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I don’t know a lot about cats but I feel like calicos and orange cats are basically the same

130 upvotes, 9 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in Pet Pics. "I don’t know a lot about cats but I feel like calicos and orange cats are basically the same"

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Anonymous 2w

Fun fact: Calicos are 99.9% females.

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Anonymous 2w

I took my mom's tortoiseshell cat to the vet for her first visit when she was itty bitty and the vet said "oh and a fleck of orange. Watch out, those orange cats are firecrackers"

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Anonymous 2w

I mean calicos are calicos because they have an orange gene mixed

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Anonymous 2w

the gene that causes red coloring (as opposed to black-based colors) is on the X chromosome; a calico cat has one red copy and so does an orange male cat on account of having only one X chromosome, so they are kind of Equally Orange. By this logic orange girl cats are the Most Orange

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Anonymous 1w

my calico likes pasta, pizza, and sour cream and onion chips. love her crazy ass

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Anonymous

#2 2w

I've worked at a vet clinic, and have never met a normal orange cat

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Anonymous

#5 2w

because they have to have two copies of the red allele.

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Anonymous

#6 1w

(don’t take this as we feed her human food regularly this is cause she steals it from us)

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Anonymous

#3 1w

Any cat with three colors is a female

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