7/28/2014
Venus, the Chimera Cat
By Jill Anne Sparapany
Look at this beautiful face! It’s mesmerizing, isn't it?
Meet Venus, the Chimera
cat!
She was found on a dairy farm in North Carolina and adopted in 2009! Her
owner says she’s perfect – uses the scratching post, never the furniture, and
loves to be babied. Who couldn’t love that face?
Chimera cats are
genetically their own fraternal twin: one organism composed of two different
DNA chromosomes. This occurs when two eggs are fertilized by two different
sperm cells, then early in development the two zygotes fuse together. They
maintain separate DNA in their cells and have two different genetic expressions
within the one organism.
Depending upon which DNA
gave rise to the reproductive organs, chimeras can have only ovaries or testes
or both ovaries and testes, if one of the zygotes was male and the other was
female. They can still reproduce and the offspring’s sex and fertility would
depend upon the cell line that formed the sex organs.
Chimera animals can have
internal organs with different DNA; i.e.
liver has XX/female chromosome and heart has XY/male chromosome.
Chimera conditions also
can occur in people, with organ transplants, since the donor organ would have
different DNA unless it was from an identical twin, and bone marrow
transplantation.
Venus
is a tortoiseshell with split colors on her face.
One
half is orange tabby with blue eye and the other half is black with green eye.
Julie and I went on a float trip down the Cape Fear River yesterday. Let me tell you, we are sore this morning LOL It was fun but exhausting!! (some are a bit blurry, shooting through a plastic bag)
sitting on the river bank, taking a break |
some of the others swimming in the river |
Julia from the back :) |
Break on the bank |
Thank you for the gifts from our Amazon Wish list!
http://amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/14VUTQST8F5XH
Amazon never gives us your contact information, often they do not
even have packing slips, please know how grateful we are to you
for your kindness!!
Amazon never gives us your contact information, often they do not
even have packing slips, please know how grateful we are to you
for your kindness!!
Thank you Nancy Barsotti for the scratch and rest and toy!
Thank you Heather Miller for the scratch and rest, turbo replacements pages and cleaner!
Thank you Kelly Barum for the scratch and rest, crinkle balls, swiffer kit and batteries!
Thank you Susan McClinton for the trashbags and swiffers!
Thank you Susan WVBaker for the springs and catnip toy!
Thank you Shirley Watkins for the tower of tracks!
Thank you Lauren Hornsby for the food!
Thank you Lauren Hornsby for the food!
Thank you Tessa Tweedie for the catnip toy!
Thank you to the several unnamed people for all the food, for all the tubs of catnip, freshstep, shark pads and toys!
Thank you Peggy Frankovich for the catnip and toy!
Thank you Cheryl Till for the cleaner!
Thank you Christine Breed for the bandaid kits!
Thank you Nico Keusch for the cube and shark mop!
Thank you Debra DiMascio for the freshstep!
Thank you Sherry Brisco for the amazon gift card!
Don't forget we are in LOTS of contests right now,
The prize money would help pay for lots of vet coverage for the cats :)
Thank you so much for helping the cats!!
Contest 1: $50,000!! first prize,
1 vote every 24 hours
Here is the link: http://eaglerarelife.com/content/alana-miller
Contest 2, $25,000 first prize
CHARITY JUMP We need MORE TICKETS to hold First Place.
We are in a charity jump in Raleigh on August 8. HUMAN Teams will be participating jumping off of a platform 32 feet in the air onto a giant pillow. The team that jumps the most total feet will win $25,000
You do NOT have to come and jump, WE will Jump For You!!
We need you to buy tickets for us to jump :) Here is the link for team Raleigh,
Please Only get them for Raleigh, we have a HUGE team jumping
Here is the link: http://dareme4charity.com/campaign/630
for TEAM RALEIGH, The HUMANS will jump for you if you can not attend, So you can buy a ticket no matter where you are! If you are in the Raleigh area and would like to come jump with us, please email me :)
Please assign your ticket to us to jump! After you get your tickets click my account, my tickets, assign, type in alana@blindcatrescue.com to assign the tickets. Thank you for helping!!
Contest 3, $1,000. first prize, daily vote
here is the link: http://www.shopforyourcause.com/voting-challenge#.U62DQqhRY00
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