I love this thread! I had no idea Torite cats had this type of reputation!

I have a black/ginger/white Tortie who is a little terror, fights with her sister, claws at carpets and doors, pees anywhere if her litter tray is not immaculate. Occasionally she turns onto a little sook and wants her belly scratched but she'll soon swipe at you when she's had enough!! lol

i wouldn't change her though, she is the most cutest thing ever and i love her to bits!

I like torties. I've never had one though.

I've got 2 very vocal, naughty bwhities though. Black and white tuxedos. My daughter calls them the bwhities.

I don't think personality is actually linked to colour - it's just a myth! I have a tortie and white and she is very gentle and quiet, while we used to have a female black cat who had what might be described as a "tortie personality"!

My vet has christened Martha The Tortie Terror. I've had cats all my life but she's entirely different from them all. After she was spayed she shot out of the carrier like a looney, jumped up on the extractor fan in the kitchen and burst her stitches. Back to the vets where she went insane, yowling the place down while they tried to sedate her. They stapled the wound and gave me a loan of a puppy crate to keep her from jumping/climbing. Woke up in the morning to find she'd got her lampshade off and bitten her staples out so that was another trip to the vet.

Here she is giving me the Medusa stare from within the puppy crate.

Sums it up really...

She's also fallen in the bath has a destructive streak and sleeps like this. She's a weirdo but I loves her.

I have a torbie. She's tabby face, front, legs, and tummy but her back is a lovely tortie - dark brown, light brown and red. She was an abandoned cat that adopted me 18 months ago and I am now her slave. She actually answers to the name 'Mental' or 'Weirdo' more than her other name. She's really loving and constantly wants to sit on my knee or puts her paws around my neck and actually tries to purse her lips to kiss me on the cheek! She also loves kitchen cupboards, shelves, sleeps in my wardrobe at times.

When she first moved in and I didn't have a litter tray, she went in my bathroom and did a poo next to the toilet on the tiles, and then ripped a bit of toilet roll off and put it over her poo

Her latest thing which I reckon she's done for a while but I didn't realise is drinking out of my glass of water next to my bed I woke up a few weeks ago to this lapping noise and there she was. Didn't batter an eyelid and continues to do it now. She hardly drinks out of her bowl and will go right to my bedroom to find the glass. I think it's because she thinks it's my water and wants to share. I now have to have a seperate flask type glass that she can't get in!

Technically Martha's a torbie too. Ginger stripes with black hair tips and splodges. She's incredibly affectionate, to the point of snuggling under the duvet with her head on my shoulder and other than the usual cat face rub she likes to include ramming her nose up your nostril. Which is a bit disconcerting at 3am when you're fast asleep and she has a random *love on my human* purr attack.

I also take a bottle of water to bed instead of a glass. She also eats anything available. Pizza, nan bread, broccoli, curly kale and porridge to date.

We need pics of your Weirdo!

mine does exactly the same with the face rubs, ramming nostrils, and snuggling under the duvet with her head on my shoulder. However she's a picky eater which you wouldn't think as she's a bit porky - even though I don't overfeed her!

She's a bit of a buggar for killing huge water rats and presenting them dead on my doorstep. She brought one in the other week to my horror Last summer I came home from work to find a dead budgie on my doorstep

She also has a fetish for bags and loves to climb in them as can be seen here

She's now got a life of riley and is often lazing about

And she certainly fancies herself

And she loves the sun

Haha that's so funny, bless her!

She's a similar colour to my little terror - I noticed the little tear trails coming away from the eyes which are identical to mine.

If I only I could train this one to sleep like that rather than all over me

Don't be misled Biffo. She starts like that then ends up under the covers with her head on my shoulder for convenient 3am nose up nostril ramming. Pics of your wee terror?

nw0307 she's lovely! More tabby than tortie but she looks like a proper snugglepuss. Martha loves bags too.

She's lovely - the image of my Millie who's a tabby, the vet told me Millie was part tortoiseshell too, but she's definitely more tabby.

All the photos on this thread are just so cute.

I too have a naughty tortie ( the dark variety) - aka the Ginger Ninja

She's deaf and brain damaged - bad, mad but absolutely not sad!

All my other cats hate her as she's a merciless bully - she'd have an ASBO if they existed for cats. She's great with people though and I wouldn't be without her!

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Extreme sleeping - mine does that - see post above for one example and below....

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How can that be comfortable?

BWAHAHAHA! I thought Martha was bonkers. Your Ginger Ninja is very like Martha, right down to the large ginger stripey patch on the chest, stripey tail tip and one orange paw.

I have a naughty black and white 7month old kitten, Who is currently cleaning her lady bits while sitting on my nice clean clothes...after she had just stolen my lunch.

Hahaha, my Dinah is just like that. She's a calico tortie - she looks like a bloody painting of a kitten rather than a real kitten, she's absolutely gorgeous. But batshit insane. She never goes anywhere at less than a run, always with an extreme air of purpose, and every jump has a different kind of "brrrrp!" noise to accompany it.

She slept on my bed when I first got her but this had to stop because every morning at 6am she'd wake me up by very delicately biting me on the nose or eyelid. Now she sleeps in the living room so I can unlock the cat flap for the big cats at night, and every morning when you first go in she bolts up to you and makes this crazy peeping noise (my friend's canary makes the same noise) until she reckons you've cuddled her enough by way of a hello.

She steals food all the time. She's about the size of a dinner plate still so sometimes she puts all her bloody paws in it while she thieves. She loves shredding newspapers and tissues, and chasing pens and pencils around, and one of her favourite mischievous pastimes is knocking anything and everything on to the floor so the dog destroys it, then hoarding and playing with the broken/ripped/shredded bits. The dog has a habit of de-stuffing his stuffed toys and Dinah hoards the fluff in her little cat bed and luxuriates in it.

She also can't resist a wagging or swishing tail, and so annoys the life out of the dog and the older cats by zooming out of nowhere to attack their tails. She likes to take a running leap at the dog's head as well, you know that way with all four paws splayed for attack? And when the dog goes outside and wants to come back in he puts his head through the cat flap and barks, I went to get him in after this the other day and caught her doing such a leap on to the top of the cat-flap, slamming it in puppy's face.

Relaxing on the turntable.
Checking out the snake.
Intense stare.
On her scratching post.
Fighting the dog's head.
On my brother's schoolbag.
With her stash of fluff and a stolen dishcloth.
In her bed in a bed.

/crazy cat lady

Bwahaha! Martha is a food thief too, she eats pretty much anything. She's also far more vocal than any of my other cats have been. Poor Lola's fluffy tail is like a beacon to her, she can't resist pouncing! Funny you should mention knocking things on to the floor...she's always doing that! Random bits and bobs of the kids that I've found and put on the bookcase while I hoover, coins, hair clips, Moshlings...All have to be knocked off.

Aw, she's gorgeous!

Hehehe. What on earth are Moshlings? None of my other cats have been food thieves, so it's really weird to sit down for a munch and just hear this incoming "brrrrrrp" as she charges towards you. And she will eat anything if you let her, even things like hot curry. I never thought my dog would have an excuse to act put upon, being an unholy terror himself, but any time he comes over for a bit of attention and starts wagging his tail..."brrrrrp!" attack!

By far the funniest thing she does is sit on the windowsill chasing flies which are on the other side. I just heard this rhythmic thumping the other day, looked over and saw her doing a pretty convincing impression of these guys. For about five straight minutes.

OMG...bwahaha!

Moshlings are the Moshi Monsters' pets. According to my 9 year old anyway...

Having just seen the pictures of gorgeous Dinah, I don't believe a word of it. Lies! Filthy lies! That wee face... <3

That's terrific...what a girl