Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People have pretty strong feelings about the colors of a cat’s coat, and always have. They claim that cat coat colors have an ...

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 ...

Calico cats (left) and tortoiseshell cats (right) are the classic example of X chromosome inactivation, where either an orange color or a black color variant of a gene on the X chromosome is active in ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — SpokAnimal staff members are seeing a trend among the cats they shelter. The shelter's executive director said calico cats that come in are always female and the orange cats always ...

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 ...

Q: I adopted a calico cat from a shelter that named him Joseph for his coat of many colors. My veterinarian was surprised when she examined him and confirmed he was a male, because she said calico ...