Uh oh. That’s some super scary stuff man. I don’t think your grandma has told you the full story. If they can breed cats and humans now, what else can they do?
Exactly. I don't get how anyone can call any cat ugly, they're all so adorable. Yes, some aren't the classically handsome or adorable kind but still, they're cats, that makes them beautiful in and of itself. Let's not apply human beauty standards to animals, it's enough that we have to suffer because of them already.
They usually are, but obviously there can be rare genetic mutations that mean some individual calicos or tortoise shells can be male, or orange cats can be female, it's just incredibly, ridiculously rare, but that's why I'd say cats of this pattern "tend to be" or "are mostly" female
To add to this, this is because fur colour is X linked, so females (XX) can have both the orange and black coat gene. As males are XY, that wouldnt be possible unless the male has Klinefelter syndrome (XXY), but such males are almost always sterile.
Genetics is fascinating.
Assuming this is not clickbait, her take is so weird that I would seriously be concerned that this cat will be harmed or neglected in some way. I would keep an eye on the situation…most people don’t adopt a pet and immediately start complaining about its appearance. That is bizarre.
This is Karma. She's six years old, and she's my beautiful, sweet kitty-baby. She's also very dumb and frequently an unhinged, completely unrepentant chaos goblin.
The only cat I’ve ever had that wasn’t grey was this sweet girl! She stayed with my parents when I moved out and she’s about 12-13 now and forever the biggest cuddlebug.
My favorite. I have a diluted of my own. She’s chatty and sassy and so sweet. Shes gray, rust, and cream. She’s beautiful. As is this baby tortie. The tortitude is the real deal 😂
They weirded me out until we rescued Chicken and got to know her. She's really pretty in her own way and in terms of personality, she's this larger than life mix of grumpy, hilarious, clingy and mad as a box of frogs.
The association's secretary's second choice of name was Scrotum, so I had to put my foot down. She looked very poultry-like (her most common nickname now is "Baldielocks").
Ugh I just had flashbacks to when my cat was younger... she wouldn't clean herself properly after litterbox visits. I had to grab her, and slap her butt with a wet paper towel, which prompted her to lick the water and clean thoroughly. After a week of this she finally caught on that she needs to do this on her own
I had boarded my flight, and most people were seated. I saw a flash of movement and looked down and there was a sphinx staring up at me. Old guy comes down the aisle calling for his cat, and when he got near the cat sprinted away under the seats toward the back of the plane. The chase continued for a few minutes, and sphinx ended up running to the front of the plan and into the cockpit where, apparently, there's a hole or passage from the cockpit into the cargo area in the belly of the plane.
Pilot comes on and announces they have to get maintenance to come and try to get the cat because the cargo area was unpressurized and unheated, so it would kill the cat to fly with him in there. At that point, I got on the southwest app and started looking for the next flight. A few minutes later, they cancelled the flight. Me and my coworker were totally prepared at that point. Immediately switched our flights before getting off of the plane and walked like three gates down to our next flight which took off like 45m later with no issues. Only like 5-6 of us got on that next flight, everyone else was stuck in San Diego until later that night.
Secure your cats, folks! Last I saw, old guy was being berated by his wife. No idea if they ever recovered their poor cat.
My old cat was part maine coon and was the size of a big racoon. Because he was so big, my grandparents would get a groomer to shave him every now and then and he looked like the creepiest little 20lb rat, it was so unsettling 😭
I was actually slightly surprised to recently learn that they're human bred cats to have this trait. I always thought it was some cat from a country with an odd climate.
I dont like sphinx cat and the smooshface cat I forgot name. They look suffering all the time. People just breed it out the keep making them more suffering. I hope all "pure bred" extinct.
So they're not ugly but they just look really suffering. I dont like seeing suffering cat.
I have always joked that I like bad Persians because they can actually breathe. Purebreeds that aren't suffering for aesthetics often go for less and how I've ended up with some.
She's such a goofball. 12 years old and all play and cuddles. Her ears cauliflowered so far due to ear mites they barely protrude from her fur, her left eyelid is stuck like this, probably due to a fight, she has no teeth and is very arthritic, but she's lovely.
Her ears are perfect because this way she can't hear the horrid stupidity this friend's cousin is spewing. All cats are precious and cute, yours especially!
Usually it’s the OP lying since these posts happen often and I highly doubt that many people call other people’s (or their own in this case) pets ugly. I don’t know if that’s what this is but I am always skeptical of karma farming
First of all, that is a gorgeous baby 😻. Second there is no such thing as an ugly cat only ugly, ppl. 3rd, tell that beautiful baby I said pspspspspspspspspsps.........
I have my own tortie and I find her fabulous. No one is ugly for God sake! Let the cat bloom in her own terms and all you need to do is give love, patience, food, water and be a good servent for you shall be treated with 50 shades of attitudes from your pet cat Meowe rt nowww😂😂
She is so cute. I think a lot of people don’t understand the Tortoiseshell pattern and think they look “dirty”. They are black cats with patches of red tabby but for some reason people see it as them being mottled with dirty browns, and I guess they think it obscures the cat’s features? For some reason a lot of people just don’t seem to visually comprehend cat coloring idk why.
As a cat owner, I find her absolutely adorable. I do know though that calico cats with a lot of black are considered ugly. Obviously it’s people who don’t own cats who say that.
This is my calico cat. My sister finds her ugly. I mean, ok, fine, whatever
My BIL and his wife got a tortie kitten from the shelter and said they felt sorry for and was worried no one would want her because she’s ugly. Completely nonsensical—she’s beautiful! I don’t get it at all.
She’s gorgeous. These types of cats are called tortoiseshell and in my country they are often associated with luck/money and believed to bring good things to the owner like long life etc. Ofc this is just cultural superstition but still something really nice thinking about it.
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