Gil and Mariko are quite the sibling pair. Gil is the chill older brother, a standard Tabby. He loves mom, he loves playing.

With their colorful splotches of fur, calicos are some of the most easily recognized cats. However, calico is not a breed, but rather a color pattern. Any breed of domestic cat with a tri-color ...

Wearing a stationmaster's cap, a 9-year-old female tortoiseshell cat named Tama sits on a ticket gate at a train station in Japan on May 22, 2008. Dawntreader Texas Calboy, a calico cat from ...

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.