Orange Female Cat?

No one has mentioned if their red tabbies are longhair/medium hair or shorthairs...

I am really curious about this.

OK. So, the HS here frequently has orange females & they still don't get adopted! That's sad.

Originally Posted by Beach Bum

Liza,

We are compelled to ask,

1. When you say the young female is orange, do you mean 100%, or at least predominately, orange?
2. If so, and she is a clone of her dad "hairwise," if "hairwise" includes coloration, then it would follow that her dad was at least predominately orange.

If so, then one must question whether dad was really a Turkish Van.

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what i mean is, yes, shes is 95% orange, with some creme on her belly. What i meant by a clone of her dad is she is medium hair, and has "sidburn" like face like he does.

Dad's mom was a turkish van, and dad was a turkish van, and he is dark orange and white.

here is Dad...

The lady I work with has a female orange kitty, she is shorthair and as far as I know, has no noticeable white markings. No white chin or tummy or anything of that sort, as I inspected her closely the first time I saw her. She is just gorgeous though.

this is tessie, my orange female.....

I would call Blaze a short to medium length haired cat.

JoJo is medium to long hair. She has some creme on her belly, and a white chin... but striped dark and light orange... here she is waiting for the printer... she's such a dork. Of course, so is Jack.

I have an orange female feral and proof times 4 that she is not sterile!
I assumed it was a male until she brought the babies out.
My best friend bought me live trap at a yard sale today. I'll be working on getting Mommy trapped for a TNR and hopefully get the babies to a local no-kill shelter.
Wish me luck!

Red females are uncommon but not very very rare - all you need to create them is a red male and tortie female or a red male and a red female. You need two red color genes (X) to create a red female.

The red and white male pictured is NOT a true Turkish Van - those are longhair cats and only have color on the head and tail. He's just a nice looking red tabby and white - not a van at all. Don't know why you think he is.

I knew an orange female stray once. She was a longhair, sort of "champagne" color light orange.

I have had 2 shorthaired red tabby boys. They had the softest fur, and lovely purrsonalities, very mellow. Webb, the green eyed one was a large cat, and Leo, the gold eyed one was huge, at 22 lbs at his biggest. Almost no fat on either of them.

I saw one at the vet office, also heard the kitty was "rare". She was kept by a staff member and was spayed.

We had a female orange kitten when one of the cats we had gave birth. I didn't know they were rare. I knew that male tortise shell cats were rare and male calico cats too.

I had an orange female before. I think she was short hair, but I am not sure. I will post a picture of her tomorrow, my internet is being really slow right now.

Daisy says that of course ginger girls are special

WE have a ginger female in at the moment, she must be a shorthair as I get told otherwise. I know of 2 people on another forum who have shorthair ginger girls.

Red females aren't particularly rare. Like someone said earlier, you simply need for both parents to pass on the gene for red, which is why there tends to be more red males than females (males only need for one parent to be red). A lot seems to depend on local gene pools - if there are lots of red cats in an area then red females will be quite common. A work colleague of mine has 2 red females, and an ex colleague has recently got one red female kitten. As to the shorthair/longhair thing - I don't believe the gene for longhair has anything to do with the gene for red hair? Jaffa is a short haired red tabby, for the record (and the 3 female cats mentioned above are all short haired).

Liza says,

what i mean is, yes, shes is 95% orange, with some creme on her belly. What i meant by a clone of her dad is she is medium hair, and has "sideburn" like face like he does.

Dad's mom was a turkish van, and dad was a turkish van, and he is dark orange and white.

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Now we understand, Liza. We thought perhaps you meant "hairwise" to include coloration, and of course a true Turkish Van will not be predominately a color other than white.