Talk:Peter

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Amazingly enough, Peter is a calico, thus meaning the malenamed cat is A FEMALE. A male calico should have the traits defined in TOW article below, leading it to be retard or sterile (or both). Being a female with a male name means Peter is an awesome (and probably the cutest we'll ever see) antitrap and troll. Some argue that Peter is a female cat named Sesame which recently died (see pic at http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/3649/1240576766007.jpg). Another thing we can note about "Peter" is that he's quite a small cat, thus its body is unlikely the one of an adult male.

Cuntpasting from TOW: Tortoiseshell describes a coat coloring found almost exclusively in female cats. Cats of this color are mottled, with patches of red and black, chocolate, or cinnamon. They are sometimes called torties for short.

The term "tortoiseshell" (also called calimanco or clouded tiger in North America) is typically reserved for cats with brindled coats that have relatively few or no white markings. Those that are largely white with red and black patches (rather than a brindled aspect) are described as tortoiseshell-and-white (in the United Kingdom) or calico (in the United States). Tortoiseshells and calicos are not specific breeds of cat. The tortoiseshell markings appear in many different breeds. This pattern is especially preferred in the Japanese Bobtail breed.

For a cat to be a tortoiseshell or calico, it must simultaneously express both of the alleles, O and o, which are two versions of the same gene, located at the same locus on the X Chromosome. Males normally cannot do this: they can have only one allele, as they have only one X Chromosome; consequently, virtually all tortoiseshell or calico cats are females. Occasionally a male calico is born (at a rate of approximately 1 in 3,000). These may have Klinefelter's syndrome, the carrying of an extra X-Chromosome, and will almost always be sterile. Alternatively, a male calico/tortoiseshell may be a chimera, resulting from the fusion of two differently colored embryos.