From the irregular-sized eggs to the twisted carrots in the garden, homegrown food has a rustic charm that screams, âIâm the real deal!â. However, there are a lot of folks who very accustomed to the uniform, âeverything must look exactly the sameâ food from the grocery store.
A true calico cat is orange -- sometimes referred to as red -- black and white. The cat typically has patches of these colors in varying sizes and locations over her entire body.
A. Not true in either case. But male calicos are rare: Only one out of every 3,000 calico cats is male, according to a study by the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri. The gene that governs how the orange color in cats displays is on the X chromosome. Any cat, male or female, can be orange, but in males the color is nearly always expressed in the tabby (striped) pattern, sometimes called a ginger tom. Females can be orange tabby, calico or tortoiseshell. Because the orange is divided among tabbies, torties or calicoes in females, there are fewer of each type.