Can Orange Female Cats Have Kittens

In this litter you know that all tortoiseshell tabby kittens are female all orange tabby kittens are male and that black tabby kittens can be either male or female.

Can orange female cats have kittens. Your female cat may act toward kittens or even to you as an adoptive mother. She might view you as a poor hunter and bring you dead animals or even partially dead animals to teach you how to hunt. Is it possible for a calico cat to be male.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi did a xylograph called Woman Holding a Cat depicting a woman in a traditional kimono holding an orange and cream feline. Normally a female cat can have an average of four to eight kittens per litter. If you have any more questions about cat genetics please feel free to ask.

When a cat is about to have kittens there is a certain smell and other cats can smell this. Vaginal discharge may occur in heat-prone females. The main factor which influences cat heat is sunlight.

We do recommend that you get the cats and kittens spayed or neutered as soon as possible. However there have been cases where a black cat might be a tortie or a brown tabby a brown patched tabby. Cats can only begin to have kittens once theyve experienced their first heat.

Whether a kitten displays the tabby pattern depends on whether it inherits a dominant or recessive agouti gene. The average age of heats in cats however is 6 months for female cats which can oscillate or 9 months in male cats. My question is thisi thought that orange female cats were sterileor was that the males.

Basically when it comes to cat colors cats are black unless they have inherited the sex-linked orange masking gene in which case they are red Miller explains. I have a female orange tabby with no whiteshe had a litter of kittens interestingly enough the sire was a flame point siamese with red blood vessels tracing thru his irises and 2 of the kittens were siamese pattern albinoes and one was a regular albino. By the way those orange kittens are super-cute.