The cat world just got a little more colorful. The story started In a small Finnish village called Petäjävesi. Sharp-eyed locals began noticing peculiar black cats with coats that didn’t look quite ...

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Oh, this is fun: a collaboration of scientists at the University of Helsinki and at the company Wisdom Panel, have identified the genetic mutation responsible for a new, distinctive coat color pattern ...

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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.