Good pre-game nutrition should occur early and often. An ideal meal is carbohydrate rich, low-glycemic for a sustained release of energy into the bloodstream, palatable and well tolerated. A pre-game meal routine might look like this: Eat breakfast within the first hour after waking.
Tortoiseshell cats can be one of many breeds. These include the American shorthair, the British shorthair, the Oriental shorthair, the Persian, the Siamese, the Burmese, the Turkish Van, the colorpoint shorthair, the European shorthair, the Birman, the American bobtail, the Japanese bobtail, the Norwegian forest cat, the Maine coon cat, the Cornish rex, the Devon rex, the American curl, the Manx and the somali cat.
When learning about cat genetics it's probably a wise idea to start where the domestic cat started, with the tabby gene. The tabby gene is an amazingly diverse gene that can cause a variety of coat patterns, the most familiar of which is the striped tiger pattern we can see on many domestic cats, both pure-bred and not. Tabby comes in four distinct types. There are mackerel tabbies, classical tabbies, ticked tabbies, and spotted. Tabby can also be mixed with other marking genes to create cats that display both (i.e. tabby calicos, pointed tabbies, tabbies with white on their coat.) Below I will describe each.