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Trish Coyne
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Location: Parshall, Colorado
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 Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:44 am Post subject: male or female? |
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| is it true that you can tell a cat's gender by the color of its fur? |
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Harvey Simmons
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Location: DeKalb, Illinois
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:09 am Post subject: |
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I've read somewhere that orange-furred cats are almost always male.
KEY PHRASE: "ALMOST ALWAYS"
Therefore, you can't be 100% certain of a cat's gender just by checking its fur color. |
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Michelle Pilver
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Location: Pembroke, Massachusetts
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here is something i came across with over the web regarding this issue:
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The classic two color cat is the tortoiseshell which is normally a black cat with varying shades of red, either patched or gently intermingles. If it also has tabby markings, it is called a patched tabby or torbie. If the tortoiseshell has white, it is called a tortoiseshell and white. If the cat is predominately white with patches of black and red, it is a calico.
To add to the fun, instead of black, one can have chocolate or cinnamon with varying shades of red (these are chocolate torties or cinnamon torties) and can also come in tabby patterns and with white (yes you can have chocolate calicos and cinnamon calicos). Now the dilute of tortoiseshell is called blue-cream (a blue cat with varying shades of cream either patched or gently intermingles). you can have tabby patterns and with white and, yes, you can have a dilute calico! The dilute of chocolate tortie is lilac-cream and the dilute of cinnamon tortie is fawn-cream. Yes, they all come in tabby patterns and with white.
So, any of the above tortoiseshell, blue-cream, chocolate tortie, lilac-cream, cinnamon tortie, fawn-cream with or without tabby patterns with or without white are all generally females.
Every once in a while something goes strange genetically and you do get a male of one of the above. However, that is quite rare and these males are usually sterile |
i hope this helps, Trish! |
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Harry Sorum
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Location: Escatawpa, Mississippi
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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that's a very interesting information mich, i never thought that cats follow some sort of color coding scheme concerning their gender.  |
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Harvey Simmons
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Location: DeKalb, Illinois
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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| So, any of the above tortoiseshell, blue-cream, chocolate tortie, lilac-cream, cinnamon tortie, fawn-cream with or without tabby patterns with or without white are all generally females. |
I think this confused me more than ever. How many colors are there anyway?  |
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Susie Lefler
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Location: Boca Raton, Florida
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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i hear ya Harvey. i'm not color blind, but some of these colors mentioned i don't think i have already seen myself.  |
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Petmeister
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Location: Queens, New York
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What's a tortie anyway?  |
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Melrose Clement
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Location: Chandler, Arizona
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:47 am Post subject: |
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i heard calico cats are lucky. they're called money cats. calicos usually have coats of black, white, and orange or red mixes.
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Harvey Simmons
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Location: DeKalb, Illinois
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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| It must be really hard to determine the gender of Calico cats then, huh? |
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