That's a female cat. Calico cats are exclusively female, barring cats with extra chromosomes which are extremely rare.
That's probably a female cat.
Fixed it for you.
Somewhat related: here's a pic of my calico Emily looking like she's drunkenly threatening to punch me
I stated the exception to the rule in my own comment, I'm just not gonna hedge my bets when the odds are 99.967% in my favor.
Thanks for the adorable photo!
ur extremely rare
Yeah, I guess people raised by cat breeders are pretty rare.
Extremely rare doesn't mean impossible
They're mostly female but not all female
I didn't say it was impossible.
That said, if somebody gave me the option to bet on a calico cat being female, I would always take that bet because I'd only be wrong about one in three thousand times (0.03333...% of the time) if the cat was randomly selected, whereas other coat colors it'd be 50-50.
Would someone really do that? Just go on the Internet and tell lies?
The former president/vampire hunter sure seems to think so 🤷
Are you sure that isn't just a birman that was born with a simple congenital deformity of that part of its face?
My understanding is that the X chromosome carries the gene for red cat fur. Female calicos have one X with the red fur gene and one without. If a cat only has X chromosomes that carry the red fur gene, they'll be an red-furred cat, which is why the only male calicos are XXY. An XY male cat with the red fur gene on their X chromosome just comes out red.
I don't see how some separate "simple congenital deformity" other than an extra X could account for red fur.
I could be wrong, I'm not a cat scientist, I just grew up knowing hundreds of cats.
That's a female cat. Calico cats are exclusively female, barring cats with extra chromosomes which are extremely rare.
Fixed it for you.
Somewhat related: here's a pic of my calico Emily looking like she's drunkenly threatening to punch me
I stated the exception to the rule in my own comment, I'm just not gonna hedge my bets when the odds are 99.967% in my favor.
Thanks for the adorable photo!
ur extremely rare
Yeah, I guess people raised by cat breeders are pretty rare.
Extremely rare doesn't mean impossible
They're mostly female but not all female
I didn't say it was impossible.
That said, if somebody gave me the option to bet on a calico cat being female, I would always take that bet because I'd only be wrong about one in three thousand times (0.03333...% of the time) if the cat was randomly selected, whereas other coat colors it'd be 50-50.
Would someone really do that? Just go on the Internet and tell lies?
The former president/vampire hunter sure seems to think so 🤷
Are you sure that isn't just a birman that was born with a simple congenital deformity of that part of its face?
My understanding is that the X chromosome carries the gene for red cat fur. Female calicos have one X with the red fur gene and one without. If a cat only has X chromosomes that carry the red fur gene, they'll be an red-furred cat, which is why the only male calicos are XXY. An XY male cat with the red fur gene on their X chromosome just comes out red.
I don't see how some separate "simple congenital deformity" other than an extra X could account for red fur.
I could be wrong, I'm not a cat scientist, I just grew up knowing hundreds of cats.
You're right but I don't think that's a calico.