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Comment on It bothers me when cat memes refer to the pictured cat as "he," but I can tell from its coat pattern that it's female. I may know too much about cats.

razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Fun fact: while almost all calico cats (tricolor coat) are female, around 1 in 3,000 are males with an extra X chromosome, a condition known as Klinefelter syndrome. As a result, they are almost always sterile. About 1 in 10,000 male calicos are fertile.

Also, around 80% of orange cats are male.

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Godric@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
That’s genuinely awesome stats you’re claiming! I feel doubly blessed for my orange little lovely lady who ran the house.

Her bigger also orange twin brother? Dominated. The big fuckoff dog? Dominated. She ran the indoor animals.

The only animal she didn’t run over was our elder statesmen cat, who was big and brilliant in equal measure. My dear boy was the largest cat I ever saw, and would understand language to a frightening degree.“Go see X”, “Come Here”, “stop”, and any mention of “Vet” was well interpreted :)

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01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
My friend had a male calico who was very much not sterile… at least not until the parents were required to neuter…

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Trex202@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Are the Organge ones and Calicos of the same breed?

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- razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Orange and calico are just some of the possible colorings of a cat’s fur and don’t determine its breed (although some breeds are known for having distinctive colors and patterns).
  
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