julio 2, 2016 julio 3, 2016 admin
Meet Jake, Britain's rarest cat.
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Take a good look at Jake the moggy… can you work out the X Factor that makes him Britain's rarest cat? The clue lies in the colour of his coat… and the fact that Jake is a HE. Jake defies 400,000/1 odds of being a male cat with black, ginger and white fur. Normally tomcats have only one "X" chromosome in their DNA, meaning their coat can only be two colours.
Owner Richard Smith, 22, didn't know anything was unusual when he took Jake to the vet's. He asked us, «You do know this cat is a girl?» said Richard. When we insisted it was a boy he opened Jake's legs and couldn't believe it.
The vet called in an older colleague who said he had never seen a male calico in 30 years of practice. Vet said "It's physically written in their DNA that they can't be three colours. When it does happen, it's a complete accident in the DNA."
Jake, picked from the litter by Richard's son Harvey, is still allowed out to roam in Greenhithe, Kent. "Even though he's so rare, Jake's still just a family pet to us," said Richard.
Source: mirror.co.uk
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