Can orange cats only be male and calico cats only be female?

Question

I've never seen an orange cat that was a female or a calico cat that was a male. Have any of you?

Answer 1

No. Orange females are fairly common. I see a lot of them at the shelter I work at.
Calico/torti males are rare however. If you see them, they are usually sterile. People think they are worth a ton of money, but that is not true.

Answer 2

Sort of Here's the bests I understand/can explain it Calicos To have both orange AND black on the same cat requires two X Chromisomes. XX= Female. Males don't usually have two X's. That's why calicos (white, orange, black) are almost always females. Occasionally, there will be a "male" that is XXY. It will apparently be a male, and can be calico. THey are almost always sterile As for female orange tabbies, I had one as a child. She had kittens, too. Odds of an orange tabby female are very low though. Unlike male caliocs, they don't have to be genetic "mutants" BUT the odds are stacked against them. For example, they would HAVE to have a mother and father both with orange. For example, a calico mated with an orange tabby male could potentially have female orange tabby kittens. From what I understand. Hope that answers your questions. Thumbs down to the person who said "A few rare cases have been reported in which sterile, deformed, or sickly kittens have been born as female oranges or male calicos, but they often die young and cannot reproduce." That is NOT true of female oranges. As I said, THEY are not a genetic mutation, they just beat "the odds" of having the exact right combination of parents and genes. (kinda like the odds of two brown eyed parents having a blue-eyed child). It's somewhat true of calico males. At least being sterile. I don't know about sickly. Again, they are a genetic mutation (XXY instead of XY)

Answer 3

Not true, we have had many orange cats that were female...yet I have not ever personally seen a male calico so that may be true...someone told me they had but myself I have never seen one, it must be something to do with genes.

Answer 4

There are orange females but male calicos are extremely rare since it is sex linked genetic trait and the rare male that is calico is typically sterile.

Answer 5

Yes. I have a cat that is pure nice orange and its a female. So what.

Answer 6

I have a female calico and I have heard that all calicos are females.

Answer 7

We had a lovely orange female named Ginger.

Answer 8

orange cats can be female and male.but calico are female

Answer 9

My Cybil is an orange cat..she's also longhair :)