I am a newcomer to the world of cats and cat parenting, so I’m always discovering little facts about cat biology and behavior I never heard before. When I first adopted my cat, a tabby-calico longhair ...

Our pets don't seem to have much in common with the wild animals they're related to, but the genes that dictate the color patterns in house cats are the same as those that produce the coats of some, ...

Just as you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, it’s unfair to judge a cat by its fur color. Yet humans seem to have a sweet spot for orange cats. Videos of their antics fill the internet, and ...

It was long predicted that the source of domestic cats’ distinctive pumpkin-orange fur coloring was genetic and was produced by a gene on the sex-determining X-chromosome because 80% of orange cats ...

After a heatwave in China, a cat owner from Henan province suddenly noticed that his Siamese cat’s face looked quite different. The dark mask around its blue eyes had almost disappeared. But how is ...

Orange cats are a bit crazy but affectionate. White cats prefer to keep to themselves. Is this all just a stereotype, or can a cat’s fur color actually reveal something about its character? It is ...