What Kind of cat do you get if you breed a common brown and black tabby with a ginger cat?
Montgomery B asked:
I’ve read that the most common type of cat is the brown and black tabby cat and that it has the most dominant genes. I was just wondering what happens when you breed it with a different type of cat; spicifically a ginger one.
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I’ve read that the most common type of cat is the brown and black tabby cat and that it has the most dominant genes. I was just wondering what happens when you breed it with a different type of cat; spicifically a ginger one.
If possible give references…
January 13th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Pursiun cat is the best
January 16th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
try it and see what colour they come out
January 17th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
A chocolate orange….lol
January 18th, 2009 at 2:44 am
u cant really tell due to the different genetic make up in the cats as they are not pure breeds …they could come out any colour …
January 20th, 2009 at 4:42 am
Tortoise shell moggy most likely.
January 22nd, 2009 at 10:18 am
probably a ginger tabby
January 22nd, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Because cats carry genes for colours that are not always obvious when looking at them, you can often get a surprising range of colours in a litter of kittens. If you bred grey & ginger tabbies together, you’re most likely to get ginger kittens & tabby kittens, and maybe a tortoiseshell as well. Most likely tabby kittens though. Mixing two colours together doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll end up with a colour somewhere in the middle. It all depends on gentics.
January 24th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
You will get more domestic cats. The colours will depend on the genetics of both cats.
Tabby is a colour not a breed as is ginger.
If they are short hair - DSH Domestic short hair
Fluffy - DMH Domestic medium hair
Very fluffy like you see on persians - DLH Domestic long hair
As for the tabby being the most common, in our cattery this year we have been inundated with blacks and black and white cats - go figure
January 26th, 2009 at 5:05 am
It’s a luck of the draw really. I know a cat that had a grey tabby mother and an orange tabby father and the kitten came out mostly grey tabby but with orange areas.
January 27th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Ginger and black are both recessive genes. This means when you breed any cat with a ginger, there is a one in four chance that a kitten will be ginger. Cats however usually have litters of 3 or four kittens at a time. Thus, you are likely to get 1 black (it looks black but is rarely absolutely black), 1 ginger and 2 tabby’s in this cross.
January 29th, 2009 at 5:16 am
Could be anything. Domestic cats have mixed genes and the babies can come out any which way.
The question is why would you want to breed a cat when millions are being killed in the shelters every year due to lack of homes?
Please spay and neuter both.
Purrs,
The Cat Lady
January 29th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
a brown black and ginger tabby
January 31st, 2009 at 6:48 am
It depends…my kitten is white underneath and a mixture of ginger, white and black, one of her sisters is all white with grey tail and ears and her other sister is all white with ginger ears and tail…their mother was white, ginger and black and their dad was all black…so it just depends..don’t expect the colour you want when you breed cats.