History of the Police Activities League. The P.A.L. started with a bang -- a rock through a window, to be more precise. A youth gang in New York City, harassing storekeepers and generally making life miserable in the neighborhood, caused the problem that pioneered the concept of the Police Athletic League. Lieutenant Ed Flynn of the New York Police Departmentâs Crime Prevention Bureau liked kids.
The red and tortoiseshell colors were introduced into the breed in the 1930s by crossing purebred Siamese with red tabby or tortoiseshell British Shorthair cats carrying orange (O) genes. The Red Point Siamese cat family merits a page of its own, and includes Red, Cream, and Apricot Points.
Cats come in an amazing variety of colors and patterns. It is not unusual to see many different colors in the same litter of kittens. There are two primary colors in cats-black and red. All other colors are variations of black and red with the exception of solid white. White is a masking gene. It hides-masks-all other color. So a solid white cat is either black or red but the color is hidden by the white.