How'd a Siamese get in this litter?

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'?

In ,
(Luramao) wrote:

| [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.)

In ,
(Luramao) wrote:

| [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.)

Luramao 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
--
Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum,
minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
(from topfive.com)

Luramao 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
--
Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum,
minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
(from topfive.com)

Of Peewee gets an injury, it grows in white. His recent bout of
ringworm has left him dappled with white.

-L.

Bootsie 2 had that! She had a bald paatch on the top of her head, and when the
hair grrew back in, it was white.

Sherry

"Sherry " wrote in message
...
Of Peewee gets an injury, it grows in white. His recent bout of
ringworm has left him dappled with white.

-L.

Bootsie 2 had that! She had a bald paatch on the top of her head,
and when the
hair grrew back in, it was white.

Sherry

Shadow has a lot more white on his belly than he had before it was
shaved. I've also noticed that Shamrock's bouts with the skin
allergies has left him with a white streak on his back where I thought
it used to be solid black. I can't be sure since he's had so many
problems since I got him but his stripe looks like a skunk stripe. But
then again, he has a lot of white on his underside and arms and face
so I just can't remember what his back looked like fully furred.
Funny thing about Bonnie, she doesn't have any white on her at all.
Solid black, but in the sunlight it has a brown tinge to it (as does
Shadow). Combed off fur is gray.

"Sherry " wrote in message
...
Of Peewee gets an injury, it grows in white. His recent bout of
ringworm has left him dappled with white.

-L.

Bootsie 2 had that! She had a bald paatch on the top of her head,
and when the
hair grrew back in, it was white.

Sherry

Shadow has a lot more white on his belly than he had before it was
shaved. I've also noticed that Shamrock's bouts with the skin
allergies has left him with a white streak on his back where I thought
it used to be solid black. I can't be sure since he's had so many
problems since I got him but his stripe looks like a skunk stripe. But
then again, he has a lot of white on his underside and arms and face
so I just can't remember what his back looked like fully furred.
Funny thing about Bonnie, she doesn't have any white on her at all.
Solid black, but in the sunlight it has a brown tinge to it (as does
Shadow). Combed off fur is gray.

Of Peewee gets an injury, it grows in white. His recent bout of
ringworm has left him dappled with white.

-L.

Bootsie 2 had that! She had a bald paatch on the top of her head, and when the
hair grrew back in, it was white.

Sherry