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“The original post from South Korea featured a lighthearted caption joking that the cat looked like a tough street brawler w/ a full-arm sleeve tattoo, which internet commenters then sensationalized into a biological myth about chimerism” Gemini opinion on the plausibility of chimerism in this case

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People see a cat and they all say it's a cat regardless of color or fur pattern. What would the world be like if people were seen through the same lens?

Partly. My son found him, hungry and covered in ticks and fleas behind an apartment complex. He was around 1 at that point. Son named her Lexi. When we took "her" to the vet we found out that she was a neutered he (who must have been abandoned) and we renamed him Alexei.

Gang tatoo! I believe from the "Alley Cat" gang, but it could be "MY Yard" gang. They are often in close proximity and have cross fence love affairs, so you never know.

Isn't that normal? Most orange cats are boys because the orange coat gene is sex-linked. It appears on the X chromosome, and a female needs 2 copies of the gene to have an orange coat. His mom has X-black + X-orange but the babies one of those at random. He got orange from her, and sisters might too

— but even if a sister also got X-🍊 from mom like him sis would have gotten a 2nd X from dad to suppress the 🍊, making sis ⚫️. Lil dude only got an X from mom, and a Y from dad made no change to his single X color gene.