{"id":5039,"date":"2024-09-19T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T14:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/?p=5039"},"modified":"2024-09-15T12:15:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T17:15:30","slug":"cat-dna-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/?p=5039","title":{"rendered":"Cat DNA Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not suggesting that you order a DNA test kit for your cat today.\u00a0 Although no shame here if you do.<\/p>\n<p>Cats&#8217; DNA is fascinating because so much of it is visible when you look at them.\u00a0 Did you know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over 80% of orange cats are male, and orange females are usually sterile<\/li>\n<li>Only 1 in 3000 tortoise shell cats are females<\/li>\n<li>White cats with blue eyes are usually deaf.\u00a0 White cats with one blue eye and one eye of another color are usually deaf on the blue eyed side<\/li>\n<li>Black cats are the least likely to get adopted, but they are often super friendly and get along well with other pets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So today would be a fun day to learn more about cat genetics, or just cats in general.<\/p>\n<p>And in case you were wondering, no, I have not purchased DNA testing kits for any of my cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not suggesting that you order a DNA test kit for your cat today.\u00a0 Although no shame here if you do. Cats&#8217; DNA is fascinating because so much of it is visible when you look at them.\u00a0 Did you know: Over 80% of orange cats are male, and orange females are usually sterile Only 1 in 3000 tortoise shell&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/?p=5039\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[25,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bright-shiny-objects","category-cats"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/basket-of-kittens-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}