How'd a Siamese get in this litter?

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Luramao - 25 Jul 2003 05:48 GMT

I was just looking thru the private party adoption web site at
www.k9adopt.org, when I happened upon this: a rescued/stray female gray
& black tiger was up for adoption with her litter which consisted of 3
typical tiger gray & black kittens and a 'Siamese looking one". I
scrolled down and was a bit shocked. The tiger mom and her 3 tiger
kittens looked like typical tigers, not even like part Siamese, but
there at the bottom was.....a Siamese kitten. It didnt look even
'part Siamese" or "half Siamese" .... it looked for all the world like
your typical seal point Siamese kitten (trad type). If the mom mated
with a Siamese tom (a feral Siamese?) shouldn't the other kittens at
least have some kind of Siamese hint in them? (or be those black
oriental types?) I looked just so very odd; a typical tiger
family....with this Siamese thrown in for variety. Is this something
that 'happens'?

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Arjun Ray - 25 Jul 2003 06:24 GMT

| [It] looked just so very odd; a typical tiger family....with this
| Siamese thrown in for variety. Is this something that 'happens'?

Yes. Multiple fathers of a litter are not uncommon. Cats are induced
ovulators: a queen in heat will continue to mate until the body decides
that pregnancy is guaranteed.

(However, other explanations are also possible. For instance, the
siamese could be an orphan, put in with this litter for the wet nurse.)

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Priscilla H Ballou - 25 Jul 2003 17:21 GMT

Luramao <luramao@webtv.net> quoth:

>If the mom mated
>with a Siamese tom (a feral Siamese?) shouldn't the other kittens at
>least have some kind of Siamese hint in them?

A litter of kittens can have more than one father among them. Sounds like
that's what happened in this case.

Priscilla

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