Orange Tabby Cats Usually Male

No they are not.

Orange tabby cats usually male. Any cat male or female can be orange but in males the color is nearly always expressed in the tabby striped pattern sometimes called a ginger tom. Because a tabbys color depends upon a sex-linked gene an orange female must inherit two orange genes one from each parent whereas a male red cat only needs one. That is just how genetics work.

Orange cats are usually male. He was very smart and curious. Orange tabby cat toms outnumber queens approximately four to one.

While it is a fact that there is a higher ratio of orange tabbies that are male the exact percentage is actually about 80 percent toms to 20 percent queens. However male tabbies indeed take up a higher percentage of the tabby population at 80. Orange tabby cats are almost all male.

And its not some sort of magic its genetics. The cause of this is genetics. But what does that mean for orange cats.

The personality of a cat seems to go with coat color. Females can be orange tabby calico or tortoiseshell. And another thing that we know about ginger tabbies.

In fact up to 80 percent of orange tabbies are male making orange female cats a bit of a rarity. The orange tabby cats also known as orange tabby have a coat in many different colors of red orange or even golden yellow. Are orange haired cats usually male.