tortoiseshell cat
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Letter: Help.(Letters)
; MISSING - much loved, long-haired, tortoiseshell cat from Harris Place, Grangemouth. It was wearing a VIP studded collar and has a very sore eye. Any info, phone: 07838234084
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Missing cat
; ...anyone who may have seen it to get in touch. Louise Craggs, a receptionist at Kensington Vets, in Darlington, last saw her tortoiseshell cat Joany on Thursday, September 9. Ms Craggs, who lives in Geneva Gardens, thinks that someone might be feeding Joany and...
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 "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)")
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Bid to find cat.(News)
; A FAMILY have flooded part of Coventry with leaflets in an attempt to find their cat. Tortoiseshell cat Scat - a birthday present for the Miles family's two young children - disappeared from her home on Oakhampton Road, Styvechale...
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Letter: Feline inspiration
; ...paintings than you suggest ("TV portrait of Turner lets a few cats out of the bag", 5 April). One of his works was described by Mark Twain as "looking like a tortoiseshell cat having a fit in a bowl of tomato soup". EUAN CARTWRIGHT Brampton, Cumbria
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Help us to find Rosie
; ...Ten-month-old Rosie went missing from the Venn family home in London Road, Brimscombe, on October 30. The black and brown mottled tortoiseshell cat, is microchipped and spayed. Anyone who may have seen Rosie, or knows of her whereabouts, can call the family on 01453...
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Tortoiseshell cats
; ...tortoiseshell cats are female. The chance of a tortoiseshell cat being a male is less than one in 500. The reason...lies in the genetic composition that produces a tortoiseshell cat, which is actually a cat with both black and brown...
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Have you got room for Meme? PET RESCUE
; MEME, an eightyear-old tortoiseshell cat, has been at the Cardonald Cat and Dog home for two weeks since arriving there as a stray. She would need to go to a quiet household...
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Do you own lost cat?
; The Rspca is desperate to trace the owner of an elderly cat found wandering the streets. The dark tortoiseshell cat was picked up by an animal collection officer in Waddington, near Lincoln, on Monday. Karen Ansell, chairman of the RSPCA's Lincolnshire-m...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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River dive pets safe.(News)
; ...disaster. Firefighters found the exhausted animals clinging to a bank and pulled them to safety. The dog had gone for the tortoiseshell cat when its owner let it of the lead and the pair of them plunged into the River Teign at Newton Abbot, Devon. Fire chief...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Burglar beasts jailed.(News)
; ...been jailed for three years each. Steven Browitt and Andrew Maloney used a blunt axe to behead Greta, a blind 19-yearold tortoiseshell cat, during a break-in in Wigan last August. They left her severed head on a living room coffee table for owner David Byrne...
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tortoiseshell cat
tor·toise·shell cat • n. a domestic cat with markings resembling tortoiseshell.
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tortoiseshell
...semitransparent mottled yellow and brown shell of certain turtles, typically used to make jewelry or ornaments. ∎ a synthetic substance made in imitation of this. 2. short for tortoiseshell cat . 3. short for tortoiseshell butterfly .
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calico cat
...America, a blotched or spotted domestic cat , usually predominantly white with...black patches (a pattern also called tortoiseshell-and-white). Because genetic determination...calicoes are almost always female. calico cat calico cat calico cat
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Mosaicism
...exhibits mosaicism is a tortoiseshell cat, which has patches of black...chromosome that makes the cat's fur orange. If a female cat has this geneon only one...orange or black fur in the tortoiseshell cat. Because the single X chromosomes...inactivated, male cats do not have ...
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COLLOCATION
...Collocations are more loosely associated than idioms: contiguously (as with tortoise and shell in tortoiseshell ) or proximately (as with cat and purr in The cat was purring ). When the elements of compound words collocate, they form new lexical items...
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