Thanks. :-) She's about 2.5 years old. I got her as a Christmas present to myself in 2007, from a shelter in Connecticut that told me they thought she was ~11 months old. She looks exactly the same now as she did then (well, maybe she's a little sleeker, and a tad bit plumper--she had worms when I got her). :-P
I had never thought about the rarity of an orange female cat before, though when you mentioned it, I couldn't remember ever seeing another one. So I looked it up on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_coat_genetics#Genes_involved_in_orange.2C_black.2C_brown.2C_and_diluted_colors Seems it's related to the calico effect! Very interesting.
Edit: if you click on the Claire tag, or the Pictures tag, there are some more pictures of her in my journal archive.
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Date: 2009-07-10 12:11 am (UTC)From:Isn't that unusual though, an orange female kitty?
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Date: 2009-07-10 03:55 pm (UTC)From:I had never thought about the rarity of an orange female cat before, though when you mentioned it, I couldn't remember ever seeing another one. So I looked it up on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_coat_genetics#Genes_involved_in_orange.2C_black.2C_brown.2C_and_diluted_colors
Seems it's related to the calico effect! Very interesting.
Edit: if you click on the Claire tag, or the Pictures tag, there are some more pictures of her in my journal archive.