Cats and Genes

I Sent My Cat’s DNA to 23andMe

It turns out I’m not her real owner

Chromosome pics (Rawin Poonperm, Hideaki Takata, Tohru Hamano, Atsushi Matsuda, Susumu Uchiyama, Yasushi Hiraoka & Kiichi Fukui, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Ursula and friend pic by Sunshine Perlis. Image by Chapin.

I got the report back from 19andMe, the division of 23andMe that handles cat DNA. I sent Ursula’s “genetic material” to them.

The report said Ursula is a black-furred domestic shorthair. She tends towards isolation and rancor. She carries the genes for “slight and winsome.”…