A new spot that pops up on your cat usually causes worry, but the spots can often be easily explained. The most common reason for these dark spots is lentigo, a genetic condition in which the ...

oxygen/Getty Orange cats also aren't 100% orange (confusing, we know!). Orange Domestic Shorthairs are tabbies, which mean they often sport stripes or spots in complementary colors like brown or ...

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black or orange coat), but not the details of the ... Male cats with orange coats, as well as the orange spots of calico cats, carry a mutation in this gene that blocks the production of eumelanin ...

You might see plenty of black cats, striped gray tabbies ... Some might be orange striped while others have orange spots. American Shorthair: This popular cat breed can produce orange tabby cats with ...

Yet humans seem to have a sweet spot for orange cats ... in each cell is randomly inactivated. In cats carrying two different color genes, one black and one orange, X inactivation causes different ...