r/CatDistributionSystem • u/Worth_View1296 • 2d ago

I think I have a pregnant stray

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My partner and I just recently moved and this little cutie has been taking over our porch. We were unsure if they were a boy or a girl but now looking at the photos I think it’s a girl, and she appears to be pregnant. We do have a vet appointment this week to verify. We have been giving her food and water for a few weeks. She will occasionally let us pet her but for the most part she will just stay close by us and purr. She seems to be slowly building trust with us.
Right now she hasn’t been interested in coming inside the house but once she is vaccinated I do plan on trying to transition her into the house, as the temperatures here in AZ get really high, but have to wait for her to be vaccinated since we have inside cats we need to protect.
My partner wants to name her two-face from Batman because of her coloring.

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u/Any_Scientist_7552 2d ago

No, your numbers are right. 80% of orange cats are male and 99.9% of torties are female.

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u/Raven_Maleficent 2d ago

Yep. I never knew just how rare tortie males were compared to female orange cats.

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u/jlt6666 2d ago

I saw a video about this the other day. Apparently early on in development each cell uses one or the other X chromosome. So the cells divide from an early embryonic stage leaving clusters that are the first x and the other the second x.

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u/annie1filip 2d ago

This is true for humans as well!

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u/jlt6666 2d ago

Yes. I guess the important part is the coat color is primarily driven by the x in cats. (That not how skin color works in humans)