Posted on 08/07/2007 7:33:14 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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By the way, I've never met a calico that wasn't as smart as they make them. She's probably figured out that you're the safest place around to have her kittens!
That’s terrible. With that many close calls I think I would put one in too.
That’s the color my momma feral cat is :)
The problem is something that's full of mostly air. That's why if people drain their swimming pools for extended periods of time the ground water will push them right up out of the ground. That's why nobody in our neighborhood hardly has a pool, and if they do they leave it full but covered all winter.
I guess I’ve been adopted, huh?
My house in Alabama was a split level and the front porch ran the length of the house. It was 12ft wide and 4ft high. It was concrete and cinder block but hollow inside with vents and a door to access it from the basement closet. We figured it was built that was as a tornado shelter, especially when we learned we lived in tornado alley.
The calico color is a sex-linked lethal recessive (on the X chromosome). The females, having 2 X chromosomes, have a 'good' X that takes up the slack, but the males having only one X chromosome die if they get the calico gene. That's why you have to have bicolor males in your calico breeding program (and why calicos have so many bicolor, white, and black kittens!)
I think the very rare male calicos are probably XXYs or some other oddball variation such as incomplete division.
They come in plastic too. Either way weight holds them down though.
Good luck! It's not easy to please a calico.
I’m just a fill in. She’s my husband’s project.
You leave water filled footprints when you walk across our side yard. . . . that's one of the prices we pay for the desirable neighborhood we live in! Right by the river in the alluvial soil, poor drainage, and nightly whistle entertainment courtesy of the CSX railroad that runs around 3 sides of the neighborhood (with 3 grade crossings!)
Momma cat (grey calico) had Little Sister (calico) and Tom (black & white) her first litter, then Buffy (looks like a long hair siamese or burmese) and George (orange tabby). By then I was able to trap her in a live trap and get her spayed :) Finally got all of them and all but Tom are still here, living under the house and keeping me free of mice, moles and snakes in payment for food.
That’s how my husband feels about my dogs!
I have been trying to call him though...”you know that cat you have been feeding and working with for a month, that won’t let you touch her...Well she’s in the garage rubbing against my leg and eating out of my hand..hahaha?.
Dry cat food with a tablespoon of tuna mixed in and fresh water every day - she’ll adopt you :) Momma cat still meets me (well, 3-4 feet away) every night when I come home from work. George does too - just to say, glad you’re back.
Sounds about right! The first daddy was carrying the orange and black genes so you had the calico girl and the black and white male. Odds are the second daddy was an orange male carrying a Siamese gene, Momma cat must have had some Siamese back of her too. (There’s a lot of that going around, the Siamese color is a recessive but Siamese males are prodigious lovers and fighters if they get out.)
We have talked about experimenting...mostly me but we don’t get that many threats a year but it only takes one. In a hurricane I think it would be dangerous. Maybe a safe room is best. I was watching some show on a company in Oklahoma that could stand up to Cat 5 winds. I don’t know how that equals to a tornado though.
She’s a shameless opportunist . . . and thinking of the welfare of her babies!
It only takes one though.
The good news for us is that the Atlanta metro generates so much heat that it creates a 'tornado bubble' that deflects the tornados off into the countryside. Of course, if we move TO the countryside, then we'll have to see about that tornado shelter . . . .
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