We all know the original ginger cat, Garfield. This lasagna-eating kitty with a sarcastic sense of humor has pretty much-raised generations of kids, from comic books to live-action movies. So you’re ...

Related: Calico Cat Entertaining Herself With Mouse-Catching ... cats come along about 1 in every 3,000. So yes—they're pretty rare! But why are there more female Calicos than males?

Meet Eileen! Eileen was brought in from a neighborhood and she is looking for a new family to love. Eileen is a rare dilute calico, with beautiful coloring of gray, peach and white. She was a little ...

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 ...