One of the common myths about orange tabby cats is that they are all male.
Large male orange tabby cat.
The majority of orange tabby cats are male.
That s not true though.
You can have a golden tabby a silver tabby a cream tabby or a yellow tabby.
There is simply no such thing as a solid orange tabby though there are orange cat breeds with more or less solid orange fur.
Even garfield is an orange tabby cat.
For reasons that are not fully understood about 80 of orange tabby cats are male.
In reality orange tabby cats can also be female.
Every orange cat is a tabby.
But not every tabby is an orange cat.
As mentioned above tabby cats have stripes dots or some sort of pattern on their coats.
Thus both the mother and father cat must pass on the genes to the female but males only need the trait from their mothers.
Male orange tabby cats outnumber females approximately 4 to 1.
No tabby cat has a solid orange coat.
Orange cats can have long or short hair.
In addition its clear color is spectacular especially in the case of orange with green eyes.
About 20 of orange tabbies are estimated to be female.
This is a really interesting fact and it tells us that sex and coat color genetics are somehow related at least in orange cats.
All orange cats have stripe patterns however faint.
We could say that we are talking about one of the most spectacular and tender looks of the animal kingdom.
The look of the orange tabby cat.
Orange tabby cats are almost always male.
All orange tabby cats are male myth orange tabby cats are some of the most recognized of the bunch.
The average life expectancy of orange tabby cats are 10 16 years.
The percentages are quite low though with only 20.
In addition to being a real purr machine momo the orange tabby cat seeks affection every waking.
More than 75 of orange tabby cats are male.
The orange tabby cats are characterized by having large and expressive eyes like albino cats.
Winston churchill owned an orange tabby cat called tango.
And that s what we ll be focusing on in this article.
Orange tabbies love eating and they are often obese and lazy.
Every cat is an individual but orange cats have a reputation for being snuggly attention lovers.
Churchill was known to have a great affection for felines.
Female cats have xx chromosomes to the male s xy.
Solid orange simply is not a color trait found in cats.
The same statistics stand for female calicos.