You ended up on this story because you are curious about orange cat breeds. If you have a ginger kitty, consider yourself lucky. These marmelade beauties are super-cute and there is so much to admire ...

Recently, butlers to orange-colored cats got a bit of a shock when reading the news, as headlines began to call out their fuzzy feline friends as ‘freaks of nature’ and using similarly uncouth terms.

While studies showing orange cat friendliness are illuminating, they're meant to be taken with a grain of salt — "based on owner feedback" is the essential phrase here! Such studies are survey-based, ...

Orange cats may be known for their silly behavior, but two new studies are a step closer to understanding "the why" behind the furry felines' coloring. Two independent studies published on May 15 by ...

It is some kind of an odd process, said Christopher Kaelin, a geneticist at Stanford University, where you become ...

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 ...

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, ...