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Eddie Izzard The Cat?
Tortoiseshell Kitten
Four tortoiseshell kittens were taken by a local charity to Karen Home, a veterinary surgeon in Harpenden in the UK for vaccination. As she was examining the kittens Karen found, to her amazement, that one of the four was a male.
Karen said “As a vet I can tell you that it is genetically impossible to get a male cat that is tortoiseshell coloured.
”My colleagues and I have 30 years of experience between us and we have never seen anything like this.”
Mrs Home has since adopted the kitten and called him Eddie after Eddie Izzard the cross-dressing comedian.
She said: ”I feel like the luckiest vet ever just to see a tortie tom cat, and even luckier to have him live with me.
Of eight million pet cats in Britain only two a year are born male tortoiseshells. Male cats, like human beings, have only one X chromosome in their DNA meaning that they should be unable to inherit different colours.
