First cat-first day-10 min. after leaving it alone

[packman]

Must be part of a cat's DNA

[MuseRider]

1. Awww!

I am trying to type with one on my arm as I say this!

What an adorable little kitty!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Aww! Squee little calico kitty girl!

She can sleep on my keyboard any day.

My fifteen-pounder likes to do that, too. Every now and then I have to take my laptop out to the Apple Store and have them vacuum out the cat fur.

[angstlessk]

3. He/she is missing you!

Since you spend so much time on your computer, that is as close as he/she can get

BTW...as a kid I thought all dogs were male and all cats female...FELINE..FEMALE

Even today I want to call every kitty I see as a she.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. That kitty is almost certainly female because almost all calicos are.

And she's so cute I can hardly stand it.

[angstlessk]

5. I did not know most calicos are female?

Are most orange cats male? I knew 2 male orange cats, one with 6 toes

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Yep, almost all calicos are female, and most (80%) orange cats are male.

http://vetmedicine.about.com/od/catbreed1/f/FAQ_calicocats.htm
http://www.catchannel.com/experts/arnold_plotnick/orange-tabby-male-cats-and-calico-female-cats.aspx

[angstlessk]

7. Cats have owned me since I was about 10

There were very few years in my life when at least one, and sometimes 3 owned me...and I DID.NOT.KNOW.

Thanks for the link and the education!

[TexasBushwhacker]

8. Yes, not quite as sex linked as calicos

About 5 males to every orange female. Male calicos are far more rare because the mutant calico gene, which is recessive, is found on the female X chromosome. So male calicos are XXY.

[angstlessk]

9. The xxy in human men is not good

Not always bad, but bad enough!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Kleinfelter's Syndrome in humans.

With cats, male calicos are usually sterile. Don't know if they have other problems.

[angstlessk]

14. Sterile probably curbs the testerone caused violence

I had non fixed kittys who were rather large and hung on the top of the couch when I had male visitors, (and the males were intimidated) and the kitty jumped on my legs when I walked down the hall...

Well, my mom called me kitty?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. There isn't exactly a calico gene, as such.

But the gene for orange/non-orange coloring is always on the X chromosome. Females normally have two X chromosomes but males have one X and one Y. Since the Y chromosome does not have any locus for the orange/non-orange gene, it's not possible for a male to have both orange and non-orange genes together, which is what is needed to be calico. Only those rare males with two X chromosomes can be calico because then they can be both orange and non-orange.

[Phentex]

10. adorable!

Some serious squee!

[lunatica]

13. Kitty figured out how to get your attention while just keeping toasty warm and snoozing

[applegrove]

15. I had a cable box my little black cat liked to sit on. It broke the plastic grate

after a few years. I had to explain to the cable guy what happened because he had never seen the cable box broken like that before. The new box is too small for Twilight to sit on so she has moved to my laptop. Sometimes she is even faster to sit on it than the Screensaver.

[IcyPeas]

16. an example of the KitKat operating system

and it's working purrrrfectly.

I believe.

[LiberalElite]

17. AWWWWWWWWWWWWW

She's a lap(top) cat.

[hay rick]

18. Home key sweet home key.

Training new staff is SOOO exhausting.

[zanana1]

19. What an adorable little kitty...

doing an adorable little kitty thing. It always amazes how all cats seem to do the same silly things. I think they have a form of communication that we don't know about.

[blogslut]

20. Laptops are warm.

The meanest cat in the world is too respectful to sit on top of mine but she loves to sit right by the exhaust vents.

[Little Tich]

21. It's the most logical way to use a laptop - at least if you're a kitten... n/t