#MALE CALICO FREE#
Do you? Feel free to comment below! We'd love to see more photos or hear tell of your beautiful, beloved kitties!Īnd if you have a kitty birthday or adoption day coming up for your favorite calico kitty, don't forget to treat them to a gift or two from our Under $10 section! A popular tortie you might recognize is Venus, the "two-faced cat."Īdmittedly, I don't have a calico (or tortie) to call my own.
Tortoiseshell refers to the bicolor coat pattern that is almost entirely orange and black with very little to no white markings. But their colorations are slightly different. Source: Pottermore Wait! What about tortoiseshell cats?ĭon't worry, we didn't forget about them! Tortoiseshell, or tortie, cats are similar to calicos in that they too are mostly female. The Maryland Orioles baseball team also wears these colors.įluffy Elizabeth of Baltimore, above, won a division of the animal dress-up contest with her black-eyed-susan themed costume.Ī calico cat Patronus is the best Patronus. The calico cat became the official state cat of Maryland in 2001, chosen because the calico’s colors resemble that of an Oriole, Maryland’s state bird. Breeding for calicos is near impossible as the genetic configuration is unpredictable, and most male cats are sterile and aren't really of any higher monetary value than other cats. due to the myth that calicos can be sold at top dollar. Sometimes called “money cats” in the U.S. Litter isn’t the only thing calicos are raking in. Unless your podiatrist is like, "Whoa." Then maybe go find a calico cat. Or maybe don't worry about weird foot growths. Or you could just wear a pair of cat socks. Just look at the size of that wart remover! This calico kitty is a surefire way to banish those bumps. The calicos were thought to chase away storms and also any angry, ancestral ghosts that may float onboard.īe sure to bring your pocket-sized calico protector with you wherever you go.Īn old Irish wives’ tale claims that if you’ve got a wart on ye olde foot, just rub-a-dub-dub that unfortunate bump on an (even more unfortunate) calico’s tail. Long ago, Japanese sailors saw calico cats as companions of good luck and would bring them along on their ocean voyages.
The higher her paw is held, the luckier you’ll be. If Maneki neko’s left paw is raised, she’ll lure in those customers with her calico charm while her raised right paw bestows good luck and wealth. Maneki neko, a Japanese cat talisman thought to bring good fortune and wealth, is almost always calico. In England and the United States, male calicos are considered especially lucky due to their rarity. That concludes the scientific portion of today’s cool calico cat facts! But we’ve got some fun feline folklore in store for you. This anomaly can also cause Klinefelter’s Syndrome, a health issue that may result in some health problems for calico males. Only one in 10,000 male calicos are born fertile because of this rare XXY configuration. Meet Sherman, one in 3,000. A stray male calico who showed up at the Humane Society Silicon Valley! While these cats present as male, they are calico because of the double X chromosome. Good luck finding one! There's less than a 0.1% chance of a calico cat being born male. Approximately one in 3,000 calicos are male.įor a male cat to have calico colors, it must have an extra X chromosome, making it XXY.
One of the more famous calico ladies is Honorable Eternal Stationmaster Tama who saved the Kishi Station in Wakayama, Japan, from closing.Īnother cute calico lady is Pudge, whose "mustache is cooler than yours." Here's Pudge lounging around in all her feminine feline glory.
No worries, I won’t be dragging out the Punnett squares and overhead projector. Almost all calico cats are female.Ĭalicos are a weird wonder of nature, genetically speaking. It’s most commonly a tri-color mix of orange, black and white, but variations of these basic colors can also present, such as cream, reddish brown, blue-black or even gray.Ĭalico colors can present in any breed of domestic cat, long hair or short: Japanese Bobtail, Manx, Persian, Turkish Angora and American Shorthair to name a few. Calico actually refers to a cat’s coat color and fur pattern. To get down to brass tacks, “calico” is not a breed of cat. (Okay, even I cringed at that pun.) Their “cool cat” stat is backed by some interesting science. It's not just their beautiful, eye-catching colors that make them pretty cali cool. Calico cats are some of the coolest cats there are.
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