tortoiseshell cat
tortie informal

To dream of a tortoiseshell cat means luck in love.

The phenomenon can be seen in tortoiseshell cats, which are always female.

There was a tortoiseshell cat on her lap, fast asleep.

A cat came in, a large tortoiseshell cat with one eye gold, the other blue.

A plump tortoiseshell cat washes its face on a chair beside us.

A large tortoiseshell cat picked its way daintily across a desk piled with books.

She is a grey tortoiseshell cat with a distinctive short (about 2-inch) crooked tail.

Outside of North America they are usually called tortoiseshell cats or 'tortie-and-white'.

Chloe, their long-haired and tortoiseshell cat, suffered the same fate late last month.

Found a female tortoiseshell cat, approximately 4 years old spayed and microchipped.

A visible example of X chromosome inactivation is the tortoiseshell cat.

It regained consciousness just moments before the neighbor's tortoiseshell cat pounced.

First, what exactly is a tortoiseshell cat?

And it is probably true to add that no tortoiseshell cat has ever fathered a litter of kittens.

Down in the street a tortoiseshell cat was chasing a dead leaf', etc. etc.

All tortoiseshell cats are females, except in very rare cases where the cat has a disorder of the chromosomes!

Could this tortoiseshell cat give the cheerful interloper in this image a more evil look?

The markings on tortoiseshell cats are usually asymmetrical.

Pretty Hazel is a dark tortoiseshell cat who would love to spend winter evenings curled up by a family's fireside.

Approximately 1 in 3,000 calico/tortoiseshell cats are male.

Saash, a tortoiseshell cat, is the technical expert on the gates' hyperstrings.

Nearly all tortoiseshell cats are female.

Dolly - Tomboy's only daughter; a tortoiseshell cat.

Also called torties for short, tortoiseshell cats combine two colours other than white, either closely mixed or in larger patches.