💬 Off-Topic Transphobic Animals - Pets and other animals who sniff out frauds or react negatively to troons

TismFarmer said:
Did I understand incorrectly, or does this mean that a Boy cat cannot get the colour gene from its father and therefore would only be able to have the same colour fur as its Mother?
(unless it had Klinefelters)
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It's complicated. Basically, there's a gene that's linked to the XY or XX chromosome pair, that says whether a cat's going to have orange fur or not. And then, if it does go the orange route, it can either be a 'ginger' orange-white cat (almost always usually male) or a 'calico'/'tortoiseshell' orange-white-black cat (almost always female).

Female 'ginger' cats and male 'calico'/'tortoiseshell' cats generally have some kind of genetic abnormality, which is estimated at about 0.3% of the relevant cat population. And they're typically sterile.

This is, of course, dependent on the owner, who may declare their cat a heckin' valid transgender cat. Whether or not the cat understands this or cares is probably a matter of some contention.
 
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Not A Cat Person said:
It's complicated. Basically, there's a gene that's linked to the XY or XX chromosome pair, that says whether a cat's going to have orange fur or not. And then, if it does go the orange route, it can either be a 'ginger' orange-white cat (almost always male) or a 'calico'/'tortoiseshell' orange-white-black cat (almost always female).

Female 'ginger' cats and male 'calico'/'tortoiseshell' cats generally have some kind of genetic abnormality, which is estimated at about 0.3% of the relevant cat population. And they're typically sterile.

This is, of course, dependent on the owner, who may declare their cat a heckin' valid transgender cat. Whether or not the cat understands this or cares is probably a matter of some contention.
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That’s only true for males.

Female gingers make up about 20% of all ginger cats. Uncommon, but not rare. They need an orange/calico/tortoiseshell mother (one x-chromosome in orange) and an orange father (another x-chromosome in orange). They are fertile and have no usual health issues from their genes.

For a male to be toirtoseshell, it needs two x-chromosomes. I.e. XXY. They are infertile.
 
My dog actually encountered a troon for the first time today and went utterly insane and had to be restrained. Has never reacted that way to any actual human. The dog noticed the troon before I did.
 
Not sure if this counts, but I have 2 cats that both react very poorly to videos of Yarrow Brown. When I played a video of xyr doing xyr Viking yodeling, grey and white tuxedo boy shook his foot as though he stepped into something foul and turned his back. The strawberry blonde kitty boy (who is normally a living teddy bear and is a glutton for love) turned his back to me and gave me a filthy look. They know.
 
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Deadnamed by an ancient digital pet lol
 
TismFarmer said:
Did I understand incorrectly, or does this mean that a Boy cat cannot get the colour gene from its father and therefore would only be able to have the same colour fur as its Mother?
(unless it had Klinefelters)
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The genes for a calico or tortoiseshell cat are x-linked co-dominant. So a male cat (unless it has some sort of genetic disorder) can only have one of the genes necessary, but a female cat can have both of them, one on each x-chromosome. A female cat gets one X chromosome from its father, so they are still inherenting alleles for fur color from the male line, but a male cat is getting a y chromosome instead, so the color of their fur will be determined by what they inherit from their mother. Male cats aren't necessarily going to have the same color fur as the mother though because they could inherit a recessive gene.
 
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