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Oct 25, 2020 1:55 AM
TiptronicS
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rshini
my first dog holly thought my grandma's guinea pig was her puppy and tried to nurse him. He wanted none of that.
gabug81
Piggie is cuter
thisisausernamelikeanyothersbutthisonesmellsweird
how much nip did i take last night with mittens again?... Teh frick
Verbodentoegang
This meet up should all have started at the litterbox, play it out with crosseyed look and pointing to the cat saying:”what’s this ?!”
lazyguineapig
It ain't mine
FlyMeToTheSun
brothers from different mom.
ShifuYaku
That's a cute piggo right there ❤️
bluestemrocks
Gorgeous cat!
TakuanSoho
Indeed ! I think I never saw of my life a cat with such colors, stunning <3
Eddyrock
There’s the walk of shame and then there’s the 18 years of explaining
ActualTttony
Brilliant
TreeGoop
Guinea pig... 3 years tops...?
quadraspaz1
How you looking after your piggies? Mine lasted for 6 and 7 years
TreeGoop
It was a joke - rarely come across people that take care of them properly to last that long
TheFeralDog
Why can't male cats have this coloring?
mithiwithi
https://www.readersdigest.ca/home-garden/pets/why-are-all-calico-cats-female/
mithiwithi
Tl;dr the gene for the cat fur colors involved is only on the X chromosome so only females can get that kind of mix.
mithiwithi
Except for rare XXY males, which are sterile.
HoneyBunchesOfStoats
There is a gene in cats that determines whether they have orange fur, or another (non-white) color besides orange. To have both they must
HoneyBunchesOfStoats
have a copy of both version of the gene and the gene is located on the X chromosome so they must have two X chromosomes. At a certain stage
HoneyBunchesOfStoats
of female fetal development one X-chromosome per cell switches off. It's random which X chromosome switches off in which cell, so some cells
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will have the orange gene turned off, and others will have the non-orange gene turned off. So the resulting fur color is a mix of orange
HoneyBunchesOfStoats
and non-orange. The white spots are caused by a separate gene that's not on the x chromosome, so both male and female cats can have