Pets

[mirium]

The white color is probably genetically recessive, luf -- it's more of an absence of color than a color itself, so if there's even one gene for any kind of color you don't end up with a pure white cat. Which makes the pure white color rare, and something rare is usually prized.

[luf100]

Wow, that's cool I guess. I just think it's weird that it's rare. xD Big Mama is pure white, and she had 6 kittens, 3 of them were pure white (Milton one of them). But the other three were grey, black and multi-coloured.

[gregrox]

I only have one dog and he's a collie/shepard/lab mix. But he looks nothing like a collie which is a little odd considering he's mostly collie lol. His name's Namu and he's three.
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[jaglady]

Aw, I love the pet pics. Everybody has the neatest pictures!

Got a picture of my cat Mickey. She's a red tabby/Siamese mix. She used to belong to my parents, but both of them are gone now, so we took her in. She's 15 now and in pretty good health. I love that little cat.

I taught her how to read. I have to hold the book open for her, of course.

[jaglady]

Mickey gets jealous when I'm playing around on the computer and it's feeding time. She's pretty good about reminding me.



My best friend's cats, Baxter and Higgins, are huge mutt cats. Higgins is the red tabby, and Baxter is the gray and white one. We visited them for Thanksgiving dinner. I gave them a tub of catnip as a present. This was the end result. Something tells me Baxter's feeling no pain. I had to clean up my friend's bedroom carpet so I wouldn't feel any pain either.

[Nik Nak 17]

This pictures might not work since they are from facebook but it's worth a shot!

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[mirium]

hey luf, the 50% white/50% other colors in the kittens got me curious and I did some Googling -- turns out that some white cats are that way because they're albinos (absence of genes that create pigment; they have pink eyes) but most white cats (about 5% of all cats, according to one article) are white because there's a dominant gene that actively suppresses pigment. That matches your kitties' inheritance pattern -- mama cat has two copies of that color gene, one is for white (and masks the other one, making her white), one is for another color.

Half her kittens got the white gene from her and are white, half get the other gene and have colors -- which will be a combination of color(s) from momcat and color(s) from dadcat. There's more than one gene determining color in cats, so once the white gene isn't masking the others, it's not surprising that there's variety in the kittens. (That assumes that dadcat wasn't white; if he was, some of the kittens might have two white color genes and will have all white kittens themselves.)

We now return you to your normal convo.... ;D

[luf100]

xD Thanks for that mirium! I actually find that really interesting. None of our cats are albino, though that'd be interesting too. I have no idea what colour the dadcat was. We found Big Mama outside and she turned out pregnant. xD He was probably a stray.

[mirium]

Don't you mean "they were probably strays"? Which would also explain multiple colors in the kittens... One of the neighbors' kids once didn't realize their female dog was just going into heat and put her out in the yard on a chain. When the puppies came, it was obvious she'd gotten up close and personal with a golden lab, a beagle, a terrier, and several "undetermined"... ;D

[sarryb]

Feb 20, 2009 19:43:33 GMT -5 Nik Nak 17 said:

I have a Soft Coated Wheatan Terrier named Seamus. It's an Irish name for and Irish dog. I have pictures of him just not on this computer. So I guess you could google them, but he doesn't have the beard

WOAH!!
We used to have a soft coated wheaten Terrier, he was called Arni. He was a rescue dog. It was so sad when we he died. His back legs went, and eventually he had to go to the emergency vet one night and he never came home. So sad....
But unusual breed of dog, well it is for round here!
PIC Power!!
Sarry xx