Louie

Posted on December 11, 2006 by | 5 Comments

Louie.jpg
In Memoriam
Louie adopted my mother-in-law. He lived outside and roamed that small block of houses. He was killed by a car about a month ago. This is the only picture of him, which my daugther took last summer.

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5 responses to “Louie”

  1. anomalous4's avatar anomalous4 | December 11, 2006 at 11:17 am |

    Awwwwwwwwwww, what a sweetie! He would have been a she though. Like calicos, torties are female (chimeric effect of X-linked black vs. tan genes depending on which X chromosome gets turned off in various parts of the embryo).
    But no matter. Almost all cats are sweeties, especially the ones that adopt you. I’ve had it happen twice, and years later I still miss them both.

  2. coturnix's avatar coturnix | December 11, 2006 at 11:49 am |

    Actually, you are right – I never thought about it. I only saw the cat a couple of times there and did not thing about it when everyone saids it was a boy.

  3. The Ridger's avatar The Ridger | December 11, 2006 at 2:29 pm |

    Actually, there are a few XXY male torties and calicos. I have a memory from my college days that there was a lot of research done on them since no particular work needs to be done to find the XXY males – you just take a look. That was 30-odd years ago now, though, so maybe they aren’t used much anymore.

  4. Reed A. Cartwright's avatar Reed A. Cartwright | December 11, 2006 at 6:09 pm |

    You can have XXY calicos. I heard of one instance in my hometown when I was taking AP Biology. But looking at the build of that cat, I say that it was probably a female.

  5. Aloysius's avatar Aloysius | December 15, 2006 at 1:07 pm |

    Louie was as beautiful cat. I am sorry he (or she) is gone.
    Purrs!