Our local animal shelter has an orange female kitten with her litter-mate brother who is also orange. I heard that orange females are rare. Is this true?
.........wayne
Our local animal shelter has an orange female kitten with her litter-mate brother who is also orange. I heard that orange females are rare. Is this true?
.........wayne
I'm not sure that I would call them rare like a male calico, but they are uncommon. I've have met very few female orange tabbies, so they do exist but the majority are male.
I've been Defrosted!
Thanks for the great signature Kay!
My Scout is a female orange tabby and I was told that about her at the shelter/rescue where I adopted her. I think they are not as many because it takes receiving the orange gene from both parents not just one - or something like that.
From Decker with Love
As I understand it 80% of orange are males because it's a genetic sex-linked trait.
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