Originally Posted by katclock

[ATTACH=CONFIG]435860[/ATTACH]Beautiful kitties!

With 19 cats in the family, you would think we would have a calico, but the closest we come is tortoiseshell. Faye is pictured and she is my furbaby. She is a dilute tortoiseshell and is keeping me company while I quilt. My daughter has a beautiful, dark tortoiseshell.

A male calico is possible, but extremely rare and they are generally sterile. Orange females are not as rare as a male calico, again it's a genetic thing. I used to think that the darker the orange, the more likely to be male...volunteering on a spay neuter van showed me that thought was WRONG! LOL