William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Here is another one I have heard: White cats with blue eyes are
deaf. True ar false?
Mostly true. I don't remember, off hand, the exact path from genes to
color and hearing, but the white color is caused by a genetically
controlled suppression of the
Also they can have one blue eye, which means they are
deaf on that side only.
I have only ever seen black and whites come in
male. I don't
recall where I heard it is a genetic link.
Here is another one I have heard: White cats with
blue eyes are
deaf.
True ar false?
Shel Belinkoff wrote: Over the years I've encountered two or three male
calicos. They were all
alive. However, calicos have a very, very strong tendency to be female,
but as with most other things in life, it is not absolute.
Those of you who really need to run this into the ground might be
I had a black, white, and gray male. I don't know if that qualifies as a
calico. He was another stray kitten who I managed to lure into my house.
The woods in Jersey were full of stray kittens who were apparently
littered under a tree somewhere. He died just last winter at the age of
20 or so. I
Point taken :). But with advances in genetic engineering, there might one
day be male calicos all over the place ...
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From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Here's one of my cute cats. Her name is Toots.
http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/toots.jpg
I have only ever seen
Frequently, if not always. I've never seen one that wasn't.
William Robb wrote:
I have only ever seen black and whites come in male. I don't
recall where I heard it is a genetic link.
Here is another one I have heard: White cats with blue eyes are
deaf.
True ar false?
--
Shel Belinkoff
William,
Not all black and white cats are male, this applies only to Calico's
(if I remember right), and I _know_ that it is possible for a female cat
to be black and white, but it's EXTREMELY rare . . . don't remember the
exact details, but I believe that the gene is only on the cat's
Bill Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
William,
Not all black and white cats are male, this applies only to Calico's
(if I remember right), and I _know_ that it is possible for a female cat
to be black and white, but it's EXTREMELY rare . . . don't remember the
exact details, but I believe
On Thu, 24 May 2001 22:19:50 -0400, PAUL STENQUIST wrote:
I had a black and white female. I found her wandering in the woods in
Central Jersey. Her name was Ebony and she passed away a couple of years
ago at the age of 17. She was predominantly black with some small areas
of white.
I had
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