And there have been quite a few chimeric tomcats cropping up in Maine Coons. So far I know of 4 breeding programmes that have multiple generations of fertile tortie males (the breeds involved are Persians, Sphynxes, Norwegian Forest Cats and Siberians). But with multiple partners you could get a kitten that has 3 parents: the mother and 2 different fathers. It’s not so much the multiple partners, but the effect of fertilised eggs bumping into each other at an early stage of development before implantation.
As well as colour mixes, in theory you could get longhair/shorthair chimeras. I’ve written extensively on causes and occurrences of tortie males and chimeric females ( ) and there are some pics of black/grey/white chimeras. Venus hasn’t yet been proven to be a chimera and the comment by Lyons about tortie toms is a little misleading (she means XY/XY or XX/XY chimera, rather than XXY). Calico cats are meant to have “attitude”. You will see lots of stuff on the internet about this. Some people think calico behave differently to other cats. If a cat is male, he can’t have a calico coat, unless something goes a bit wrong. So, if a cat is female she might have a calico coat. The genes that make the calico cat’s fur red, white and black are linked to the genes that makes a cat female. They control how the cat looks and how the cat behaves and so on. Genes are very small particles (things) that are inside the cells of a cat. The reason why calico cats are female cats is difficult to explain in straightforward English because it is a tricky subject. A lot of male torties are, in fact, fertile. However, it seems that these beliefs were not quite correct. Male calico cats were also meant to be not very active and lively. People used to think that male calico cats were sterile, which means that they were not able to become a father to kittens. Photo and breeder: Irina Goriunova.Īlmost all calico cats are females. Meanwhile the British people decided they preferred “tortoiseshell and white”.Ĭalico - Tortoiseshell-and-white - Maine Coon bred in Russia.
Then the Americans liked the word and used it. Then the word “calico” was used to mean a brightly colored cat, which the calico cat is. More than 400 years ago, a brightly colored cloth (not a cat!) that came from Calicut, India was called calico cloth by the British people. Why do Americans call cats with red, black and white fur, calico cats? It seems to have come from Britain (United Kingdom – UK). Sometimes it is hard to see the colors as they blend together. The cat in the main picture, on this page, has clear areas where you can see these three colors. The name “calico” is an American name for this sort of cat.Ī tortoiseshell cat is orange (red) and black. They wave with their left paw.Īnother name for the calico cat is tortoiseshell and white. The Japanese have a lucky cat or beckoning cat that is put outside shops and so on. There’s lots of white fur with blobs of orange and black.
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