Pussy Power

[profundo_rosso]

After a two-day break, Scott Road is once again full of gas engineers. Despite having told them I'd be in all morning, the chap sent to replace my gas meter turned up just after 8am ("We want to catch people when they're in"), which would have been bloody irritating had I not had to get Ann to work by 7am.
Meanwhile, this house is undergoing its

Comments

[del_c]

If it's a tortoiseshell, won't it be "she"?

[profundo_rosso]

I bow to your superior knowledge, Del. So, the colour specifies the gender? Something else you don't get with dogs, so far as I'm aware.

[del_c]

Most colour cats, like black, white, tabby, etc. can be any sex, but the two counterexamples I know about are ginger cats, who are almost always toms (and the rare ginger queens are almost always sterile), and torties, who are almost always queens. I'm being cautious and saying "almost always", but I never heard of a male tortoiseshell.

The other thing I know from experience about torties is that they're often psycho bitch cats from helltemperamental.