Tortoiseshell Cat With Lovely Green Eyes Stock Photography

Tortoiseshell is a cat coat coloring named for its similarity to tortoiseshell material. Like calicos, tortoiseshell cats are almost exclusively female. Male tortoiseshells are rare and are usually sterile. Also called torties for short, tortoiseshell cats combine two colors other than white, either closely mixed or in larger patches. Not uncommonly there will be a `split face` pattern with black on one side of the face and orange on the other, with a dividing line running down the bridge of the nose. Like this one.