The 6-week-old kitten has beaten the genetic odds by being born a boy. — -- Adoption offers are pouring in for an adorable male tortoiseshell cat named Burrito. The 6-week-old kitten has beaten ...

There are a lot of urban legends and folk tales about black cats, but apparently there’s nothing worse than a tortoiseshell. A group of psychology researchers have just published a study about ...

If you've watched cat videos on social media lately, you may have encountered the idea that a cat's coat color tells us something about its personality. The idea a cat's personality is linked to their ...

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 ...

Frieda, a tortoiseshell cat, sits on at cat scratching pad shaped like a chaise lounge. She is one of the foster cats up for adoption at the LapCats cattery in Sacramento, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2015.

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, ...

Did you know that tortoiseshell cats (called “torties”) are almost exclusively female? Some other little-known tortie facts: They often have hot-tempered personalities (called “tortitude”), and are ...