[OldMissileer]

She is unusual as she has a stubby tail. I thought she must have lost it to a coyote or dog etc. When she had her litter, I noticed one of them also had a stubby tail.

The cat is a Manx. The Manx gene is dominant, so much so that a kitten with the two dominant Manx genes cannot live.

With a litter of four the probability is that two of the kittens will have some type of Manx trait, ie. shortened or no tail.

[yarddog]

I am not sure. She had five kittens and they all had beautiful colors except one is just a grey tabby.