I am not an expert with cats and I feel so stupid for asking but I have to. Okay when a female cat is bred with with more than one male cat {outside cats for example} can the males genes mix with the kitten? Like can the kitten have two or so fathers? Cuz I see kittens all the time that have features of one cat and then have the features of another cat also. I know, it's dumb to ask but I am curious! Thank you!
2007-01-21 11:23:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Cats
Not that I know of. I'm not a scientist or cat expert either, but if you think about that, it doesn't sound very logical. People have some characteristics of other people don't they? That doesn't mean you had more than one father, just that the recessive and dominant jeans in your parents didnt work out the same as one of theirs.
2007-01-21 11:42:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One kitten, one father. So this does allow for a litter of six kittens to have six different fathers. Or three or just one. Also explains why in one litter you'll have kittens from all across the color and markings spectrum.
If you're interested there is a great book called The Character of Cats that goes into detail about litter behavior and sirring; the colors and marking of the domestic cat and how they came about; and even why females will actively mate with several males in the area when an alpha male is present.
Hope this helps. -- Andy
2007-01-21 13:31:01 · answer #2 · answered by Andy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Each egg is one potential kitten. It gets fertilized by ONE male. There are many eggs released by a female, so the kittens can have different fathers, but one one father per kitten!!
It is hard with cats. It is not like taking a female Lab and knowing that the fathers are a Samoyed or a Beagle. With those two potential fathers, you have a good chance of picking out the puppies that go woth each father. With cats, since they are generally no particular breed, it is hard to tell. I have seen a tiger female have kittens that span the rainbow! Who knows who the father or fathers are. You cannot tell just by colors.
2007-01-21 11:27:28 · answer #3 · answered by ARE YOUR NEWFS GELLIN'? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. One cat can only have genes from two cats, her mother and her father. Cats, like people, only get one father. It's possible the two cats you think this one cat looks like both have the same father.
2007-01-21 11:29:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An individual kitten can have only one father but you can have kittens with different fathers in the same litter.
2007-01-21 11:26:53 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A litter can have more then one father but a single kitten can only have one father.
2007-01-21 12:16:13 · answer #6 · answered by Great Dane Lover 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i wager that's like with the intention to be tortoiseshell the cat has to have 2 X chromosomes which will be inactivated so, by some ability, random aspects of the cat develop into black and aspects orange, and male mammals have in user-friendly words one X chromosome (XY) that would want to't be inactivated, so its one colour or the different, so a male tortoiseshell cat is very uncommon--in user-friendly words a million in 3,000 tortoiseshell cats are male, & those that are male in many cases have an more advantageous X chromosome (XXY) and are for this reason sterile. whew! haha :)
2016-12-02 20:55:34 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many males can sire kittens of their own in a litter
2007-01-21 12:32:45 · answer #8 · answered by Calais 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One mother one father. If an egg was inseminated twice it would result in twins
2007-01-21 11:30:51 · answer #9 · answered by fluffybunny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋