The torties' Mom is a real beauty. I'd take her in myself if she
wasn't so feral. Plus my cat has gotten very territorial all of a
sudden and wants to chase them. In February she darted between my
legs as I was opening the door, ran to the back yard and attacked the
momcat. I separated them before any harm was done. Supposedly, there
are some "spay a stray" programs around Tucson that don't charge that
much, so if I can trap her, I can take her in and get her fixed. And
maybe her daughter, too. The darker tortie was killed by a car or a
dog about a month ago. I found the poor thing two days later.

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:57:51 GMT, "Sandy"
wrote:

I had an orange tabby female. She was Sundance's sister -- Sundance is a
male orange tabby-and-white. The YMCA named them Sundance and Cassidy
because they assumed they were both males, but surprise! From what I've
read, orange females are much more common than male calicos or
tortoiseshells, but still unusual. Maybe that's changing, though.

Those are gorgeous tortoiseshells!
---
Sandy

"JPT" wrote in message
news
For a long time I was under the impression that all completely orange
(as opposed to calicos with some orange) cats were males, just as the
vast majority of all torties are female. But I have several strays
that hang out in my back yard, and I've seen what I believed to be an
undersized male nursing her kittens! Are orange females more common
than I thought? Thanks for any info.
Oh, and the kitty is sort of deep orange on top with some tabby orange
stripings on the flanks.
She is closest to the camera in this photo
http://home.earthlink.net/~lazykat67...s/Dscn1899.jpg
and appears on the right in this one
http://home.earthlink.net/~lazykat67...s/Dscn1895.jpg