{"id":3864,"date":"2019-12-04T04:04:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T12:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2019-12-04T04:04:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T12:04:34","slug":"wild-and-sometimes-crazy-wednesday-whos-the-daddy-a-ginger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3864","title":{"rendered":"Wild (and Sometimes Crazy) Wednesday \u2013Who’s the Daddy–A Ginger????"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Interesting\/shocking fact: Smokey’s sire is probably an orange tabby!<\/p>\n

Yesterday we talked about cat genetics. And I told you I\u2019ve been dabbling in this topic a little for a future Klepto Cat Mystery. Well, during my search, I connected with a cat DNA specialist who\u2019s on staff at a major university and I discovered that Smokey\u2019s (aka Rags\u2019s) sire (a roaming neighborhood cat) was probably a red (orange, ginger, marmalade) cat. Now\"\" that was a surprise.<\/p>\n

As some of you may know, Smokey’s mother was a Ragdoll. Some of the kittens looked like Mama, there was a calico and there were a few solid grey kittens and Smokey\u2014dark grey-and-white.<\/p>\n

\"\"My sister-in-law (who owned the Ragdoll) saw an orange shorthair in the neighborhood at the time of perceived conception, and a black cat. I would have thought what most of you are probably thinking\u2014yeah, Smokey is probably a product of the black cat.<\/p>\n

But the scientist ran the numbers\u2014the formula related to cat coloring\u2014and she has determined that Smokey\u2019s father is most likely the orange cat my sister-in-law saw or another orange cat\u2014not the black one. Now I\u2019m trying to figure out how to use that tidbit in Book 41. Oh, do I have fun writing these stories for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interesting\/shocking fact: Smokey’s sire is probably an orange tabby! Yesterday we talked about cat genetics. And I told you I\u2019ve been dabbling in this topic a little for a future Klepto Cat Mystery. Well, during my search, I connected with … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3865,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions\/3865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}