Cat Chat 2

[Sixx O'Clock]

Here is a neat little article I found regarding cat colors, for anyone interested.
Like Keriae said, the little female cat with orange ears will likely be a tortie like mom, not a flame point. She would still definitely be a pretty cat, though. c:

[DrinaLestrange]

Was momma around only the one male cat? They can have 1 litter with multiple fathers. My kitten's daddy was an orange Tom and he's orange striped while his brother's daddy was black and he's the same. My boy is 2x the size of his brother already and his daddy was bigger too.

Male cats only inherit colour from their mothers c:

@ru. I'd say that he looks like he could be a seal bicolour, but we'll only know once he colour properly develops anyway.

Where did you hear that? Because as far as I'm aware it's not true. Punnet squares don't have anything to do with gender. And momma cat was white and exposed to a black tom and an orange. All her kitten's were black and orange.

[Nyxeva]

Interesting read.

[linkin]

It's curious that supposedly male cats can only receive colour patterns from their mums— My first kitty is a lovely blue colour and his mother was colourpointed with black points. She had no siamese babies, only two blues and one black. All three were male. She was a stray, though, so I dunno.

Cat colouring is such an interesting thing. Did you know that adult cats can't have brown eyes like humans and dogs? My kitten had brown eyes for a little while, but as she's gotten a bit bigger they've changed into a beautiful golden/copper colour.

What colours are your guys' respective kitties? I have one black, one shaded blue/cream tortoiseshell, and one blue. :^)

[Keriae]

Was momma around only the one male cat? They can have 1 litter with multiple fathers. My kitten's daddy was an orange Tom and he's orange striped while his brother's daddy was black and he's the same. My boy is 2x the size of his brother already and his daddy was bigger too.

Male cats only inherit colour from their mothers c:

Where did you hear that? Because as far as I'm aware it's not true. Punnet squares don't have anything to do with gender. And momma cat was white and exposed to a black tom and an orange. All her kitten's were black and orange.

The genes for colour are located on the X chromosome in cats! Males have XY, and females have XX. For a kitten to be male, he inherits a Y chromosome from his father, and an X from his mother. That's why a female cat needs to inherit two red genes for her to be red, otherwise she'll be tortoiseshell, whereas a male only needs to inherit one because the Y chromosome is incomplete.

White is not a colour c: it is a masking gene. If her kittens had two different fathers, and there were orange females, then she has to be tortoiseshell.

It's curious that supposedly male cats can only receive colour patterns from their mums— My first kitty is a lovely blue colour and his mother was colourpointed with black points. She had no siamese babies, only two blues and one black. All three were male. She was a stray, though, so I dunno.

Colourpoint/Siamese is a recessive gene, so unless the father carried siamese then no babies would have been siamese c: blue is the dilute of black/seal, so she would have carried dilute. Dad was probably a run-of-the-mill stray.

[DrinaLestrange]

@keriae, all 4 kittens were male. No females.

[Keriae]

^ She still has to be tortoiseshell, your kitten is ginger and his brother is black c: it's just coincidence that they look like their fathers.

[shadow~wolf]

So my best friend got a cat named Iris from the shelter quite a few months ago. Shes white and has one blue eye and one green. Iris and her other kitty Oreo are outside cats (her grandma who she lives with won't let them in) Shortly after they got Iris she slowly began sometimes hanging out on her neighbors porch and the time that she stayed there kept increasing. I don't know if my friend told them that Iris was her cat (i think she did they just didn't care) and they started to feed her and when i was trick or treating with my friend they actually had Iris inside their house! how can she get her cat back?

[Eremite]

So my best friend got a cat named Iris from the shelter quite a few months ago. Shes white and has one blue eye and one green. Iris and her other kitty Oreo are outside cats (her grandma who she lives with won't let them in) Shortly after they got Iris she slowly began sometimes hanging out on her neighbors porch and the time that she stayed there kept increasing. I don't know if my friend told them that Iris was her cat (i think she did they just didn't care) and they started to feed her and when i was trick or treating with my friend they actually had Iris inside their house! how can she get her cat back?

Legally Iris is their cat, all they have to do is walk over and ask for their cat back. If she adopted her she should be chipped which would prove that Iris is her's. Animals are considered property so Iris is stolen property, if they refuse to give her back then authorities can be contacted and they'll remove the cat and return it to its owner and fine the neighbors for theft.

[Angelus Gaston]

So my best friend got a cat named Iris from the shelter quite a few months ago. Shes white and has one blue eye and one green. Iris and her other kitty Oreo are outside cats (her grandma who she lives with won't let them in) Shortly after they got Iris she slowly began sometimes hanging out on her neighbors porch and the time that she stayed there kept increasing. I don't know if my friend told them that Iris was her cat (i think she did they just didn't care) and they started to feed her and when i was trick or treating with my friend they actually had Iris inside their house! how can she get her cat back?

Legally Iris is their cat, all they have to do is walk over and ask for their cat back. If she adopted her she should be chipped which would prove that Iris is her's. Animals are considered property so Iris is stolen property, if they refuse to give her back then authorities can be contacted and they'll remove the cat and return it to its owner and fine the neighbors for theft.

But if the cat is an outdoor cat then there is nothing stopping the cat from going back to the neighbours house if its returned. To stop them keeping the cat she needs to be made an indoor cat permanently so she doesn't go to other people for food and shelter.
If she isn't made an indoor cat there is nothing stopping the neighbours from feeding her and keeping her inside if she just keeps going back.