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Getting a turtle (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to c/cat@lemmy.world

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[-] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 11 points 5 months ago

ok ok ok ok ok ok ok

there is literally a cat fur type

called tortoise shell

the joke wrote itself but we had to reinvent the wheel here

still updooting for mr skeltal

[-] lemmyng@piefed.ca 6 points 5 months ago

I was going to make a "I said tortie, not turtle" joke, but ya beat me to it.

[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 points 5 months ago

I think the english call it "calico"

[-] lemmyng@piefed.ca 9 points 5 months ago

According to the Wikipedia article I just read (which now makes me an expert), calico is a specific kind of tortie. All calicos are tortoiseshell but not all tortoiseshell are calico.

[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 5 points 5 months ago

ah, alright, thank you expert

[-] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 3 points 5 months ago

the english probably call them puzzly wuzzly fluffer beasts or some shit who care bout them

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