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Old 02-24-2020, 09:46 AM
 
Location: In the house we finally own!
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The summer before last, we found 3 tiny feral kittens in our back yard. We took them in and adopted them. One was black, one was marble and one was white with almost siamese markings and blue eyes. Last summer, the same feral cat had another litter, and we adopted one of the kittens. He is also white with blues eyes and the same markings. The mama kitty is a marble, like one of the kittens we first adopted. She has since been spayed by a helpful neighbor.

These two white kitties are identical. They have the exact same markings, face, blue eyes and evil streak. They were born a year apart. How is this possible?
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Old 02-24-2020, 11:21 AM
 
Location: Kansas City, MISSOURI
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Pics!

Maybe they have the same father?
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Old 02-24-2020, 12:37 PM
 
Location: Wisconsin
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Guessing it is mostly due to the same father and a stroke of luck in that the same genes showed up twice like that. Would love to see a pic (and I'm glad that mama is now spayed).
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Old 02-25-2020, 01:09 PM
 
Location: southern kansas
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Yep. Dad got lucky twice with the same girl. She must have liked his style.

If the truth was known, it's probably not that uncommon of an occurrence in feral colonies to have separate batches of similar offspring. That might depend on the size of the colony and number of players, of course.

If a more in-depth analysis is needed, we will require pictures.
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Old 02-26-2020, 08:06 AM
 
Location: In the house we finally own!
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I have tried repeatedly to post pictures, but I just can't seem to get it to work. I have them on IMGUR, and have copied the URL but they still don't show up. Any advice?
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Old 02-26-2020, 08:25 AM
 
Location: Kansas City, MISSOURI
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Try uploading them as attachments. You have to use the "Post Reply" button instead of the quick reply box. There's a thing that lets you add attachments such as pics.
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