Meet Jake, Britain’s rarest cat.

Take a good look at Jake! … Can you work out what makes him Britain’s rarest cat?

The clue lies in the colour of his coat… and the fact that Jake is a HE.  

Jake defies 400,000/1 odds of being a male cat with black, ginger and white fur.

Normally tomcats have only one “X” chromosome in their DNA, meaning their coat can only be two colours. 

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Jake’s owners didn’t know anything was unusual when he took Jake to the vet’s.

The vet asked , “You do know this cat is a girl, right?” 

When the owner insisted it was a boy he opened Jake’s legs and couldn’t believe it!

The vet called in an older colleague who said he had never seen a male calico in 30 years of practice.

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Vet said “It’s physically written in their DNA that they can’t be three colours. When it does happen, it’s a complete accident in the DNA.”

So how does the family feel about such rarity? “Even though he’s so rare, Jake’s still just a family pet to us,” 

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