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ABOUT MYSELF

Hi, let me introduce myself. I'm an artist and art educator. I've lived with cats since the age of 6. I don't remember ever paying for a cat; most were either gifts from the breeder or an adult that needed a home. Most were male. All were "fixed" (meaning they were either spayed or neutered).

Following are a few of my feline friends:

My first cat was a very large black male, who I naturally named "Blackie." Not afraid of dogs, he was once seen 'riding' on the back of an annoying boxer. The dog never came near our house or neighborhood after this painful and humiliating experience.




While attending Swain School of Design, an art school in New Bedford, I had a number of strays; including a feral cat which nearly destroyed my apartment before I had it removed to a farm in South Darmouth.

While attending Boston University's School of Fine Arts, I had a number of feline pets. The one I remember most is "Mykonos," who lived with me on Hemingway Street. It was not the best of times for either of us...

While graduate students at the University of Cincinnati, my wife and I were given two male Siamese kittens from our landlady. We called them "Grunts" and "Little." They were from the last litter of their 18+ year old mother. Highly intelligent and lots of fun, they lived with us on Mt Adams, Cincinnati, Ohio; at Bell Island, Conn.; Wellesley, Mass., and on Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

We had a number of pet cats, including another Siamese (and "Molly" an Irish setter), during the years our daughters grew up in Wellesley.

In the 1980s, after my divorce, I accepted responsibility for a huge Maine Coon cat who had been abused by his former owners. It took him over a year to learn to trust me; but after that, he was one of the most loving of all my feline friends. We lived together for many years at my Moody Street art studio in Waltham (and most likely helped each other to heal). The drawing below is a self portrait with my Maine Coon cat:

 

 



Artist: Scattergood-Moore
Title: Me and My Maine Coon Cat c. 1985
Medium: Ebony pencil on paper
Size: 14" high x 12" wide
Collection of Dr. Emily D. Scattergood



Today I share my living space with a beautiful calico known only as THE STUDIO CAT because she spends most of her time in my art studio. She came to me from an extremely small apartment in Boston that containined over 20 other cats! - my vet recommended her because he had seen that she was not socializing with the other cats in the apartment. Today "studio cat" seems very content to be living a more solitude life; she spends her days in the studio and nights at the corners of my bed. Like other calicos, she is not much of a cuddler but she is very sociable with me and other adults - especially artists!


There are 3 photographs of her above.

 



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  • Anatomy of the cat
    Author: Jacob Reighard
    Author: H. S. Jennings
    Publisher: H. Holt and Company
    Date: 1901

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GENETICS OF THE CALICO COLORED CAT

Calico cats are not a breed; they are a very specific color characteristic. They are tri-colored with colors in distinct patches, not mixed as in a tortoiseshell.

 

NEARLY ALL CALICO CATS ARE FEMALE...

"To better understand this mystery, lets have a brief, very basic, review of genetics. Each mother cat's offspring will carry a pair of sex chromosomes, XX or XY, the result of which will make the kitten either a girl or a boy. The mother passes an X chromosome down to it's creation and the father passes either an X or a Y. If the offspring receives the Y, it's genetic composition will be XY and it will be a male. However, color and other physical calico kitten characteristics are tied specifically to the X or Y gene depending on the specific circumstance. For a kitten to be born a calico it takes two X genes, one carrying an orange characteristic and one carrying the non-orange characteristic (usually black). And, if a cat has the XX combination of genes it needs to be calico, then it would be a female, hence, why there is the perception that a calico cat has to be a female."

 

ALTHOUGH RARE,
      THERE ARE MALE CALICO CATS...

 

"...a genetic anomaly can occur where an offspring ends up with an extra sex chromosome producing the combination XXY. The XX of the XXY meets the requirement of the two X chromosomes needed to produce the calico cat characteristic's color and the Y of the XXY produces the male sex. However, male calico cats are usually sterile and do not reproduce."

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