OP didn’t say “tortie”. They said tortoise shell pattern. (Well, they implied that.) The pattern of dots on the cat’s belly does indeed look kind of like a tortoise shell.
Tortie is just shorthand for tortoiseshell, which the belly isn’t. She’s a very pretty cat, but words have meanings and she doesn’t have tortoiseshell pattern fur.
This is just kinda obstinate though. Tortoiseshell in the context of cats obviously refers to the fur pattern. To assume otherwise is odd. And just because that’s the kind of tortoiseshell you’re thinking of doesn’t mean the pattern isn’t also named after a tortoiseshell.
OP didn’t say “tortie”. They said tortoise shell pattern. (Well, they implied that.) The pattern of dots on the cat’s belly does indeed look kind of like a tortoise shell.
Tortie is just shorthand for tortoiseshell, which the belly isn’t. She’s a very pretty cat, but words have meanings and she doesn’t have tortoiseshell pattern fur.
I’m not talking about the color variant (which doesn’t look like a toirtoise at all, really). OP’s cat’s belly looks like a literal tortoise shell.
This is just kinda obstinate though. Tortoiseshell in the context of cats obviously refers to the fur pattern. To assume otherwise is odd. And just because that’s the kind of tortoiseshell you’re thinking of doesn’t mean the pattern isn’t also named after a tortoiseshell.