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Hence, they cannot be calico unless they are affected by a rare genetic condition called Klinefelter syndrome, which gives them two X chromosomes and one Y chromosome.
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In addition to other symptoms caused by the condition, these male calicos are often sterile.
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CC, for CopyCat or Carbon Copy (born December 22, 2001), is a brown tabby and white domestic shorthair and the first cloned pet.
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CC was cloned by scientists at Texas A&M University in conjunction with Genetic Savings & Clone Inc
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CC surrogate mother was a tabby but her genetic donor Rainbow was a calico domestic shorthair.
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The difference in hair coloration between CC and Rainbow is due to x inactivation and epigenetic re-programming, which normally occurs in a fertilised embryo before implantation.
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In September 2006, CC gave birth to four live kittens.
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Another kitten (a female) was stillborn.
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This incident was the first time a cloned pet gave birth.CC appears to be free of the cloning-related health problems that have arisen in some other animal clones.
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CC has always been a perfectly normal cat and her kittens are just that way, too, says Shirley Kraemer CC's owner.
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In 2004, Genetic Savings and Clone would go on to produce the first commercially cloned pet, a Maine Coon cat named Little Nicky who was cloned from a 17 year old deceased pet cat.
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A Cornish Rex is a breed of domestic cat.
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The Cornish Rex has no hair except for down.
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Cornish Rexes have the undercoat.They are prone to hair loss and many will develop a very thin coat or even go bald over large parts of their body.
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The curl in Cornish Rexes fur is caused by a different mutation and gene than that of the Devon Rex.The breed originated in Cornwall, Great Britain
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The Norwegian Forest cat is a breed of domestic cat originating in Northern Europe.
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The Norwegian Forest cat breed is adapted to a very cold climate, with a top coat of glossy, long, water-shedding hairs and a woolly undercoat for insulation.
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Although this is uncertain, the breed's ancestors may have been a landrace of short-haired cats brought to Norway by the Vikings around 1000 AD, who may also have brought with them long-haired cats, like those ancestral to the modern Siberian and Turki Angora breeds
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During World War II, the breed became nearly extinct until efforts by the Norwegian Forest Cat Club helped the breed by creating an official breeding program.
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Currently, the Norwegian Forest breed is very popular in Norway, Sweden, Iceland and France.It is a big, strong cat, similar to the Maine Coon breed, with long legs, a bushy tail and a sturdy body.
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Norwegian Forest is very good at climbing, since they have strong claws.The lifespan is usually 14 to 16 years, though kidney and heart diseases have been reported in the breed.
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Dusty the Klepto Kitty is a domestic Snowshoe cat who gained notoriety in early 2011 for his acts of "cat burglary".
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Dusty the Klepto Kitty earned the nickname Klepto Kitty after bringing home more than 600 items from the gardens he prowled at night.
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Gladstone is the resident Chief Mouser of HM Treasury at Whitehall, London.
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He is a domestic short-haired cat who at eighteen months old, assumed the position of Chief Mouser in late June 2016.
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Gladstone political namesake is former Chancellor and Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone who served for four separate periods, more than any other Prime Minister.
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The hope is Gladstone will control mice at the Treasury's 1 Horse Guards Road building.
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The inception of the position of Chief Mouser at the Treasury follows the creation of similar positions at Number 10 and the Foreign Office, with those positions being held by Larry and Palmerston, as of July 2016.
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The appointment of Gladstone as Chief Mouser to the Treasury was officially announced on 29 July 2016.
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Gladstone was taken to his new home at the Treasury in late June 2016, but the fallout from the referendum.
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The California Spangled is a breed of domestic cat that was bred to resemble spotted wild cats, like the ocelot and leopard.
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The California Spangled were originally bred in the 1980s and were only ever a rare breed, with only 58 ever being registered.
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The California Spangled were usually expensive, priced between US$800 and $2,500.
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The popularity of two other spotted cats breeds, the Ocicat and the Bengal overshadowed their development.
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California Spangled cats are a crossbreed of many strains, including the Abyssinian, American Shorthair and British Shorthair.
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Fred the Undercover Kitty (May 2005 – August 9, 2006) was a domestic shorthaired cat.
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Fred the Undercover Kitty gained attention for his undercover work with the New York Police Department and the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office.
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The Asian Semi-Longhair is a cat breed similar to the Asian Shorthair except it has semi-long fur.
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The breed is also known by the name Tiffanie or Tiffany.
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It is recognized in any of the Asian Shorthair or Burmese colors and patterns.
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Like the Asian Shorthair, the breed was developed in Asia
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Peter, the Lord's cat (1950 - 5 November 1964), also known as The Marylebone mog was a cat who lived at Lord's Cricket Ground in London from 1952 to 1964.
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Peter, the Lord's cat is the only animal to be given an obituary in the standard cricket reference book, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
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The obituary appeared in the 1965 edition of Wisden, under the name CAT, PETER
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Peter is mentioned in the title of a 2006 anthology of Wisden obituaries, Peter, the Lord's Cat And Other Unexpected Obituaries from Wisden.
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Palmerston is the resident Chief Mouser of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) at Whitehall in London.
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Previously, he was from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home and is named after the former Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston.
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Palmerston was in the news on 3 May 2016, as it was reported that he had caught his first mouse.
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On 11 July 2016, Palmerston was caught on camera in a stand-off between himself and Larry in and around Downing Street.
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On 26 July 2016, Palmerston was caught sneaking into Number 10, when the famous black door was left open.
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On 1 August 2016, a journalist caught Palmerston and Larry having a serious cat-fight, which led to Palmerston having damage to his ear and Larry losing his collar.
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In October 2017, Palmerston "appointed" his first overseas envoys.
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Lawrence of Abdoun a rescued black-and-white street tomcat, was given a role at the British Embassy in Amman, Jordan.
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Lawrence of Abdoun is named after British military officer, T.E.Lawrence and the neighbourhood in Amman where the embassy is located.
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Leyla Pixie an orphaned kitten from Turkey was adopted by the British Consulate General in Istanbul.
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Dewey Readmore Books (November 18, 1987 – November 29, 2006) was the library cat of the Spencer, Iowa, Public Library.
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The story of Dewey Readmore Books became so well known that, after his death in December 2006, his obituary was featured in more than 270 newspapers worldwide.
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Dewey caretaker, head librarian Vicki Myron, published a book on the life of Dewey life in 2008, entitled Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, which became a New York Times number one nonfiction bestseller.
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Little Nicky (born October 17, 2004) is the first commercially produced cat clone.
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Little Nicky owner, a north Texas woman named Julie paid $50,000 to have Nicky cloned.
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Little Nicky owner reported that the cat shared many characteristics with his predecessor, including a similar personality and appearance.
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Room 8 (1947–1968) was a neighborhood cat who wandered into a classroom in 1952 at Elysian Heights Elementary School in Echo Park, California.
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Elysian Heights Elementary School has a wall mural on the outside of the school that features Room 8, and the teachers read his book to each new class.
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The paw prints of Room 8 are immortalized in cement on the sidewalk outside the school.
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The Australian Mist formerly known as the Spotted Mist is a breed of cat developed in Australia.
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Nutmeg (1986 - August 29, 2017) was a tabby domestic cat owned by Liz Finlay and Ian Finlay.
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Nutmeg was born in 1986, making him one of the oldest living cats until his death at age 31 in 2017.
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However, he wasn’t the oldest cat in the world; Creme Puff was, at 38 years old.
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Despite his long life, Nutmeg did not qualify for Guinness World Records because there is no documentation to prove his age.
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Nutmeg birth date is unknown, but he was said to be around 5 years old when he was adopted in 1990.
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Oscar is an all black cat owned by Kate Allan and Mike Nolan who lives on the Channel Island of Jersey.
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In 2009 Oscar had both hind paws severed by a combine harvester.Since then he has undergone a pioneering operation to add prosthetic feet.
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A book about the story of Oscar was published in 2013.
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Mrs Chippy was a cat (actually male) who accompanied Sir Ernest Shackleton Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917.
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Scarlett’s Magic is a leopard-printed Savannah cat, acclaimed by the Guinness World Records as the former world’s tallest living domestic cat.
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The record has since been broken by Arcturus Aldebaran Powers who stands 19.1 inches tall.
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In 2010, Scarlett’s Magic was also awarded a second Guinness World Record for longest, living, domestic cat (feline) at 108.51 centimeters or 42.72 inches in length and is the first animal to simultaneously hold two Guinness World Records.
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Freya (born April 2009) is a tabby cat owned by the former Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom George Osborne and his family.
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In September 2012, Freya shared the role of Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office with the Downing Street cat Larry.
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In November 2014, Freya was retired from the position to the Kent countryside.
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The Abyssinian is a breed of domestic short-haired cat with a distinctive "ticked" tabby coat, in which individual hairs are banded with different colors.
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The breed is named for Abyssinia now called Ethiopia where it is believed to have originated.
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The German Rex is a breed of domestic cat.
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The Exotic Shorthair is a breed of cat developed as a short-haired version of the Persian.
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The Exotic is similar to the Persian in many ways, including temperament and conformation, a flat nose and face with the exceptions of the short dense coat.
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In the late 1950s, the Persian was used as an outcross by some American Shorthair breeders.
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This was done in secret in order to improve their body type, and crosses were also made with the Russian Blue and the Burmese.
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The crossbreed look gained recognition in the show ring, but unhappy American Shorthair breeders successfully produced a new breed standard that would disqualify American Shorthairs that showed signs of crossbreeding.
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One American Shorthair breeder who saw the potential of the Persian and American Shorthair cross proposed and eventually got the Cat Fanciers' Association judge and American Shorthair breeder Jane Martinke to recognize them as a new breed in 1966, under the name Exotic Shorthair.
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Paddles (2016 – 7 November 2017) was a ginger and white polydactyl cat, owned by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her partner.
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Paddles was a rescue cat, adopted by Ardern from a branch of the SPCA.
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Paddles became a celebrity as the "First Cat" after Ardern took office, and a Twitter account was established in her name.
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Paddles interrupted the congratulatory phone call from US President Donald Trump.
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Paddles was run over by a car and killed in the Auckland suburb of Point Chevalier on 7 November 2017.
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Willow also known as Willow the cat is a calico cat who travelled 1,800 miles from Westminster, Colorado, to New York City.
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Willow was discovered in September 2011, 5 years after escaping during a renovation, when her implanted microchip was scanned at an animal shelter.
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Anderson Cooper reunited Willow with her family, the Squireses, via satellite on 15 September 2011.
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Beerbohm (21 March 1995) was a cat that resided at the Gielgud Theatre in London.
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Beerbohm was born in the theatre, which was then named the Globe, and was named after actor and theatre manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree.
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Beerbohm became renowned for attacking props and wandering into the actors' dressing rooms.
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