In most other mammals, like dogs, sheep, rabbits, and horses, mutations in a protein called Mc1r lead to red hair color, but not in cats.
  • Blackout@fedia.io
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    4 months ago

    TLDR: They are mutants just like Jean Grey in the X-people. Their superpower is being able to ignore their name being called from 2 feet away.

  • FauxPseudo @lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I have six orange girls. Probably the largest collection on the East coast that isn’t a shelter or rescue.

      • FauxPseudo @lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Clockwise 11:30 Charlie 1:00 Topaz 3:00 Papita 4:00 Tasselhoff 6:00 Lucy 9:00 Ellie

        Charlie, Tasselhoff and Papita are also bobtails. So bonus rareness.

          • FauxPseudo @lemmy.worldEnglish
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            4 months ago

            We foster a lot of cats and and I had had orange girl on my list for a long long time. And then one day someone called me because in an area I was doing tnr my mom dropped off three babies on a porch. All three were girls. I caught the mom who was also orange. And then we picked up two more within a few months.

            I went from years without a single orange girl showing up to a flood of them to a flood of them. I was only going to keep two but my wife made me keep all of them.