Cats come in a wide variety of colors and coat patterns. Some breeds are more immediately recognizable than others. Torbie ...

Why, you ask? Torbies are mixed-breed cats, the offspring of a tabby cat and a cat with a tortoise-shell type pattern, or a tortie.

According to the rescue, in cats, almost all calicos, tortoiseshell, and tortoiseshell tabbies (torbies) are female. Torbies have the tabby stripes and characteristic “M” on their foreheads ...