Found! cat on frame square

Caught a cat this evening on Frame Square. Has a tag, called the number and left a message but I wanted to put a message up in the forums too in case they look here too.

Not sure what you would call the breed but its got dark almost black hair with rusty spots all over.

looks similar to this:

 

good for you for securing the cat. Hope the owners get it back soon

 

found the owners!

 

This type of cat is from the Calico family known as a "Tortishell" because its fur has three or more colors in it. Finding a male is rare and they're usually sterile. May be due to a recessive gene. Some cultures consider them good luck felines.

 

so how do they reproduce? I've heard this before and you've rekindled my curiousity with these cats!

 

well, first the male kitty buys the female kitty dinner... and then...

hee heeee....

 

I really hope the owners plan to keep her inside. She sits on my deck railing and drives my indoor cats and my dog crazy!

 

Friday was the first time I've ever seen this cat. I almost ran over her on Friday while I was backing out of my driveway. The reason I caught her was because my husband saw her and was concerned that she looked scared and lost (he too has never seen her before). She's super friendly!

I would hope they'd keep her inside too but it doesn't appear like they are.

 

They're not specific breeds of cat as in Siamese or Persian.

Tortoiseshell coats are caused by a combination of specific genetic traits. In female cats, where this trait occurs almost exclusively, it is a result of X-inactivation, in which different patches of fur receive coding for different hair color due to the activation of an X chromosome from either the mother or the father. Calico coloring is a mix of phaeomelanin based colors (red) and eumelanin based colors (black, chocolate and cinnamon).

Coat coloration in cats is complex, and controlled by several genes. One gene involved has two alleles: the Orange allele, O, which is the dominant form, (XO), and produces orange fur; and the "Black" allele, "o", which is the recessive form, (Xo), and produces black fur.

For a cat to be a tortoiseshell or calico, it must simultaneously express both of the alleles, O and o, which are two versions of the same gene, located at the same locus on the X chromosome. Males normally cannot do this: they can have only one allele, as they have only one X chromosome; consequently, virtually all tortoiseshell or calico cats are females. Occasionally a male calico is born (the rate is approximately 1 in 3,000[2]). These may have Klinefelter's syndrome, the carrying of an extra X chromosome, and will almost always be sterile. Alternatively, a male calico/tortoiseshell may be a chimera, resulting from the fusion of two differently colored embryos.

The spotting gene causes white patches to cover the colored fur. Although there is no genetic difference, the amount of white is artificially divided into mitted, bicolor, harlequin, and van, going from almost no white to almost completely white.

In normal female tortoiseshell cats and in Klinefelter males, the position of the patches depends on which X-chromosome is active in each cell and which is inactivated to become a Barr body.

In some cats, mainly calico cats with a prominently white coat, the texture of hair may change between colors.

Does that clarify the confusion or confuse the clarification?:scaredeyes:

Folklore
Cats of this coloration are believed to bring good luck in the folklore of many cultures;[3] in the United States these are sometimes referred to as money cats.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoiseshell_cat

 

That's how we always thought in our family. However our ratio of Tortoiseshell cats and money always seemed to be
disproportional

I guess we always rescued the "wrong" Tortoiseshell cat.

Any way, great write up

 

ask and you shall receive! thanks for the explanation! funny, Redon, very funny....