Calico

"'The fun-loving Jester breed treats everything like a game.'""'Catz of the Calico breed are playful and loveable and will bounce happily up to you when called. The Calico is the performer Catz and will easily learn and perform tricks. Calicos love to chase and play with the mice and in general get along well with other Catz and friendly Dogz.'""'Catz of the Calico breed are playful, lovable, learn new tricks easily and come quickly when called.'""'Calicos are very playful Catz, and may even do tricks for treatz!'"Calicos (sometimes shortened to just Calis) are a breed of Cat. They were one of the original five breeds included with Catz, where they were known as Jester. Importing Jester into Petz II gives you a Calico.

The default Adoption Center name for Calicos in Petz II and beyond is Jester.

Markings
Calico coats pass on in "blocks" of connected ballz around the body, which are determined by the four basic Adoption Center varieties.

All first-generation Calicos have paintball spots, as little as 2 and as many as 23, with some different spots depending on which color variation they are. Like all original paint ball markings, these do not mutate without being hexed to do so. As with Dalmatian spots, they may be reduced or eliminated in higher-generation bred Petz.

Behavior
Calicos are cheerful, playful Catz. They frequently hold their eyelids at different heights, which may be frustrating for showing.

Improved Files

 * Black Mist Crittery: Fuzzy Calico with a fluffy Maine Coon-style tail.
 * Cargo: A file with paint ball patches linked to body color, allowing them to mutate together, available for Petz 4 and Petz 5. The patches will not "breed out" like the original Calico.
 * Corvus Corax: "Improved" Calico with fuzz and tweaked proportions.
 * Pawzative Attitude: Calicos with no tan patches.
 * Ratqueen Kennelz & Cattery: A Petz 5-only version without the paint ball color patches, but replaces the personality with the Russian Blue personality for easier showing.

Trivia

 * There are 24,576 possible unique Calico variations out of the Adoption Center.
 * Calicos are one of the breeds that had real-life stuffed toys created of them to coincide with the original Catz game. However, while it appears in commercials and on the toy packaging, the Jester plush never seems to have made it to retail.
 * Calicos are the only breed besides Chinchilla Persians to use  to make only 25% of Adoption Center Calicos male, imitating how real-life calico cats are almost always female. Purebred and mixed Calico Kittenz have the same 50/50 gender ratio as every other breed in the game.