With their colorful splotches of fur, calicos are some of the most easily recognized cats. However, calico is not a breed, but rather a color pattern. Any breed of domestic cat with a tri-color coat ...

Cats are beautiful animals that can come in a wide array of colors and patterns. The most common primary colors found in cats are red and black as well as white. Cat lovers are all familiar with ...

On the cusp of Halloween, let’s celebrate orange cats! Like black cats, there’s not one single “orange cat breed” since coat color alone doesn’t count as a breed. In fact, many breeds come in a ...

Nine thousand years ago, humans began domesticating cats. Nine hundred years ago, before the advent of intentional cat breeding, a genetic mutation gave rise to the first orange cat. Days ago, ...

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 ...