It’s the same with calico cats as well from what I understand, almost all are female.
Yep, to get calico coloring, cats must have two X chromosomes, so they will be female. If a male calico is born, it will be XXY. So that’s a rare mutation to encounter, and those cats are always sterile too, so they’re not passing along their mutation to any kittens either.
Ooooh yeah it is a dog. I thought they weren’t including the cat who is on the bed but not cuddling 😂
Okay but like, there’s a right and wrong way to count time and they’re doing it wrong. This is 100% valid to report as a bug, and imo, incredibly helpful - especially compared to most of the bug reports I see! Idk what the context is here, but for the software I QA for work, this kind of mistake would break everything, and I’d report it as a bug. Their comment isn’t a reply in a professional situation, but still, that reaction is extremely over the top. What an asshole
For my in-office keyboard I have Gazzew Boba U4 silent tactile switches. I’m very happy with them. I saw some advice that said not to lube them, which I gladly took to save myself the effort lol. I’ve been using them at work for 2.5 years now. And my coworker who (politely) complained about my keyboard being too loud before has not complained about this one 🙂
I use them on a Keychron K-series keyboard that originally came with brown switches. I did also upgrade the stabilizers on this one, my space bar was too loud.
I will say that I prefer my Keychron Q5 that I have at home. It was more expensive than the K-series, but it has better build quality. I haven’t had to do any mods (the stabilizers it shipped with haven’t bothered me) and I prefer the metal body of the keyboard.
Never see the hawks target them either, they fight back and mob predators.
Ooh cool! So just the other day, my husband saw a hawk grab a grey squirrel. And a squirrel buddy came over and attacked the hawk and rescued the first squirrel!! We’ve never seen or heard of anything like that before. These were grey squirrels.
Maybe squirrels are a lot more roughty toughty than I’ve been giving them credit for! 😁
Well I’m not sure about that, but that’s a good point…
Polar bears have translucent hair that looks white, and black skin. Looks like black squirrels have black skin. So maybe it depends if this white squirrel still has black skin underneath 🤷♀️ I’m going to tell myself that the lil guy will be fine because that’s a happier ending 😅
Hey, you/your sister should submit a report of this squirrel spotting!
https://untamedscience.com/biodiversity/white-squirrel/
There’s an effort to map where white squirrels are showing up in North America. We did some research after seeing one in our neighborhood a few years back - like this one, ours wasn’t albino, which you can differentiate because squirrels with albinism have red eyes.
Edit: this lil guy is probably better off in the snow than otherwise, better camouflage! 😍
Gotta tuck the snoot
Def bring it up with the vet. When my cat started going outside of the box, it was because she had a nasty kidney infection.
Edit: also “randomly when I step away,” do you mean if you’re travelling? She might be stressed because she misses you and she’s lonely.
Our cat doesn’t respond to catnip but she does respond to silvervine!
I don’t think it’s the classic catnip response (which I assume is because of her genes) but she gets more playful and her pupils enlarge… for a few minutes and then she just wants to take a nap 😂
And from me please give her a lil forehead scritch, thanks
Scoutabout and Scootums are both VERY good, we might have to start using those! 😁
Scout
Who 99% of the time is Scooty.
She’s occasionally called: Scootybutt, Scooterella, Scoots, Scootyscoots, Scuttles, Scuttlebutt, Scoutster (only ever used by my mom lol), Scootypuff Senior (a la Futurama, but she’s too old to be Junior. Scooty is 12.)
We pretty much only call her Scout at the vet
I’ll add a picture when I get another break from work
What’s Boris hanging out on top of? I’m intrigued but the shape lol
Also, love a girl cat with a classically male name. I had a roommate with a fat orange cat named Leroy. Leroy was a girl 😁 (Leroy was also a big sassbutt.)
Awesome, this worked. Thank you!
If anyone knows where to buy one of these decals, please let me know. My parents bought a Tesla several years ago because of environmentally friendly ambitions and I’d love to get them one of these decals. I tried to Google it but “car logo decal” wasn’t getting me results like this meme shows.
Our girl has favorite spots in the house too. She tends to favor one spot for a little while, so she’ll spend almost all her time hanging out there but then get bored and switch to a new spot. I recently named this phenomenon “Spot of the Week” lol
What a good boy 🥺 I hope he gets treats for protecting you from the thunder so well