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We got her from the RSPCA sunday afternoon.

played around with a few ideas for names, walked into the kitchen after we got her home and saw the vegemite jar on the windowsill. I guess it's a kinda odd name but she's just a wee little mite!

sure does have sharp enough claws and a good strong bite *nurses thumb that got a nasty nibble at 4am*

So far her hobbies include getting into everything, chasing everything, and biting at her stitches .


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What a cutie

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Awww how cute!
Didnt take you long to get Aussie kittyised did it?

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Before you criticize someone walk a mile in their shoes. That way you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

Thanks guys

Nope it didnt Lindy I think that adam got tired of me taking photos of him and figured I'd spend my time photographing the cat instead .

She's currently making the stocktake for equarium rather difficult. Nothing like having to dig her out from behind the carbon bags or straightening up all the filter inserts that she's just messed up to decrease productivity .

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She's adorable! Reminds me of my friend's kitty Isis, who very unfortunately passed away late last year.

Is she settling in okay?

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde

Isis was on the list for names, would have been better than "temporarily wombols"...

She seems to be settling in just fine! She keeps adopting whoevers chair isn't occucpied, and often mine even if it is...those claws are great for getting her own way . Still trying to get her to learn her name, she didnt like the cat treats I'd gotten for her which makes it a little harder.

I'm a bit worried about her stitches, they're due out on the 19th, and the wound looks a bit raw as if it's split open cause she keeps tugging the stitches, but I guess cats just do that sort of thing.

We had planned on getting a kitty on saturday, but I dragged Adam through every bit of Ikea, and forgot we were still going to stop by the RSPCA, by the time we did get there and had a look they said it was too late to adopt . Sunday had a news story saying that they were overrun with kittens and adam was sure by the time we were done our diving for the day all the little 'uns would be gone. Luckily I spotted her and jumped in before the little 10yo could get her . Does that make me a mean person .

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ahh its a cutie babel

makes me miss my kitty i used to have.. but now i have fish that feel extremely safe in their tanks!

kitties will scratch and lick at their stitches its a bit difficult to try n stop them. if its really worrying you maybe take it to ur local vet for a check up!

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Truth doesn't always win friends but it influences them

e-collar her if she's playing with her stitches. Find a nice flowerpot and cut the bottom out and punch some collar holes and stick it over her head. She'll hate it, but if you can give it a few more days to heal before she goes reefing things out of it, it should be OK.

She's adorable

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

I love those mixed color kitties. Someone told me they're called patched tabbies. When I was little I got 3 of them from a litter of feral kittens the neighbor wanted to be rid of and snuck them into my room. I got caught though and was only allowed to keep 1.

tortoiseshell or calico is the common names. predominantly female with only a few reported male calicos.

She's a cutie! How old? She looks about the same size as my boys Waylon & Xander who are 6 months.

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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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Beautiful coloring!

When our cats tried to pull on their stitches, we would put some nasty tasting medicine on them. If they kept licking the medicine & we were afraid they would get sick from it, then we slathered it with petroleum jelly. If they lick that stuff off it's actually good for them as when it goes through their system it collects all the hair balls with it.

Normally you put it on the top of one of their feet & they will lick it off.

We have 6 cats so I know what you're going through. Fun, isn't it!?

I wish you all many happy years together!

A cat with stripes on random brown and black patches is supposedly not a calico or tortioseshell. I got yelled at by some fancy cat people who breed and show for that one. It's not the true calico gene. They called them patched tabbies instead especially if they have very little white.

"Fancy cat people"

Sorry but I gotta snicker at those people, I really don't understand paying tons for a cat or dog, a freebie or a rescue is just as cute and fun. Sometimes even better, cause some of them you're rescuing from death .

Good idea fishpatty, she does seem to behaving herself with them better now she'll stop if I tell her No.

Calla, adam thought you meant a regular flower pot, in which case we wouldn't have even needed to drill a hole in it she could have fit her head through the drain hole ! But yeah, she does seem to be behaving herself a bit better so finigers crossed.

Today she's managed to make sure the diningroom curtains have plenty of holes, make sure the dishwasher was dry, knock over a stack of packing boxes for equarium while subduing the guest mattress, and play cat in the hat in adams work hat ...and of course it's only just after 10 in the morining!

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Taken from Fanciers.com:

"A 'patched tabby and white' or 'torbie and white' may have any amount of white. A patched tabby with a lot of white, like a calico, has large distinct patches of color, and is sometimes called a 'patterned calico,' 'calico tabby,' or 'caliby'."

From what I've read about cat coat genetics over time, the "patched tabbies" and calicos are actually caused by the same condition, but slightly different genes are involved. Both patched tabbies and calicos are caused by inequalities in the way the coat color genes are expressed...

To begin with, the cat needs to have different alleles of coat color on each of the X-chromosomes, one for orange tabby (dominant) and one for regular tabby/black (recessive). Then on some parts of the cat, the allele for coat color on one of the X-chromosomes needs to be inactivated.

If the dominant allele (orange tabby) is inactivated, the recessive allele (regular tabby or black) will be expressed on those parts, creating a calico cat. If no genes are inactivated or the recessive allele is inactivated, you will have a regular orange tabby.

Interestingly, female cats with partial X-inactivation are more common than female cats without it (which is why there are more calico/tortie/patched tabby females than completely orange females). Male calico/tortie cats are those with Klinefelter's Syndrome (XXY). I'm not sure what happens when the coat color allele X-chromosome on a normal male cat is inactivated/partially inactivated, if that can even happen... Perhaps just an orange and white/black and white cat/all white cat?

Anyway, the conditions that cause calicos and patched tabbies are exactly the same, it just depends on whether the cat has the gene for regular tabby coat or black (melanistic) coat. The orange parts on calicos and patched tabbies are always tabby-patterned.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

That post reminds me of my genetics prof's story on how he lost a bet in college thanks to Klinefelter's...

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natalie - how good are you at equine color genetics/patterns?

Equine genetics I can do. I even took a college class on that. Try the coat color link on:http://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/~lvmillon/
Cat genetics never interested me for some reason. Much more complicated combinations and less information easily available. Of course breeding horses makes it more interesting while I don't really see a point in breeding certain colors or characteristics of cats unless it's a somewhat rare breed. I wouldn't mind a bengal kitten but that's not exactly your everyday cat and even if I had the money Chris would murder me. He hates cats.

I don't know anything about horses... Only cats and snakes.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

still far more than me