Also, here's an interesting fact that no one needed to know: If science matters at all in this world, calicos and tortoiseshells will almost never have male kittens. the statistics are 1 in 3000. I'm pretty sure Foxtail qualifies as some crazy reverse calico, but I'm also pretty sure she'll never have a mate, so it's completely irrelevant for her. In the same vein, all calicos and tortoiseshells are female. However, the myth that all orange cats/tabbies are male is inaccurate, only 3 in 4 tabbies are male.