However, some descriptors of cats are not actual breeds. Both tortoiseshell and calico fall into this category. They are not ...

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 ...

The "tiny," one-pound kitten, named Cinder, is a "male tortoiseshell ... "tens of thousands of cat surgeries" throughout her career — and "only seen one other male calico and only a handful ...

Juanita Mengel and her cat Lola Pearl both have had there left leg amputated Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared ...

A prime example of X inactivation is in the coat-color patterning of tortoiseshell or calico cats (Figure 1). In cats, the fur pigmentation gene is X-linked, and depending on which copy of the X ...