More Genetics please

Ok so last time we talked about the first litter that Snowball and I had. Now let's see what you think happened in the next litter we had, and does any one care to guess how many kittens we had in Snowballs 3rd litter, my 2nd?

Did we have a cat that looked like this?

Introducing Skittles

Or Like this?

Introducing Patches

 

Or this?

Last but not least. Introducing Alexander.

Ok the answer is none of the above. Neither Skittles, Patches or Alexander were from the relationship of Snowball and myself, Night. In fact the next litter surprised us all when Snowball and I had not 1 or 2 but 3 happy healthy kittens in the next and last and final litter.

The first to be born in this litter was Pumpkin, otherwise known as Punkie for short.

The next brother born was Mitts.

And last but not least in this final litter was Cotton.

Did I mention that when I was born that I came from a litter that had 3 orange stripped tigers in the litter. I think Punkie got his stripes from me. At least that is what I tell Snowball, and that is what she reminds me of whenever Punkie pisses her off. 

So next time I will try and go into the characteristics of the kids before we move on to the stray Honey that moved into my house.

Ok so last time I asked what you think you get when you take a female that looks like this.


Snowball





and myself that looks like this


Night



and you mate us.

Do you get



A)


Lucky




B)


Helios




C)


Patches






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The answer is..... Helios.




He is from our first litter. Did you know that in order to have an all black cat that you must have some sort of Siamese in them? Here you can read up on this at this link here.


Black Cats



Snowball and I had Helios and another sibling that was still born in our first litter together. This litter was the 2nd one for Snowball. In her first litter she had 4 kittens and when she came to live with our home there were two kittens still alive. One was Lucky and the other was a sibling that passed the next morning. When Helios  was first born he was totally white, but as time went on his Siamese markings came in.

OK so think you know what to expect of cat genetics? Next time we will take about what was in the next litter of Kittens that Me and Snowball had.