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<blockquote data-quote="Charlotte Evans" data-source="post: 17914" data-attributes="member: 315">Re: If you have cats....I&#039;ve seen plenty of ginger/white females and quite a few all ginger girls, enough that when I was a veterinary nurse we always routinely checked for testes prior to neuter/spaying. They are certainly more common than calico/tortie males.I have only seen one male tortie, it&#039;s rare, I think the guideline is something like 1:400,000......we were spaying this tortie cat and after much fishing around couldn&#039;t find her uterus until I copped a feel under the drape and there were his balls!&nbsp; <img src="http://www.soundforums.net/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> We went ahead and neutered him after taking a quick photo for proof (the Royal Veterinary College is always interested in these cases). They are usually without exception infertile but like with retained testes there is a risk of the &#039;nads becoming cancerous so off they come.I&#039;m currently a slave to these two and I miss them sooooo much when I go on tour. Fortunately my husband is very fond of cats! <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v254/buddles/cats014-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlotte Evans, post: 17914, member: 315"] Re: If you have cats.... I've seen plenty of ginger/white females and quite a few all ginger girls, enough that when I was a veterinary nurse we always routinely checked for testes prior to neuter/spaying. They are certainly more common than calico/tortie males. I have only seen one male tortie, it's rare, I think the guideline is something like 1:400,000......we were spaying this tortie cat and after much fishing around couldn't find her uterus until I copped a feel under the drape and there were his balls! [img]http://www.soundforums.net/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif[/img] We went ahead and neutered him after taking a quick photo for proof (the Royal Veterinary College is always interested in these cases). They are usually without exception infertile but like with retained testes there is a risk of the 'nads becoming cancerous so off they come. I'm currently a slave to these two and I miss them sooooo much when I go on tour. Fortunately my husband is very fond of cats! [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v254/buddles/cats014-1.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]

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