Think you will find you are mistaken, the information was supplied by folk who breed and show cats. Calico is just another name (US) for a tortie and White.

Frankly I couldn't care less if she was rare, common or otherwise, I was merely trying to make a point that "rarity" can make some folk think they can cash in on it

Sure & wouldn't St Paddy his good self be turning in his grave at the very thought of it

Dont think I am velvet particulary as the calico is almost as black where I work, torbie is a American term, but at least in the uk we have the tortie, calico, and then the torbie, which clo has one, but it is very common for calicos to show tabby in their ginger or cream but its rarer to show it in their black, which to be a true torie tabby, it has to show them in both, I use to have a Calico and I thought she was a torbie at one point to

I would seriously question this "breeder" - they definitely don't know much about the Boxer breed

We dont have pedigrees for our two - that is the breeders choice, however they are very much pedigree Boxers. Their breeder supplies all White Boxer puppy owners with a history of parentage. Besides which - see below

I will let the cat breeders /exhibitors know that you think you know better than they do

http://fanciers.com/other-faqs/colors.html

Notice it mentions both colour of tabbies.

Also look so she is a tortie, or a Calico, not a torbie, but gorgeous anyways, they are one of my fav colours I have to say.

http://www.messybeast.com/tricolours.htm

She has tabby in her ginger, but not tabby in her black.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...2205247AAs2O5L


http://www.great-pictures-of-cats.com/calico-cats.html
Calico cats.

Torbie cat.

I'm not saying I know more, just that I believe her to be a calico, or a tortie, but not a Torbie, which has to have both colour tabbie in the coat to be a true torbie, I know that her type is unfornatly not rare, but your allowed to question the Boxer breeder because you know that White Boxers are pedigree, but I'm not allowed to question what you was told , anyway like I said, I'm sorry to tell you that, but she isn't a Torbie, well a true Torbie at least.

Getting back on track I still stand by not being the biggest fan of breed standards, I love dogs, but don't love how the breed standards can affect them, like not being able to give birth on their own, I think that when its common in a breed to not be able to do this, it should set alarm bells ringing, and when the head can be too small for the brain, or when I see dogs that have been bred, but have loose eye sockets don't know what to call it, but it doesn't look pleasing to my eye, I don't know how it feels from theirs, because of their breed standard, so I do think that people should be breeding towards something, so that the dogs are conformed, but I do like the dogs that people are trying to breed back to how they were traditionally, which in the cases where there is people going out of their way to do, its so not breed standard as it stands today, I'll use one of the breeds I love for this, the EBT, but as it stands, although I see the reason for breed standards, I am not the biggest fan of them.

'Lhamatian' (Lhasa Apso X Dalmatian) PUPPIES

now thats what i call rare

...or stupid...