and heck to handle at times, he's a torti in personality if not color anyways. lol

My mom owns a torti, and she's ALL Torti-tude, complete with hissing and biting if she doesn't get her way, but she does get very attatched to certain people and gets very lovey with them only.

We have a tortie that lives at our hospital and she musta just got the coloring because she's the most obnoxiously affectionate cat you've ever seen!! She gives head butts, kisses and when you pick her up she wraps her paws around your neck and literally gives you a hug. She loves everyone and I've never heard her hiss or growl and she's never swatted anyone. I'm thinking her coloring must be an illusion because she acts so sweet.

Based on the hundreds of cats I've dealt with in my 6 1/2 years working at the hospital, if the cat is a tortie we automatically use caution until we decipher it's personality.

Calico's can frequently be of a similar purrrsonality however not to the extent or frequency we see in torties.