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Panda with issues...

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Very cute.

I'm not a biologist, so maybe this is entirely wrong, but it seems quite interesting and unusual to me that you have three distinct colours of kittens there, with only one really taking after the mother, you have the tortoiseshell, the blue one and the two sand coloured ones. - What colour was the Tomcat? I guess I'd expect mixing of colours, but what do I know, I'm no geneticist.
 
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elDiablo

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Very cute.

I'm not a biologist, so maybe this is entirely wrong, but it seems quite interesting and unusual to me that you have three distinct colours of kittens there, with only one really taking after the mother, you have the tortoiseshell, the blue one and the two sand coloured ones. - What colour was the Tomcat? I guess I'd expect mixing of colours, but what do I know, I'm no geneticist.

I found this weird too. My cat is a long haired grey thing. His siblings (from the same litter) where black with white patches on their feet and chins. Their mother was a tortoiseshell. Apparently the father was white all over... All of them being short haired as well...
 

Panda with issues...

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I found this weird too. My cat is a long haired grey thing. His siblings (from the same litter) where black with white patches on their feet and chins. Their mother was a tortoiseshell. Apparently the father was white all over... All of them being short haired as well...

Maybe we should both have paid more attention in lessons about recessive genes?
 

Silk

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I don't know much about it, but a queen can have multiple mates and a mixed litter. So if it's not genetically possible, that'd explain it.

Also, did you know tortoise shells can't be male? I think there's been a freak incident or two where they were "mutant" (looked fine but couldn't breed) but yeah, not possible.
 

Panda with issues...

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I don't know much about it, but a queen can have multiple mates and a mixed litter. So if it's not genetically possible, that'd explain it.

Tramp cats explains it nicely, without having to worry about genetics

Also, did you know tortoise shells can't be male? I think there's been a freak incident or two where they were "mutant" (looked fine but couldn't breed) but yeah, not possible.

I had heard about this, and found it fairly confusing. I can't remember why, but I felt that there was a problem with this argument.

Are you keeping all the kittens, or are they for sale? Do you know who the fathercat(s) was/were?
 

Silk

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I had heard about this, and found it fairly confusing. I can't remember why, but I felt that there was a problem with this argument.

Are you keeping all the kittens, or are they for sale? Do you know who the fathercat(s) was/were?

No idea who the daddy cats were, though interestingly there is a grey fat one two doors down that has "supposedly" had the snip. Doesn't explain his son! ;)

The blue one is for sale, the two girls have a home when they are old enough and I am keeping Sparko the mini lion :)
 
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