Tortoiseshell cats are named for their mottled color pattern resembling a turtle shell. Most are female, similar to calicos, making male tortoiseshells rare and special. Your tortie cat deserves a ...

People have pretty strong feelings about the colors of a cat’s coat, and always have. They claim that cat coat colors have an effect on the animal’s personality—that ginger cats are dumb or seal point ...

VOORHEES -- A New Jersey veterinarian crossed a rare find off her bucket list this week after discovering a male tortoiseshell cat in a litter of abandoned kittens brought in by local Good Samaritans.

It seems you’re in good company. Veterinarians from the University of California, Davis, have discovered, in recently published research, that cats with calico and tortoiseshell coat patterns tend to ...

Never heard of this one? Domestic cat breeding has led us to felines with “colorpoint” patterns, which is when the body of the cat is a lighter color, then it has darker coloring around the ears, paws ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Just like humans, domestic cats are often judged by their color, and the media and folklore help perpetuate these stereotypes. Take the snobbish, aloof, white kitty who promotes "Fancy Feast," and ...

When we first discovered the structure of DNA, it looked like all of life’s mysteries were at our fingertips. We could control life and death! But soon enough, we started to run up against the limits ...

Cats are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you might get when it comes to their personalities. Some kitties purr affectionately as you stroke their bellies and others sing like songbirds ...

It seems you’re in good company. Veterinarians from UC Davis have discovered, in recently published research, that cats with calico and tortoiseshell coat patterns tend to challenge their human ...