Whay are male cats almost never calico?  How can an occassional calico male be explained?
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Calico cats, with their orange, black and white coloration, are almost always female. So are black and orange tortoiseshells. Why?\n\nThe answer has to do with genetics. Every cat has 38 pairs of chromosomes; half of the pairs are from the mother, the other half is from the father. Within every chromosome there are thousands of different genes.\n\nEvery female cat receives one X chromosome from her mother and one X chromosome from her father, while a male receives one X chromosome from his mother and one Y chromosome from his father. Within the X chromosome is a gene for coat color.\n\nIn calicos and tortoiseshells, one X has the black gene; the other X has the orange gene. White coat color is associated with a completely separate gene.\n\nAt conception, the kitten is a one-celled organism, which divides until there are millions of cells that make up the final kitten. Each time a cell divides, it passes on its genetic material.\n\nGene Inactivation\n\nFor the sex chromosomes, there is a battle for power. This is especially true for the X chromosome. If two X chromosomes are present, which determines female sex, one X chromosome will become inactivated at some point in fetal development. When this happens, all the cells descended from the activated X chromosome will have the same characteristics, including coat color. \n\nIn calicos, if the X-chromosome that is left functioning carries the orange gene, then all the cells descended from it will result in an orange color. The same is true if the functioning X chromosome has the black gene. If both X-chromosomes carry the same color gene, then the calico pattern will not appear.\n\nSince X chromosomes inactivate at various times in each individual cat, color patches vary.\n\nThe story is different for male cats. Males have only one X chromosome, and it is never inactivated. Whatever color gene is present on this X chromosome will determine the color of the cat. Males can be calico or tortoiseshell only if they are born with 2 X-chromosomes and a Y (XXY), allowing one X to be inactivated. This genetic defect (XXY) is very rare.
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Felis silvestris is a species which includes small wild cats and domestic cats.  They are all the same species, in the sense that they can interbreed, but different subspecies, in that they are geographically or behaviorally separated so that they rarely *do* interbreed.\n\nF. silvestris catus is the subspecies we call the domestic cat.\nOther subspecies are F. silvestris lybica (North African wild cat), F. silvestris sarda (Sardinian and Sicilian wild cats), F. silvestris ornata (India to Iran), etc.\n\nOther than that, your question seems to be one of a series of questions from your homework ... without knowing what "the preceding House Cat" means, nobody can help you.
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The belief is real. Not the actual superstition. C'mon. how many times has a black cat crossed your path? Or something similar?
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I have 4 cats and more on the way, so I guess I love the little stinkers. My "big boy'" name is Blue. He is a manx. My older female is Pilsner, she is a tortishell. Her and Blue had a litter together and we got Bacardi, a tuxedo manx. And then my runaway boy, whose name is Mark is just a "mutt cut" he left home when we got a dog, which we no longer have. He DOES come home on occasion and stays 2 or 3 days then runs off aain.
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Males are evolved to copulate all fertile females in the clan, and to make sure that other males won't. . . Females are evolved to submit to the dominant male, every female wanted to be the dominant male's favourite, once another male beats the dominant male and becomes dominant, automatically all females will accept him. . . That is the background behind the way we all behave. . .That what's hidden behind our fake quasi-civilised face. . .\nI think I answered your question, subtly. . . Read it again and you will get the exact answer! . . .
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Sounds like he's built an immunity to your cat, but others still bother him.  He should see a doctor, there's medication that can help.
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not a tiger, not a lion, not a panther, nor a bobcat, its just a cougar, hunny that must be sum ol ol fashioned talk, if i were u, why wood u wanna be called one. when a guy can just say here kitty kitty kitty.
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Mother or Father.  I thought it would be so funny when you go to the vet.  They'd have to come out and say "Mother?"  Ok not that funny, but it tickled me.\n\nI wanted to name my black cat Lily, but my husband has a cousin by that name, and he doesn't like her.\n\nAnother funny one (to me at least) was a cat having a full name.  I saw one named "Hector" on the internet, and I thought it would be funny to give him a full name such as "Hector Rodriguez."\n\nOne serious point - you should avoid naming them anything that sounds like a command.
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Never heard of it maybe you should ask a feline.
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I have the same problem except my dog follows my male cat around sniffing his butt. I usually beat him senseless and lock him and the female cat in the laundry room together so he gets the point.
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I never could understand why it was ok for a guy to have a dog, but a cat ..... well that would make you a wimp or weird.Not in my opinion though.I look at the bigger felines in  both a masculine and feminine way.They are  aggressive and deadly yet graceful and stealth.I guess a house cat could be perceived in the same manner.I hate how cats get treated. My boyfriend use to hate them until we moved in together, now he likes them more than dogs.In fact its gotten so bad that whenever a stray shows up around our house he feeds them and now its starting to look like an animal shelter.I don't find it strange for you or him to like cats. I think its sweet.
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In truth, we are usually set up to fail! \n\nNow calm down ladies! I'm not defending the male species as a whole! Most of us are just dogs.\n\nMen lie for a variety of reasons, but the most common is to protect the one that they are lying to. I know that this sounds incredulous, but is th truth!
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Well my girlfriend told me about 2 days ago that if you put butter on your cats feet when you move house that it will be able to find its way home.\n\nI havent been able to catch the cat yet to try it.
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Well that is in the eye of the beholder, I have seen and own a cat that is more like a man then a woman, and cats only seem clever there really just going on instinct, just like a dog.  Example, a golden retriever even as a puppy will retrieve any thing you throw it's bread in to them, just like a cat will use a litter box with out even thinking about it.  But I can say with full confidence that dogs are kinda like men we eat, drink, sleep and play, we are always trying to be dominant and like a dog we just cant resist the opposite sex.  As for cats i don't think that there feminine though they do walk with a little sway and are very neat and clean but again this is do to thousands of years of breeding and it comes to them with out a second thought.  Oh one more thing a cat may be a reference to the female do to the Egyptians, they had a cat goddess named BAST, She represented fertility, sex, earth and home.  This maybe why people relate the cat to a woman.  As for men and dogs maybe that's do to most dogs are working dogs, they spent countless hours around men for thousands of years, Heinz the term mans best friend.
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No. It's not unusual...\n\nThey weigh about twice that of a house cat, with adult males usually ranging from 16 to 30 pounds.\n\n(I'll say you're old! Can't even type! kidding.)
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lice can come from several diffrent things birds are a big carrier also cats they can not live on any source that does not supply them with a food source blood they like very clean hair birds humans cats are usaly very clean so there is a little light on the subject i hope
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The distinction between feral cats and stray cats. How are they different? How are they the same?\n\nShould people be allowed to remove them from their property if they become a nuisance? Why, or why not?