*Giggles and whistles innocently*
Aug. 8th, 2007 03:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundTricolor cat proves to be an anomaly
"It wasn't until they were ready to spay Phinny that they found out he needed neutering instead. And that's how he got his name.
Phinny, you see, is a male tortoiseshell, a tricolor cat. He's not quite the missing link in the cat world, but is undoubtedly a rare quirk of nature, for reasons of genetics.
“In my 15 years of working with animals, this is the first live male tortoiseshell that I've ever seen,” said Staci Fitzgerald, the society's director of animal care. “He's absolutely striking, a real genetic anomaly. "
"It wasn't until they were ready to spay Phinny that they found out he needed neutering instead. And that's how he got his name.
Phinny, you see, is a male tortoiseshell, a tricolor cat. He's not quite the missing link in the cat world, but is undoubtedly a rare quirk of nature, for reasons of genetics.
“In my 15 years of working with animals, this is the first live male tortoiseshell that I've ever seen,” said Staci Fitzgerald, the society's director of animal care. “He's absolutely striking, a real genetic anomaly. "
