Bodega cats aren’t just cute; some in N.Y. also consider them working animals Kitty lovers started a petition to reclassify cats as necessary to tackle rodents at New York City bodegas.

Big and friendly . But what kind of cat will they become? One possibility is that the cats of the future will be larger than today’s felines. Continued contact with humans may also help cats ...

One New York City politician is pushing a law that would “fully legalize” bodega cats in the five boroughs. City Council member Keith Powers — who is running for Manhattan borough president ...

Spay-and-neuter clinics also contributed tissue after surgically sterilizing feral cats. The scientists sequenced the genomes from 200 out of 3,000 collected samples of orange cat DNA with non ...

Dr. Siracusa urged caution in interpreting whether the cats’ sniffing behavior relates to brain function. “The study did not prove that the right side of the brain is activated,” he said.

As with other mammals, female cats have two X chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y. Any male cat carrying the orange trait on its one X chromosome will be entirely orange.