More help for my genetics lab

sandtigress

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Hi guys! Thanks so much to all of you who helped me with pictures before. I've got another opportunity for TCS to help out my genetics class!
(Is this good teaching or am I just a lazy bum?
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I'm writing questions for their upcoming quiz, and our instructor wants us to do some cat paternity tests. I know a lot of you guys foster pregnant moms and their kittens, so could you give me a description of momma and resulting kittens so we can figure out what dad might have been? Features like color, any pointing (ie siamese), tail length, fur length, tabby striping, etc. would be appreciated. Thanks! You guys are so helpful!
 
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lol Any mods want to move this to Preganant cat and kittens for me? Didn't think to put it there at first.
 

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Well... we don't know who momma was, but you might find this to be an interesting litter that got abandoned where I work last year:

3 boys.

1- White with gray spotting, tabby stripes on the spots. Short furred. Long tail.

2- Black and white tuxedo. Short furred. Long tail.

3- Pale cream with dark points. Short to medium furred. Long tail.

Aside from coloring, these kittens all had the same shape to their heads and ears. As adults, they all have long legs and faces and slightly "bulbous" noses.

probably not too useful, but a fair example of a litter that probably had two fathers.
 

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Ok I've got a really good one for your genetics class - maybe you can figure it out.

Mother is tortie/white, SH, oriental build. Her mother was calico. Mother's siblings were black/white and red/white.

Her one and only litter was 5 blue/grey kittens with white. At 4 weeks the kittens were STILL blue but had darker points (like siamese) - point color was seal point - not blue point.

At 3 months the kittens turned into black/white with faint point color. Its a possibility of the kittens being smoke (poor quality) but the base color is not black - more of a light greyish.

I've had black smoke cornish rexes and the smoke color is like that - greyish and not whitish. Also my smoke rexes had tabby striping on their necks and these kittens also have the ghost tabby stripes on the neck.

Let me know what your class comes up with for my kittens.
 

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Mother is a dilute calico, short haired, medium tail.

Kitten 1 is a male orange tabby, short haired, medium tail.
Kitten 2 is a male orange tabby and white, short haired, medium tail.
Kitten 3 is a female calico (not dilute), short haired, medium tail.
Kitten 4 is a male, grey tabby and white, short haired, medium tail.
 

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Here is the info on Aristotle's littermates as sent by his foster mom Andeshan/Angela. His birth mother, Samona, is white Angora. Daddy is unknown, but two of his brothers could give a hint.


3/13/05 10:10 pm White with small black marking on back of head (Lightning)
3/13/05 10:40 pm orange with white legs and face (Boots)
3/14/05 12:16 am white with black circle spot on back of head (born breech) (Mirajuu)
3/14/05 12:50 am pure white kitten no other markings (born breech) (Ari)
3/14/05 1:30 am orange with white legs and face (hard labor) (Stitch)

Ari is a short hair and the other two white ones are long hair. Lightning has longer hair than Mirajuu. I do not know about the orange ones and Angela is out of town for a few days so I can't contact her.

Give me a moment and I'll try and remember Solomon and Sheba's 2nd litter details. This was back in 1980!
 

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Mother was white persian. Father was an odd eyed white persian. Previous litters of this couple were a white persian, a red persian, and a blue persian.

This litter had Solomon - a B&W bicolor, short hair. Medium length tail, large build. Littermates were a red persian and a blue persian.

The breeder was trying to see if he could breed for odd eyed white persians. But the odd eyed female he acquired never came into heat. The female used did not have odd eyes. (Do not recall if I ever heard what color her eyes were.)

Days before Solomon was ready to pick up, my Dad received a stray from a co-worker. Named Sheba, she was short hair B&W tuxedo female of small build. Head was round, but feet were small and dainty. She grew to be about 1/2 of Solomon's size. (Which didn't keep her from beating the tar out of him the morning he stayed outside all night!
) There was a blue and white bi-color short hair in the first litter - one kitten only. Second litter consisted of 5 kittens.
Astrid - Mostly blue and white bicolor, short hair
Aurora - B&W tuxedo, long hair
Betelgeuse - B&W tuxedo, long hair
Nostradamus - Black short hair
and... Oh, no, I can't remember the 5th kitten!

Anyway, tails were all of medium length as I recall.

Oh well, hope I have offered something you can use. If I can remember the 5th one, I'll let you know.
 

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Sugartoes is a short haired tortie-no white.

She had one black, faint striping showing, few single white hairs on chest, no white spot. (No pic avail)
One long haired solid gray.

One SH orange striped.

One SH brown tiger stripe with orange striped spotches (torbie?).

One SH tortie, no white.

Two dads, maybe?
(Note, Twinkie, now known as Rusty, is in more pics. But it is all one orange boy!)
 

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Miss Kitty, Festus' Mom, was a brown tiger like her.



She had 4-all short haired like her. She had a brown tiger (Festus), a gray striped, a solid gray, and a black. No one had any white.
 

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mother's a longhaired grey tabby (cream& white stripes, white "locket" on neck ) (petite build).

kittens are (in order):
one orange-brown tabby female (black stripes, white "locket" on neck) (petite build)

one long-haired grey tabby male with white paws, belly, chest, and white on bottom half of his face) (pale cream&white stripes) (medium build)

one medium-haired pale grey tabby male (cream stripes) (large build)
 
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Originally Posted by gayef

OK, I've got a relatively easy one for you ...

Mother is a Seal Point who carries lilac

We have:

2 Blue Point Boys
1 Seal Point boy
1 Seal Point Girl

Can you guess what the Daddy is?
lol That's not fair, we know who the daddy is! Your Lexus and Tonka make beeaaaautiful babies!
 
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Thanks guys, these are great! I might share a few with my other classmates if you all don't mind. You make my job as a TA a million times easier!
 

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Sand.

I do hope you will consider mine to figure out. Most of what is given for examples is relatively easy - I can answer them
But my litter still has me stumped!

Email in private if you wish or on the board. Thanks.
 

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Originally Posted by GoldenKitty45

Sand.

I do hope you will consider mine to figure out. Most of what is given for examples is relatively easy - I can answer them
But my litter still has me stumped!

Email in private if you wish or on the board. Thanks.
How in the world can you tell who the Daddy is or what he looks like just by the descriptions? That's pretty cool!

I'm pretty sure Cleo had an affair with the boy next door, but, none of the kittens look like him.Do you have a link or something I can read up on this kind of thing?
Oh, just so I'm not hijacking a thread here is a link with pictures of Mom and babies for the original poster.

http://photobucket.com/albums/b82/sherrys_family/
 

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We trapped this mom while she was pregnant. She's a grey/white tabby with green eyes, and a dark spot on her nose.


These are the kittens in the litter. All of them grey/grey & white, one grey/white tabby. They all have average length tails. The all grey one, and one of the mostly white ones may be long/medium haired, but it's hard to tell yet. All of them have brown eyes, except the all grey one who has grey eyes. The first two kittens pictured have a dark spots on their noses like their mom. If you decide to try to figure them out, I'd be interested to hear what you come up with! Good luck!
 
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