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Pets & Working Animals => Cats => Topic started by: funkyfish on June 18, 2012, 08:51:14 am

Title: Home needed for Ginger girl kitten!
Post by: funkyfish on June 18, 2012, 08:51:14 am: VERY sweet ginger kitten, 4 months, fully vaccinated/flea'd/wormed.

Home needed ASAP- elderly owner signed her over to us (vets) as she got bord of her! This is the 4th cat she has done this with!

Contact me on vanessa@vetnurse.co.uk
Title: Re: Home needed for Ginger girl kitten!
Post by: Rosemary on June 18, 2012, 08:55:27 am: Helps if you say where you are :)
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Post by: jaykay on June 18, 2012, 11:04:11 am: Devon. I looked cos I wondered if my two would take to a kitten. But that's a bit far away from Cumbria.
Title: Re: Home needed for Ginger girl kitten!
Post by: funkyfish on June 18, 2012, 01:45:56 pm: Sorry forgot to put where- East Devon
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Post by: funkyfish on June 18, 2012, 07:14:01 pm: Now found thanks!
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Post by: jaykay on June 18, 2012, 07:34:30 pm: Oh good, I was planning a relay and wondering how my existing ginger girl (and her black and white brother) would react ;)
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Post by: Beeducked on June 20, 2012, 08:34:46 pm: Good, I was wondering if we could fit another in once we've taken the three kittens my sisters "sterilised" cat has just had!
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Post by: lachlanandmarcus on June 20, 2012, 09:49:12 pm: ginger girls very unusual - nearly always male. our vets had never seen one. 'Ginger' (original I know) was our very very loved ginger girlie for 14 years :-)))
Title: Re: Home needed for Ginger girl kitten!
Post by: jaykay on June 21, 2012, 06:58:27 am: I've had two - red tabbies :)

I know the ginger gene is sex-linked, so that females have to have two genes to be ginger but males only one. And only females can be tortoiseshell, since only they can have two genes (one ginger, one black) to create the pattern.

But I'm surprised to hear that ginger females are that rare - I shall let Jinx know she's even more special ;)
Title: Re: Home needed for Ginger girl kitten!
Post by: Mammyshaz on June 21, 2012, 07:13:52 am: Ginger girls are lovely :love: not really in the 'rare' category, I would say less common than other colours but we regularly see then these days compared to 20 years ago.
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Post by: lachlanandmarcus on June 21, 2012, 11:44:40 am: Oh well just what the vet said - they'd been in practice 30 years and had never had one brought into the surgery. Clearly they are all hiding round the place!
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Post by: Mammyshaz on June 21, 2012, 12:06:42 pm: They must all be living around the northeast ;D
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Post by: jaykay on June 21, 2012, 03:04:18 pm: Well, there are more reheaded people in the north (Viking influence :D) so maybe we also like red cats more ;D
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Post by: lachlanandmarcus on June 21, 2012, 03:57:52 pm: That must be it!! :thumbsup: ;D
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Post by: Mammyshaz on June 21, 2012, 06:31:43 pm: Yes we must :thumbsup: and match the fiery natures :innocent: :eyelashes:
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Post by: NormandyMary on July 16, 2012, 10:38:12 am: I always thought that you only got ginger toms, but over here you get hundreds of ginger girls advertised every day. Very strange!