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Bi-color is OK but not tri-color!Originally Posted by dawnofsierra
I've always found this fact so interesting, genetics are amazing! Are we counting bi-color in our poll or solid only?
Bi-color is OK but not tri-color!Originally Posted by dawnofsierra
I've always found this fact so interesting, genetics are amazing! Are we counting bi-color in our poll or solid only?
I've also heard that orange females are becoming more common than they used to be. However in the last 8 years I've had 13 orange ferals and only 1 of them was female.Originally Posted by sarahp
The animal attendant from the shelter I volunteer at said that she's been noticing more orange females in the last couple of years. She's been doing this job for 15 years so has seen a LOT of cats, and is just noticing a bit of a change. Interesting huh?
We had a strong red cat presence in my old neighborhood. It was farm land and home to a LOT of feral cats. The feral litters were mostly red males and tri-color girls (mostly torbies but the occassional calico). I always wondered if the 2 were closely related genetically - the girls get the added black color that the males didn't. Over the years we had 4 female reds and countless red males. The remainder of the females with the exception of a single black, a single grey/white and a single brown tabby, were always tri-colors.Originally Posted by zak&rocky
Just thought I'd add this... I'm 99 % sure that Cookie & Suzie are littermates. He is an orange tabby and she is a torbie, except for this orange nose of hers.
I think the one/more than one choice may skew the results. With "most" people who have one or two cats, the results may be different than with our group...some of whom have LOTS of kitties. So showing one vs some could be one girl and 8 boys! LOL!Originally Posted by Momofmany
We had a strong red cat presence in my old neighborhood. It was farm land and home to a LOT of feral cats. The feral litters were mostly red males and tri-color girls (mostly torbies but the occassional calico). I always wondered if the 2 were closely related genetically - the girls get the added black color that the males didn't. Over the years we had 4 female reds and countless red males. The remainder of the females with the exception of a single black, a single grey/white and a single brown tabby, were always tri-colors.
Looking at the poll results right now, there is a much stronger presence of red females than I would have expected. Keep voting folks! I'll do a count in a couple of days.
I know - thought about how to do this better - I'm hoping people will list the number if more than one and I plan to count them. I have 6 males and 1 female so that would skew it back to the norm.Originally Posted by Beckiboo
I think the one/more than one choice may skew the results. With "most" people who have one or two cats, the results may be different than with our group...some of whom have LOTS of kitties. So showing one vs some could be one girl and 8 boys! LOL!