![]() When I got Sam, the humane society told me that he was 7 wks old and a girl. One black male, one black and white male, one calico female We had an orange male that fathered four kittens with a calico: (You can only hope that Sparky is more sane.) Sparky bears a slight resemblance to one of my own orange (er, ginger) cats, Pete. ![]() Ginger is the same as orange as near as I can tell. I should have said, Sparky (above) is male, just to bring the thread back on topic. is my nextdoor neighbours' cat Sparky counted as an orange cat? I've always thought of this kind of cat as "ginger". Silly question - are orange cats the same as ginger cats? i.e. My Piper is an orange (or cream) female, and she is a social butterfly! Also she is a big girl, bigger than most females. often finding amusement with everything from the rug to the air itself. Once she gets going, however, she can be quite playful. Her "sister" Darla (a torbie) is far more playful. She really prefers perching on the highest thing in the room and headbutting anything she can. Princess can amuse herself for an hour with an old fir cone, a dried leaf, or a bit of fluff.ĭrusilla isn't really a playful cat. And friendly-even feral, the second time I saw her, she plopped on her side for belly rubs. Of course, both of them have had kittens (not my fault!).īriony, the one in the middle, is a riot. My orange female cats are more playful than my orange male cats. :Dĭo you guys find that male cat are more social, playful, and silly than female cats? I have had about 16 cats in my time and have yet to have a female with nearly as much personality as my most mellow male. I didn't know about this: I had an orange female in the past and I have one now. She's bigger than most female cats I have seen, though. Meowhous the iconoclast edited this topic ages ago. I mean, what can you say about a feral who the second time she sees you, throws herself on the ground and tries to get you to rub her tummy. Now, I will admit there are very few orange females in my neighborhood now, but that's because I've been neutering the breeding females (of any color) and males that I can, and the enormous (>23lbs) stray orange tom ("Bruiser") has not been around recently. Briony (no photo available) is also orange, as is her son. She had four kittens when I met her, three boys ( Sonny is one) and one girl, a very typical litter composition for this neighborhood (here's another 3/1 litter, this one black/white, and I've seen other litters that were 3 boys and no girls). I believe torties come from female cats having an orange X chromosome and a black X chromosome. (And nearly 100% of them are insane in some fashion. Something like 75% of orange kitties are male. :o)ĭo you have any idea how tortoiseshell cats come about? Are they just a variation on a calico? Our Tortoiseshell female looks like a ginger tabby with black flecks. I know it can be kind of confusing!! Let me know if that doesn't make sense. ![]() This is also the answer to why all calico cats are females (although I think there are a very teeny tiny number of male calicos just because nature isn't perfect). Males have an X and a Y chromosome and the Y is negligent when it comes to color, so if a male's X chromosome carries the dominant orange color it will be an orange cat.įemales get two X chromosomes but what's interesting here is that if a female gets an X chromosome with the dominant orange color and her other X chromosome is for a different color (which most times it is), those two colors will blend and this is usually when you get a calico or tri-colored cat. It has to do with genetics - the orange color is a dominant gene carried on the X chromosome. ![]() Well, i have a male orange cat, so I don't know )
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