Cat Chat 2

[maninkari]

My oldest cat is going to get his tooth pulled next Friday, and he's going to a groomer in March. He's gonna be a whole new kitty!

[flyteck]

Fun fact: A male calico/tortoiseshell cat is rare and he'd most likely be sterile as he'd have XXY chromosomes instead of just XY like a normal tomcat!

Actually, it's also possible that he's entirely fertile.

Male cats basically have 2 ways to become a calico. They could have XXY chromosomes and be infertile, or...

(A little lesson in cat genetics!)

Any gender of cat can be ginger, as in an X chromosome they either have ginger "on" or ginger "off". Female cats have 2 X chromosomes, so they have a chance of having one chromosome with "on" and one with "off", which makes that cat a calico.

Let's say there's two kittens still in the womb. One of them is a little tomcat who's going to be a black cat. Let's say he has a sister who's going to be a calico. It's possible that their cells can merge while they're still in the earliest stages of development, and you get a male cat who turns out to be a calico. He has the chromosomes XY and is fertile, but he carries the traits he was originally going to have, not the traits his sister carried.

And that's your lesson in cat genetics. Thank you 7th grade science.

I think that second one would be a chimera, which I'm not sure is classed the same way as a calico. You could have any combination of colours with a chimera, as it's just two different sets of DNA being expressed in different places. So some of the cells would be XY and some others would be XX. I think. It's late and this is off the top of my head... Just wanted to add on a bit. Chimeras are cool.

[AtlasHyperion]

I think that second one would be a chimera, which I'm not sure is classed the same way as a calico. You could have any combination of colours with a chimera, as it's just two different sets of DNA being expressed in different places. So some of the cells would be XY and some others would be XX. I think. It's late and this is off the top of my head... Just wanted to add on a bit. Chimeras are cool.

Chimeras are technically two separate cats mixed together, right? Because the second option isn't technically two separate cats that parts were taken from and mashed together; it's a single cat that took the coloring of another but kept all it's original traits. For example, if this male calico was going to be a brown cat before he was a calico, his kittens would be brown, too, not calico like his sister. You might find this video helpful. I'm pretty sure it's only XY, because he's not a hermaphrodite cat; he's a male. I'm not a hundred percent, but pretty sure.

[blazesong]

I think that second one would be a chimera, which I'm not sure is classed the same way as a calico. You could have any combination of colours with a chimera, as it's just two different sets of DNA being expressed in different places. So some of the cells would be XY and some others would be XX. I think. It's late and this is off the top of my head... Just wanted to add on a bit. Chimeras are cool.

Chimeras are technically two separate cats mixed together, right? Because the second option isn't technically two separate cats that parts were taken from and mashed together; it's a single cat that took the coloring of another but kept all it's original traits. For example, if this male calico was going to be a brown cat before he was a calico, his kittens would be brown, too, not calico like his sister. You might find this video helpful. I'm pretty sure it's only XY, because he's not a hermaphrodite cat; he's a male. I'm not a hundred percent, but pretty sure.

it's late here but it sounds right to me,(ill ramble on below) and there are 3 ways for a male calico (but the 3ed i'v only seen on 2 horses(as it happens on horses and dogs as well) and a calico girl-cat)

you have the XXY infertile males
the males with two sets of genes,so it can only pass on one color so say it's passable gene is black and it bred with a black girl, the kittens would all be black.
And a somatic mutation, i belive this is more common in ginger cats as it 'turns off' the ginger gene, i'v seen it turn off dilute gene (the calico girl, shes a dilute but with a nice patch of black where the dilute is not 'turned on')

[Silent Serenity]

Hey Everyone!

So, Tomorrow I will be getting a Kitten! (yay!)

Here's a picture of him right here ^-^


The only problem I'm having right now, Is what too call it,
anybody have any ideas? :')

[non]

How about Fwuffy?

[octotron]

Hey Everyone!

So, Tomorrow I will be getting a Kitten! (yay!)

Here's a picture of him right here ^-^


The only problem I'm having right now, Is what too call it,
anybody have any ideas? :')

-Toby
-Milo
-Oliver
-Casper
-Oakley
Any of those? Those names just remind me of him! XD

[autobot.]

Hey Everyone!

So, Tomorrow I will be getting a Kitten! (yay!)

Here's a picture of him right here ^-^


The only problem I'm having right now, Is what too call it,
anybody have any ideas? :')

Jay~

That's what I would name a silver kitten

[fluffycat6]

Hey Everyone!

So, Tomorrow I will be getting a Kitten! (yay!)

Here's a picture of him right here ^-^


The only problem I'm having right now, Is what too call it,
anybody have any ideas? :')

How about Smokey?

[Ancient Wind]

Hey Everyone!

So, Tomorrow I will be getting a Kitten! (yay!)

Here's a picture of him right here ^-^


The only problem I'm having right now, Is what too call it,
anybody have any ideas? :')

Maybe Simba