Is there any such thing as a "tortietude"...

[Anikaca77]

Here are my torties.

Ashley is 3 yrs old and Fiona is 4 months old. Ashley has the tort attitude going but Fiona so far is very loving and wants attention although she's not coming to her name or listening so she is being just like Ashley in that regards.

[kb2yjx]

The very first cat I adopted(way back in 1988), was a WHITE TORTIE. Miss BooBoo Kitty quickly taught me what tortitude was all about!!! For 16 yrs, she was my BEST friend. Now, Hayley, a black tortie, is at our house. She is my husband's best friend, and I am despised!!! Then to round things out, there is Nimet, a lovely calico. We once participated in a study about cats and their colours. It was NO suprise to find out that the ORANGE cat is the MOST sensitive....

[DJFyrewolf36]

My MIL is now caring for Pandora, the only tortie Ive had the pleasure/displeasure (depending on the day ) of being around for an extended period of time. To give you an idea of her tortitude her nickname is micro-psyco. She lives up to her name in SPADES! Unfortuneatly, she did not get along well with my other kitties and my MILs kitties seem to be tolerant of her swatting, hissy moments.

Tortitude is very very very real! Although I bet you are finding that out

Give that cute tortie of yours a hug for me, if she allows it that is!

[rosethecopycat]

My Siamese Tortie girl, Bella has no Tortitude at all!

Unless you count the fact that she is easily insulted, and can hold a grudge.

[rbrowne222]

I'm almost 50 and have had cats all my life. I'm a total "cat person." I thought that I knew all there is to know about cats. Then I got hoodwinked into adopting this pitiful little tortie. Best thing that ever happened to me!! What a lesson in humility! She owns the house, and I live to serve her! She loves me fiercely -- she even jumped on the one other cat in the world that she tolerates because she thought the other cat was trying to hurt me. But she does hold a grudge. Several months ago, I accidentally stepped on her paw while I was filling her food dish. She put me on her poop-list for weeks! She still runs when she hears me get the container out to fill her dish again. I don't think that a tortie should be someone's first cat. But she was a God-send to me. I needed fierce love and laughter and puzzlement -- and it all came in a little black and orange package. She was a foundling - skinny and burned paws from the pavement of the back road she was found on. She was past pitiful...so I searched for a name for her to grow into. I found it online: Sonsy. It's a Scottish world for buxom and healthy. She's still kinda small, but her tortitude is "sonsy" enough to carry her.

[GILL]

YESTortitude is real. We have almost every color andhair length and the TOTIE'S are thier own breed. It seems that the darker the colors the more the attitude. Penny is the talk to the paw girl, Boots is "yo can pet when I want you too, Precious is I will sit on your shoulder when I want to and you WILL PET, Sweety "don't come near me", and Dobi " stop I'm here too be petted - now"
When ET was with us she was the pinical of Tortitude and she was big enough too enforce it.
If I sit to watch TV Demetri, MIts or Egypt will come up for some loving. But when Prcious comes evryone must go or get growled at and/or get wacked.

[smokey the elder]

In the Cat dictionary next to the word "tortietude" one might find a picture of Bosun! She can be a b.... at times...well, most of the time!