Tuesday night we had an hour to kill between dinner and
the start of our movie, so we headed to the pet store to visit the animals.
There was an unhappy dog being groomed. We didn’t see him, but boy, did we hear
him. Heather chatted with the parakeets while we searched the ferret cage in
vain. Was there a run on ferrets? There was a gorgeous male orange tabby up for
adoption who reminded me of the pet my dad used to call Red Cat. Ours was a
male, too, and it’s not a coincidence. Nobody knows why, but 80% of orange
tabbies are male. Orange tabbies are more likely to become overweight than most
other cats, partly because eating is their favorite activity, and partly
because their second favorite activity is lying around. Orange tabbies get
their coloring from a predominance of a pigment known as pheomelanin – the same
pigment that makes humans redheaded. No wonder we call them gingers.
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